Ice Packs and Hour-by-Hour Living ⭐

Ice Packs and Hour-by-Hour Living ⭐

🌼 Date: Friday, January 02, 2026

⚡ Energy: Low, sore, inward

❤️‍🩹 Status: Managing. Not gracefully, but effectively.

😔 Outlook: One hour at a time, ice packs prioritized.

Today Was Not a Great Day

Today was day three of the Granix shots, and it hit hard.

Severe bone pain — the kind that makes your body feel too heavy to carry itself. My knees and ankles took the worst of it. Standing made everything louder. Moving felt optional. Existing required planning.

I spent most of the day rotating between ice packs and the heating pad, camped out like it was my full-time job. For the record: I think ice is winning. Numbing the pain might be the trick here. Heat feels comforting, but ice feels effective — and today I needed effective.

I’ve already taken the maximum dose of Tylenol for a 24-hour period, so now the plan is simple:
survive until I can sleep… and then sleep until I can take more.

After my legendary 59-hour wakey-wakey spree, I’m now averaging about 5–7 hours of sleep a night. Each night seems to be about an hour shorter than the last, like my body is counting down to the next shot and getting impatient.

I’m supposed to give myself the Granix shot every 24 hours.
Confession time: I’ve been cheating and doing closer to 22 hours.

When the shakes and bone pain ramp up, waiting feels impossible.

Which is the cruel irony of all this — the shot is what causes the bone pain in the first place, but it’s also the thing that makes the shaking and pain calm down afterward. The growth factor tells my bone marrow to wake up and work harder, which is great for my white blood cells… and absolutely miserable for my skeleton.

At this point, I’ll take temporary relief without complaint.

I’ve also been taking extra Pepcid along with my nausea meds. Pepcid is a histamine blocker, and while it’s not a pain medication, it can help in situations like this because histamine plays a role in inflammation. Less histamine = less inflammatory signaling = slightly quieter pain. It’s not a miracle, but when your knees are screaming, even a small volume reduction matters.

Today wasn’t productive.
It wasn’t inspiring.
It wasn’t brave in a way that looks good on social media.

It was ice packs.
It was heat.
It was sitting still because standing hurt more.

And honestly? That was enough.

Today wasn’t about pushing through.
It was about staying put — and letting my body do the work it’s already doing.

💗 Tina —

One Badass Day at a Time