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A Different Kind of Challenge

         Today I had my typical pains. Knees, arms, lower leg tightness. Tomorrow could be another story.
         I'm scheduled for minor outpatient surgery Wednesday morning at 10:30. To take the remaining signs of a cyst off the back of my neck. It had been drained about 2 months ago, and has been shrinking. Time to remove the last of it. It's being done with a LOCAL anesthetic, an option which I chose. The challenge? Staying perfectly still, laying on my stomach, for 30 minutes while it's removed. Normally during the day I don't have to stay in one position that long. And usually, even if I otherwise could, the Fibro pains won't let me. I'm going to bed as soon as I post this, so I can get about 8 1/2 hours of sleep before tomorrow morning. Remember what I said about the symptoms being stronger when we're tired? I'm getting that sleep to make sure I'm as awake as I can be when they're doing that. And I'm going to take a prescription version of Aleve before I leave the house as well, to help minimize the pain I could end up with in my legs and / or knees from lack of motion during that half hour.
         Here goes nothing. I'll check in tomorrow sometime and let you know how it went.