It’s a fun game that I play over and over where I am terrified that I’m a slacker and I actually could keep up with the healthy.
There is a special type of torture included in having a high achieving personality and a chronic illness.
For those not familiar with a chronic illness, there seems to be a cycle that we go through.
Stage 1: We feel good. We get excited.
Stage 2: We tell ourselves not to over do it, as we are overdoing it. We survive over doing it better than we thought we would. We continue to push ourselves.
Stage 3: We hit a wall.
Stage 4: We have to recover.
Rinse and Repeat.
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