REST and drop the guilt
Recently I have developed a virus and its has sent my asthma INSANE! I am constantly exhausted, my pain is so much worse than normal and everything that is ‘normal’ seems 10X worse!
My partner has developed the virus as well and keeps joking about how he now has it worse and is dealing with it better! I know he is kidding (his favourite hobby is winding me up!), but it has made me think about what other people think when throughout the year illness goes around everyone at work! I always feel like it takes about a month for me to fully get over any kind of illness whereas everyone else seems to get over it relatively quickly!
I always need to remember that I am already fighting illness, with a multitude of medication! This is a fine balance, almost like my body is walking across a tightrope and then BAM something else hits and you come flying off! My body doesn’t know how to cope with it, neither I nor my body have the resources. My fatigue gets so much worse! This is my body wanting to shut down and sleep in a way of coping with it - I may have woken up at 8:30, went to the Dr’s then fallen asleep again in the afternoon for THREE hours today! I still feel exhausted and I have been resting all day, I will still probably end up in bed soon!
To me this seems like a failure, a waste of a day, but, it is not. I need to remember every one of us is different, our bodies our different and they all respond differently. It is always worth remembering, that just everyone has their own battles they are fighting. Everyone recovers in their own time, every body recovers in its own way.