Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 37
In which pain and fatigue have begun to ease again, and hope has returned. Years ago, the chiropractic technique of Network Spinal Analysis was introduced to me by a friend who [...]
In which pain and fatigue have begun to ease again, and hope has returned. Years ago, the chiropractic technique of Network Spinal Analysis was introduced to me by a friend who [...]
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There's a question I'm sure most people who live with chronic illness know all too well: what's the price I will pay for this? I've been counting the cost this week, paying for every [...]
I see the cringe as I rise from my two hours' sitting – 'are you OK?' 'I am in pain' 'if there was only more that we could do ...' I hear the cry [...]
In which, ten days after I had started to emerge from the virus, I may actually, almost, be free. The sinus congestion had seemed to signal the turning of the virus, like [...]
It was a fog, thickly white, suffocating. It was an anvil or grand piano falling suddenly, heavily, from a snapped rope. It was a prison door closing out the light, the freedom. It was [...]
Sniffles, and a cotton wool head. Overwhelming desire to lie down and close my eyes. Muscles stiff, sore; limbs heavy. It is the season, so perhaps this is a virus? The days [...]
In recent Diary entries, I have moved from sorrow at what I was losing to the chronic fatigue, through taking significant steps forward into greater wellbeing, even while sometimes seemingly stepping momentarily backwards. In [...]
Less than a week after I reflected on some good energy, healthy practices and rhythms, and an apparent turning of a corner towards wellness, I was overcome with tiredness and slept a whole afternoon [...]
In which I appear to have taken further strides towards living well with chronic illness. I finished the stroke, stepped onto the step, and smiled, from deep within: I feel amazing. This [...]
Public speaking, performance, oral storytelling. This is my craft. I am good enough at it that others will listen to me and learn from me in order to develop their own skills and techniques. [...]
Living with chronic illness seems to me, today, to be like having automatic additives mixed in with every experience. By my calculations, I have three additives that compound the normal tiredness that [...]