The Evil Dex is becoming eviller. Or perhaps more cunning. As you already know if you obsessively follow every word I write, my doctor recently switched me to a lower dose of dexamethasone. I now take only 12 mg once a week, so my sleeping should be less disrupted. Right?
Well…not so much. The problem is that the effects of dex accumulate over time, so it becomes hard to predict exactly how it’s going to work. In my case, it takes 4-5 hours to kick in and lasts for about 36 hours. But I’m taking a lower dose! So on Friday I decided to try taking it in the morning. On the bad side, that meant it would be at full strength by bedtime. On the good side, it would be worn off completely by Saturday night.
So I took the dex in the morning and then took a double dose of sleep meds at bedtime. Remarkably, this had no effect. None. I was up all night and only barely a little drowsy. This accounts for the late night blogging (remember to subtract three hours when you look at the time stamps on my posts). The silver lining to this is that my experiment had extremely clear results, so next week I’ll go back to taking the dex at night.
So why the headline? You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I promised you pictures of our Canada goose babies. That turned out to be harder than I expected. I found them again once, but the pictures I took were pretty so-so. After that, they just weren’t around. But yesterday, since I was up at 6 am anyway, I figured I’d go out and see if they were active in the morning. And they were! So later this morning I’ll regale you with a photo album of adorable Canada goslings. Never say that this isn’t a full-service blog.
