Fatigue. Yes, I have said it before, but I will say it again... fatigue sucks!
I have spent the last week or more sleeping until 2pm... or 3, or 4pm... and still going to bed a few hours later. I have been so tired, my eyes will not focus, so I can only sort of see what I am writing! I know I am typing correctly (I usually use Dragon software), because there are no red lines under the blobs that are supposed to be words. This sleeping and fatigue-related visual response means no reading, no playing of small games, and not always even being able to tell what is going on on the big screen tv.
Add to my lack of hours in a day and my visual challenges, my fatigue makes my pain worse, especially around my rib cage and the backs of my legs, and when I walk, I am more likely to list to one side, or bounce off the walls/furniture/other people on my way to wherever I am going.
Most of the time, with fatigue this bad, I find that getting to where I am going is further complicated by the fact that all of my brain power is spent trying to stay upright and ignore pain spasms, and not enough brain power is saved for recollection of where I was going, let alone why. So, when I stop someplace, it may or may not be the place I was originally headed, and I certainly don't have a clue as to why I headed there. (Now people, I am sure you realize that I am talking about what I am doing in my own house. This is a description of today, within the confines of my own domicile.) While trying to get something accomplished today, I have instead started something like 7 or 8 projects (no kidding) and only finished one - just today. The fact that this has been going on for several days, and possibly more than a week, makes me appreciate my housemate/caretaker all the more.
And with that, folks, I am off to take more meds and go to bed! (Red line... glasses... they make the blob big enough to make out the fact that I did actually type what I wanted to type...I think)...
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