Fat Bunny

Tag: chronic illness

  • Lab Work…

    It’s been a long week, and one of those especially difficult ones where I am forced to keep the fixed grin of functioning on. I was doing pretty well until about lunchtime when the wheels came off completely. Nothing dramatic just the proverbial straw on a camel thing. To be honest it wasn’t going to…

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    How Long Do You Need?

    About a year apparently, or that is how long it took to go from maximalist bordering on hoarding to a not quite minimalist, but definitely under control regular amount of stuff type person. After a few years of chronic illness, and several more of untreated clinical depression the world decided to have a pandemic. What…

  • F.I.N.E…

    I am, and then I’m not. Every time I go to farm I’m convinced I’m getting better, and it’s no too bad this time… then a few hours later I’m a drained mess trying to avoid closing my eyes because of the flashbacks. Maybe I stood in the wrong room too long? Maybe it’s the…

  • Sigh…

    A few days before Christmas and my doctor has pulled me off half my medication to see if the treatment is causing other problems. So despite all my rage I am still just a rat having weird symptoms. Now I’m just killing a few hours till I can either get a cat scan today, or…

  • Now Swallow!

    Another day another test. It’s amazing the list of things you can find wrong with you, that aren’t actually the things causing the problems you were worried about. Anyway blessed be the public health care system and all who make her work. I’ll toast you all with this gritty cup of mint flavored goop.

  • The Gall…

    Todays round of Doctors poking me, draining me has pointed the towards “maybe a gallbladder problem”, so I’ll be getting up at 5am to go get a dose of radioactive isotopes, and scanned around the middle. It’s nice that they are all taking an interest, but it would be nice if they could either fix…

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    I Hate the Spoon Theory…

    The spoon theory if you don’t know is popular when explaining how chronic illness etc limits what you can do, usually to people who say things like “you don’t look sick”. Spoon theory explains what it’s like to live with a fatiguing chronic illness. You start the day with a set amount of ability to…