HAWMC Prompt 18: Daily Schedule

I'm participating in WEGO Health's Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge (HAWMC) in April.

Today's challenge is to write a list of my daily routine from the moment I get up until the moment I go to bed.

My daily schedule depends very much on how I'm feeling. This is extremely frustrating for me! I've always been a to-do list sort of person. Before my accident, I would write out a daily and/or weekly to-do list. I still have lists (mainly because my memory seems to no longer work); but they're more open-ended, unless there's actually something scheduled (e.g., doctor appointments). It's difficult for me to gauge what I can actually accomplish versus what I want or need to accomplish in a day. I'm getting better at knowing that all tasks are going to take me longer than they used to. I can write a realistic to-do list for a day (a day with pain below migraine-level); but problems with pain interfere so often that I rarely do this anymore. 

A "good"/non-migraine day looks like this:

• Wake up; Brush teeth
• Check email; Read some articles in Google Reader
• Eat breakfast; Take meds
• Blog - read/write
• Eat lunch; Take meds
• Do a few things around the apartment (pick up, organize, etc)
• Watch TV/movie
• Eat whatever I can for dinner (poor appetite from meds)
• Blog - read/write
• Take meds; Snack
• Update health calendar/diary
• Brush teeth; Go to bed

* Jeremy and I walk together for 10-15 minutes, whenever I'm feeling well enough to (which hasn't been very frequently, lately).
** We sometimes play games (Yahtzee, Phase 10, Uno, Farkle, SkipBo, Chameleon) together.

Photo by matsuyuki

A bad/migraine day looks more like this:

• Wake up
• Brush teeth
• Eat breakfast; Take meds
• Have Jeremy give me a shot
• Lay around on the couch - watch a movie, try to rest/nap
• Eat whatever I can for lunch and dinner
• Check email and blog, if I feel up to it (definitely limited/not for very long)
• Take meds
• Update health calendar/diary
• Brush teeth
• Go to bed

I've been so blessed to have Jeremy around the apartment to help take care of me, especially since I've had trouble taking care of myself for a while. He cooks and takes care of a lot of the housework; though I love to help, when I'm able to. We enjoy doing our own thing (he plays computer games, I blog/write), but it's been nice to be able to spend so much time with him.