Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 45
A friend recently shared this Banksy piece of art. I resisted. For a start, I am not 'tired', we are well beyond that. More, I am an expert at resting, one need only read [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 44
My friend encouraged me to write lament through this experience of worsening Fatigue. It is a positive sign that I am writing, for writing is a path to healing for me. When I cannot [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 43
I was managing the Fatigue quite well. I had energy to last through entire days, I was starting to swim stronger and longer, I was clear-headed, writing, thinking, creating, with productivity and even a [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 42
I have cried a lot in recent days. I have cried a lot these past five months, to be honest, but most of that has been for Dad, who died, though I still don't [...]
Choking
A lament for Australia Summer 2020 Where do we begin with this great wall of fire or that fire storm or the hungry angry monster? Where do we begin? How do we enfold them [...]
Diary of Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 41
It's been a while between diary entries. I haven't had many words, or haven't been able to put shape to them for any helpful contribution to our conversation here. I have been tired. I [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 40
Ready in three - one, two ... One. She sits beside me and simply with her presence says, put them down for a moment; put them all down, those burdens you are [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 39
I am back in Canberra, back to the rhythms and practices that are helping me regain good health. The treatment I receive with a chiropractor tends to open one's emotions. So, returning [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 38
Precisely at the moment we thought we’d found hope and a way forward into better health, along comes another challenge to send me several steps backwards again. People talk about what an [...]
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 [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 36
Reader, I am not well. And yet I have had a productive day. Over the weekend, the fatigue grew worse again, tiredness, pain, fogginess in the brain. Ugh. Then Monday [...]
Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 35
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 [...]
