Muddling through the Mire

-
This morning when I woke up, it seemed as though it would be an easier day. The ambient temperature was pleasant enough and my WPI score wasn't too high. 

I managed to have a shower and get ready to go in to work. It started well. We did some running about town on work errands and go the to office in good time, where I started to get some things done. I think I even got a lot accomplished, although I began to feel over stimulated when we had to work with numbers and make sure out takings from the recent fundraiser were balancing. 

Numbers always hurt my head a bit, I find them daunting and many a time in school the subject of Mathematics reduced me to tears. 

Interestingly, this trouble only began after I sustained that Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Hmmm, I wonder if there's a connection...

Anyway, we muddled through and got things done, although the day passed by in a flash and my back and head began competing in their bit to gain my attention. I tried to pay them no mind.

It was a good day, but I was glad to be home. 

By the end of the work day I felt as though I had been hit by a bus, and I don't even want to think about what that WPI would be now. 

I have also noticed that its not only the WPI that is affected by the colder weather, but since the pain symptoms have increased, so too have the other symptoms that seem to come hand in hand with Fibromyalgia. 

The IBS which has lift me alone for the most part, has made it more important than ever to be careful of what I eat, and the brain fog has started to spend more time surrounding my thoughts than it did a year ago.

Its an odd sensation feeling as though one is thinking through a mist, with time slowing down and the words people say to you not slowing to match the pace of your thoughts. 

I sometimes think it makes me very difficult to communicate with.

I am looking forward to when my cognition improves, I know that will come with the summer, or even the spring. 

In the spring I will also be able to start with light exercise again, which is something I have been missing. 

It really amazes me how much of an impact the colder weather has on my body.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Winter Has Come

-
Having spent only just less than half of my life as an invalid, after sustaining a head injury which left me in a chronic state of pan, fatigue, brain fog and more. I could never have imagined coming to this chapter of my life. When Covid 19 took the world by storm, I had just begun to experience better health and sustained periods of energy and reduced base line pain. I had just begun to step out into the world and discover life at the age of 28 I was finally finding my feet, right before the rug was pulled out from under most us.  When lockdown was lifted and churches began to meet again in my town, I began to meet with my bible study group and was introduced to the first chapter of the rest of my life. I met my husband in those first months after lockdown, which opened up so many chapters that lie ahead. My Husband works for a local Non Profit organization, which provides food parcels to those members of our community who are unable to feed themselves. Jobs have become increasin...
Read more

Choices.

-
There are many facets to the yachting lifestyle. Putting weather aside there exists a list of unpleasant experiences that are avoidable. You don't like feeling cramped and confined with too many others? You want a boat big enough to give that space. You enjoy your privacy? There are beautifully engineered rigging solutions where you with perhaps a loved one, cat and dog are enough to manage a blue water cruiser designed for short-handed sailing. Concerned about safety? That question has an answer in two parts. Firstly, most of staying safe lies in the decisions that you as skipper make. Get experience. Study. Get some more experience. You need to be able to shunt trains of thought as easily as a railway engineer. You should never lose sight of the big picture as you focus on a detail. Remain aware of everything that is happening and everything that could happen. Secondly the design and quality of the vessel you sail is pivotal. Make sure that the marine engineer that birthed your c...
Read more

Summing up the week

-
The last two days have been particularly foggy in the brain department.  My cognitive function has been iffy at best, although I have managed to get some menial tasks done. It's odd, when I'm unable to think very clearly, my creativity seems to rise up and I can work on some graphic designs, which is really nice, apparently one doesn't need too much logic or critical thought to pile some pretty pictures together.  Although, I definitely shouldn't be in charge of heavy machinery or life altering decisions. I know that I promised to wrap up the week with an overview of my WPI and SS, so here we are.  Each time the weather got warmer, my symptoms were reduced, it was quite interesting to see how direct the correlation was.  The Widespread Pain Index averaged around 16 for most of the week, reaching a full 19 points when the weather was 3°C I'm one day, and coming all the way down to 13 when the weather reached a high of 22°C (The temperature at the time of recording th...
Read more