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June 12 2005 (Sunday)

Whoosh. I am SO tired.

Last night my left foot/leg cramped.

We're not talking a cramp in the muscle for a few moments and then it disappears. Oh, no. We're talking the
tendon in the bottom of the foot becomes an iron cable and twists the toes and foot into an unnatural position
and then stays that way...spreading pain through the leg as it does so, along with the incredible pain in the
foot.

And it doesn't go away. It moves in waves of pain that leave me crying, rubbing it in an attempt to massage
the cramp away.

It just laughed evilly and faded a teeny bit, giving me hope before it cramped again with a vengence.

I think I screamed.

Ed immediately grabbed my foot and began massaging, his face drawn as I began to howl. The cramped
tendon moved like a living thing, twisting my foot and then almost fading away, letting me breathe for a
moment before wrenching back to drawn iron cables, causing me to again yell.

Painful. Really painful. I have a pretty high pain threshold from everything I've had to go through in life but
these damn foot cramps...

I get them once in a while but this one was particularly bad. No...amazingly bad.

They're usually derived from a lack of potassium in my body. Usually a dangerous lack. That or calcium.

Or both.

This can occur in several ways. Tears - electrolye loss in that. Over exertion without compensating for it.
Boosting my Prednisone level. High stress.

I can say that I did over exert myself over the last week several times. To the point that I was panting for a
good long time and felt completely worn out. I'm guessing that I may have lost too much potassium at that
point.

*sigh* I never even thought about it. I mean, I take extra potassium from your regular joe, anyway, just
because I'm on Prednisone, which leeches potassium from your body.

I'll be taking extra potassium for a few days. I could always go to the hospital, let them take a blood test, see
how low it is and have them give me some extra fast acting potassium...but the stress incurred in just going
to the damned ER is enough do drop my electrolyte levels. *sigh*

So it's stay home, take extra potassium, don't DO anything, and wait for my levels to slowly rise. It should
take about three days.

I'm very weak. I feel like crud.