Reflecting on CFS

Hello again, everybody! Boy, is it just me or did this past week go by awfully fast? It seems like I just wrote my last post. Speaking of time flying by, it doesn’t seem right in two months it will be October 2nd. That means unstable weather and the worst time of the year for CFS, at least for me.

Speaking of which, I was at my monthly Chiropractors’ appointment today and he asked me on behalf of someone else with CFS what the trick to living with it is. I was at a bit of a loss since I have been living with it for so long, so I told him I just got used to it. I adjusted to it day by day. All I can do is take it one day at a time and do the best I can. I do what I can do when I can do it, and when I need to rest, I rest and that’s all there is to it, I told him.

Looking at your life realistically, that’s all you can do. You don’t have control over your body anymore, but rather your body has control over you; hard to admit, yes, but it is the reality of CFS. You have to adjust to what your body will let you do and just roll with the punches, and there are punches. You have to find a way to adapt to it and fit into this new way of life. You don’t have a choice. Oh, sure, you can use the little bit of energy you have to be angry, but will it get you anywhere? No, it will just exhaust you, and for what? Why? It doesn’t get you anywhere. I have been there many times, and it’s never gotten me anywhere but physically and mentally miserable. On the other hand, like I have said many times, we are human beings, not saints, and anger is part of the human condition. It sounds contradictory, I know, and it is. However, life is full of contradictions. It’s easy to get caught up in that. It’s the evil one working, and he works so insidiously many of us don’t know what is happening. I don’t, anyway.

Somehow, though, we have to live our lives. So, we live it.

I don’t know if I have ever written about this before, but there is something known as the story of the spoons. It goes something like this; you are given twelve spoons of energy per day. If you get up, take a shower, make your breakfast, eat your breakfast, do your breakfast dishes, and put them away, you have already used six spoons. That is half of them. See where this is going? Somehow, you have to adjust your life to this. Somehow, you have to create a, “new normal,” based on this. Yes, this is a tall order.

To wrap up, CFS will not fit into our lives, so we have to find a way to fit in to CFS. You will do a lot better all the way around if you accept this as part of your life. You have to survive somehow, and you will. You are more creative than you realize, and you will find yourself doing what you have to do.

Well, that’s it for this week. God Bless you all, stay safe, and I will, “see” you next week!

Beckie

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