I went to bed at about midnight. I wasn't sleepy.
At 02:00 I awoke covered in crawling ants. They were all over me. I started slapping them and trying to get them off. They seemed to cover my entire body. I turned on the light, and there were no ants. But I could feel them everywhere. I wheeled into the bathroom to use the mirror. There were no ants. But I could feel them crawling all over me.
Now I was wide awake, and my heart was pounding. I went into the kitchen and turned on all the lights and got a small mirror to re check.
No ants.
I itched everywhere there was skin, and even places with no skin like my left leg. I sat calmly and tried to think the itching away. Nope, it was real.
I took a Tramacet, and popped out another in case I decided to take it later. I decide on a Robaxin also, because of the twitching and jerking. Now almost an hour later the itching is still there. Even my non existent left leg has the sensation of crawling ants.
But now I wonder if I need pain killers to deaden the nerves, or a Lyrica or Cymbalta . The itching is probably a withdrawal symptom from them.
This withdrawal symptom is because of drugs for PLP, from an amputation, because of cancer. So many facets of my life have changed because of Angiosarcoma.
I believe that people should be willing to accept the consequences of their actions. The consequence was cancer, but what was the precipitating action that launched the cancer? Always more questions than answers.
I just heard 2 gun shots. Sounded like a pistol. Not far away, but not to close either.
Hmm..Maybe a good time to clean my gun.
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04:15
My 9mm is now super cleaned and oiled. I am ashamed. It was so dirty and dry.
Now I don't know whether to try to sleep again, or just stay up. The Tramacet, Lyrica and Robaxin seemed to have calmed the itching. I fear the Lyrica did most of the cure.
I am to stupid now to work on my Arduino project. Yesterday I got the voice recognition unit to talk to the Arduino. Next is to change the voltage out of the Arduino to a voltage that my relay board can see.
I dug through the shed yesterday, and found all the boards and boxes I had built, and used, about 13 years ago to make my house voice activated. I had a desktop computer that could recognize different voice commands, and an analog to digital board to control eight separate lights and fans in the house.
Here is a picture of my old project. (minus the computer)
I want to do the same "voice controlling the house" thing now, but with 13 years newer technology.
I will use the same relay board. The lower blue board is the Arduino, and the upper board is the voice recognition unit. The small blue board on the right (that I bought yesterday) is a voltage changing board to change the Arduino output voltage into what the relay board needs for input.
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05:02
So this blog is about ants, guns, electronics, smart houses, pain, drugs, amputations, and Angiosarcoma.
Maybe I need some hot Horliks. then I'll try to sleep.
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