2002-10-31 - 4:31 p.m.
IT’S ALL IN HOW YOU LOOK AT IT
For the past two days, I’ve come home from work and napped for several hours. Staying awake long enough to make it through a work day has been a monumental task. Until last night, when Mr. Philately complained, to a lesser extent, of the headache, muscle aches, and other assorted pains and fatigue I also was having, I assumed that perhaps the stress of surgery had made the multiple sclerosis flare up a bit. “Hallelujah! I’m sick,” I said. “I feel much better.”
Day-Hay was puzzled. “Mom,” she pointed out. “That statement makes no sense.” I had to explain to her that physically I really didn’t feel much better at all but psychologically I did. Viruses, nasty as they can be, come and go. Viruses of the type I seem to have leave no lasting damage. I can give in to a virus because it is temporary.
Deciding I was acutely sick freed me to miss work today. While I desperately need to get things done because I have missed so much work this week, taking a day off to try to sleep off a virus usually pays off. When the MS flairs up, extra rest makes very little difference and I either need to gut it through or come up with a longer term plan. I didn’t post last night because once I decided I was sick, I just went to bed. It took me until now to post today because I slept most of the day.
Tomorrow, it looks like I will be enough better to re-join the world free from the fear that the fatigue will get worse. In fact, I expect that it will be better. I’ll go into work for a while even though I don’t normally work Fridays just to try to catch up. Then I’ll go with Day-Hay’s class on a field trip to a play. I like to volunteer for the field trips to plays. They usually are very easy to chaperone.
I’m sick. Is that bad? In a way but still, I’m grateful I’m just sick. It’s all in how you look at it.
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