I worked on a new post for about an hour and a half yesterday and when I tried to publish it, I got a message saying “not valid.”  No idea why.  Then I made the mistake of clicking on the “help” button and “poof” the whole thing disappeared!  I laughed about it later when I realized the irony of the situation….I had included some info from a lesson I did for a ladies’ class last week about The Blessing of Trials….I guess I have more material for that now! lol

I’m still dealing with quite a few side effects from the prednisone.  I went down another level on my tapering on Friday and seem to have had an increase in side effects  when I change my dose.  I image that’s just part of the process.  I had pretty bad headaches over the weekend and mood swings, irritability (tried to be nice or at least not say much during that part 🙂  The good thing was that after 6 weeks of only sleeping for 4 or 4 1/2 hours a night, I did some catching up and was able to sleep more this weekend.  I thought that meant I was at a level of the drug where it might not affect my sleep so much, but last night I slept from 11:30pm until 2:30am, then couldn’t sleep at all until around 5:30am or 6am.  Then I slept until 10:30am!  I guess it will all straighten out in the end. Sleep is so elusive right now,  I feel like I need to let myself sleep whenever I can.  My face got even more puffy (who thought that was even possible!) but it is all worth it in the scheme of things.  In a few more weeks my body will be off the drugs and back to normal and the improvement in my hearing, although not a complete recovery, has made an enormous difference in my ability to function.  Worth every second of the side effects.  I’m thankful.