Ack its been a whole week

I have good news and bad news.  Good news first.  I have been working extraordinary hours (12 -15 hours/day seven days / week) on a start-up business project that will hopefully pay off handsomely.  The really good news is that I have been able to work those hours on a sustained basis at all.  You see up til around Christmas I had been unable to work anything like a full week consistently.  My sleep disorders were kicking my butt on a regular basis, leaving me in a serious state of sleep deprivation.  Yeah I thought big deal myself, so what if you miss a few hours of sleep here or there.  Actually I was averaging 3 to 4 hours of restless sleep per night on good nights.  I also discovered that in addition to exhaustion, advanced sleep deprivation has some nasty mental side effects.  Mood swings, short temper & forgetfulness (really bad -early Alzheimer's level memory loss)  The reason I mention it is as things have improved these last few weeks I have started to recognize how bad things had gotten.  (It is much harder to gauge the degree of performance loss/ability when your capacity to notice is diminished as well.)  

Things are much better now & I sincerely hope that I have reached a point in the healing process that I can mark steady improvement from this point forward.  I am certainly making it a priority in any case.  But it also means that I have to clean up the damage done to my business & the financial mistakes that have to be corrected.  (one of the motivations for the long hours)  

The bad news is that in my single minded pursuit of meeting deadlines on the new project I have endangered my progress on my other goals.  Dealing with the injuries & feeling bad generally I broke down & went to doc today.  (something than I will usually clean toilets to avoid) but it turns out that I had a sinus infection that merited treatment.  10 glorious fun filled days of antibiotics and nasal spray, oh joy.  Sinus infections get my attention more rapidly these days because I use a CPAP machine to help me breathe while I sleep.  If you are stopped up you either don't get enough oxygen or you blow crap into your lungs, putting yourself at risk for other more serious problems.  

On the whole I have managed to keep to a reasonable diet with only a few lapses to comfort foods.  But I have not been exercising, other than 10 -15 flights of stairs per day @ office.  Just enough to keep me even, not enough for progress.  Hopefully now that I am armed with all the prescription goodies & with the bulk of my part of the project completed I can resume my quest for optimal health.

Keep up the good work Jon.  Those reminders do get through & I appreciate the effort.  BTW congrats on the race this weekend, sorry we couldn't make it over on Sunday.  I felt horrible & still had work that had to be completed for a Monday morning deadline.  Keep us on the list we will make it over there soon. ;-)

Oh well I have to go squirt some junk up my nose & try to get some sleep.  I hate insomnia, I might treat myself to sleeping pill tonite.