Hello from the land of Chronic Fatigue
Sep. 11th, 2018 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronHi! I realised yesterday that I haven't actually read Dreamwidth since before BiCon, which is a bit rubbish. I tried to catch up via my "Reading" page and it only went back as far as 26th August. So do please let me know of any events or changes in your life which I should know about. Also, tell me about BiCon which I was sorry to miss.
I am back at university, for some value of "back" which involves my working entirely from home on data analysis and going in to meet my PhD supervisor and Disability Mentor once a week. I had to write a chapter of my thesis and get that submitted to the Thesis Committee, and then have an exam on it (that was last Thursday). And then the day after I had to go and prove to the government that I'm still disabled (PIP Assessment).
So it's not really surprising that my chronic fatigue has been awful for three days. I have required 12+ hours of sleep, and woken up feeling like I haven't slept at all. Yesterday I was so exhausted that I couldn't really hold my own head up without support, which I have to say is a very unpleasant feeling.
Today I woke up with a worryingly large amount of energy. I got breakfast, found we were LITERALLY out of spoons, filled the dishwasher, cleaned the toilet, and that was it - 40 minutes later I'm sitting here feeling wobbly and ready for bed again. And that was even knowing that I needed to go carefully and conserve my energy, which was why I wasn't bounding up and down the stairs with laundry. Stupid illness.
I am back at university, for some value of "back" which involves my working entirely from home on data analysis and going in to meet my PhD supervisor and Disability Mentor once a week. I had to write a chapter of my thesis and get that submitted to the Thesis Committee, and then have an exam on it (that was last Thursday). And then the day after I had to go and prove to the government that I'm still disabled (PIP Assessment).
So it's not really surprising that my chronic fatigue has been awful for three days. I have required 12+ hours of sleep, and woken up feeling like I haven't slept at all. Yesterday I was so exhausted that I couldn't really hold my own head up without support, which I have to say is a very unpleasant feeling.
Today I woke up with a worryingly large amount of energy. I got breakfast, found we were LITERALLY out of spoons, filled the dishwasher, cleaned the toilet, and that was it - 40 minutes later I'm sitting here feeling wobbly and ready for bed again. And that was even knowing that I needed to go carefully and conserve my energy, which was why I wasn't bounding up and down the stairs with laundry. Stupid illness.
