Diary of a Chronically Exhausted Vicar. Episode 24 (Lent Reflection 2)
Back in March, I had this idea that I would write a Lent reflection each week of the season. However, here we are, closing out week 5, and this is only the second of [...]
Back in March, I had this idea that I would write a Lent reflection each week of the season. However, here we are, closing out week 5, and this is only the second of [...]
Contemplation Corner Holy Solitude. That’s the name of a book I got to inspire my reflection this Lenten season. (Holy Solitude, Heidi Haverkamp) With characters from biblical stories and from the history of religious [...]
Pain. So much pain. Have I run a marathon? Been hit by a bus? No. I have chronic exhaustion, or my doctor calls it fibromyalgia, and it’s flared up. Again. First, I [...]
I wrote last about adjusting the rhythms of my daily life, for the new circumstance brought about by this exhaustion. I have had to adjust my expectations about life in this new city, too [...]
It's been a while between diary entries. I had another infusion of iron at Christmas - the 12 month supply injected into my blood stream last June only lasted six. I had a couple [...]
I checked in with the GP this week, and it was a worthwhile visit. I'd been frustrated again over the weekend with the fatigue quickly following any activity. I felt that very little progress [...]
I have entered the tension zone: feeling a little better and tempted to do the things, yet still finding the doing of things to be exhausting beyond reasonable expectation. This morning I [...]
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, [...]
Catalogue of feeling. Foggy. My mind cannot see, cannot think clearly. My mouth speaks only slowly, slightly slurred, sounding vague. Tired. Goes without saying, I suppose, with this diagnosis. It is a [...]
Three days into two weeks of enforced rest, I have achieved a lot. A lot of sleep, that is. I have completed a jigsaw puzzle, too. Done some cross stitch, watched some [...]
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 which I get moving on my house furnishing project, think about how to get me moving again, and then take it a little bit too far. I decided it was time [...]