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Wretched night last night. Took an antihistamine because I was sneezing in yesterday's unseasonable temperatures. Took the regular muscle relaxant for low back pain. Made me wait till midnight, yawning, to avoid 6 a.m. wakings. Warmed my beanbags and crept into my cozy duvet nest and Did. Not. Sleep. Could not sleep. Turned on light after two hours of this, read some more of InterestingTimes, turned off light, lay down. Know I slept some because I rolled out of a dream into blank-eyed wakefulness at 5 and finally got up at 6 anyway.

Went to get staples out. Incision started bleeding with the first three or four. Apparently the edges aren't lined up properly, though there's stitches underneath keeping things together. Sight is not as grisly as ohh that hernia repair back in '04 but knee is soggy swollen and he kept poking it. Anyway, he left a bunch of staples in and said come back in a few days, which shall do. Then they put sterile sticky tape over each staple and gauze pads over those and paper tape over those, which is fine but that paper surgical tape doesn't stick very well and I know it will come off as soon as I start doing my exercises. Luckily I have a plethora of knee braces (and how odd not to be wearing them 24/7 as I have for the last however many years) so one of them is now holding everything in place.

But the rest of the day was a washout, of course. Cold front coming through with high winds meant every joint ached, and in spite of plunging temps I'm still sneezing. Napped in the early evening and shall hope for sweet deep sleep tonight.