Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 17
While my communities gather for worship on this sunny spring Sunday morning - I can hear them singing next door - I continue at home on orders of complete rest. This week, [...]
While my communities gather for worship on this sunny spring Sunday morning - I can hear them singing next door - I continue at home on orders of complete rest. This week, [...]
So here we go again. I thought I was getting better. I thought we had identified the problem. Glandular fever, low iron. Six weeks of tonsillitis. Small hiccough. I woke a few [...]
In my work as a minister, I need to be present and available for others. I preside at community gatherings, participate in administrative and pastoral councils and committees, I listen to individuals and hold [...]
I've been back from my four week round the world trip for two weeks now, and have plunged straight back into life in the parish. By the end of the four weeks, [...]
In which I somewhat unexpectedly fall in a heap. Again. Don’t worry, I think it is actually more an everyday tiredness, brought on by three weeks of travel and emotional upheaval of [...]
Travelling in the season of recovery from glandular fever, has its ups and downs. I have found the joy of being back in Edinburgh gave me energy in the first days I [...]
In which I travel to the Northern Hemisphere. All the things had me exhausted last week, so that Friday all I could do was rest, checking emails because I had handed over some [...]
So I’ve had the diagnosis: glandular fever and low iron. I’ve had the iron infusion. To be honest, nothing much has changed. There have been some days this past week when I [...]
In which I receive some answers. The results of the blood tests are in, and it turns out I've had glandular fever this past month. Which explains the feeling ill, the glands [...]