Here I am! Raising my white flag and giving up on school work for the evening. I've spent the last two hours watching crap TV and snuggling with my pooch.
Each day is a new challenge, but I think all of us with chronic conditions can relate to that. I never know what is going to happen next, so it is best to be alert and on my toes... always ready to say "screw this" for now and to take care of me when the disease wants my attention.
My field placement is interesting in the fact that each day I go in, I stare some of my fears about this disease in the face. Wheelchairs, chronic illness, disease, disability... it's all there calling for me to put my neurosis aside and get to helping those seniors who need me. I see there comes a time when we all will deteriorate some, I am just facing my mortality sooner than some, but it is also exposing me to some information that some won't learn in their entire lifetime.
By Wednesday, I am in a lot of pain, and certainly ready to take a recovery day, but that can't happen until Friday.
One day at a time.
