My Day to Day

Another common question that I get is how I am feeling day to day and what my day-to-day looks like.

My answer is that on the average day, I don’t feel well. But I also can usually function at a decently high level.

Almost every day, I wake up and I feel tired. But, I have enough energy to get up and move around. So, I get up, I get dressed, and I make myself something to eat. And then usually by the time that I do all of that, I feel pretty exhausted.

Normally, by about 11am, I am ready to lay down for a nap.

I usually take at least one nap a day and usually it is at least a couple of hours long.

And usually, when I wake up, I have several hours where I have a decent amount of energy and enough brain capacity and focus to get several things done.

On days that I don’t nap, I usually reach a point of the day where I can’t focus, I feel dizzy, and everything just starts to feel really complicated and confusing.

I also wake up with usually 1 or 2 ailments that I’m able to power through. Most days, I wake up and either have a headache or chest pain or both. But they usually hurt at such a level that it’s an annoyance but it’s not crippling.

A lot of days, I also have pain in my leg where my blood clots are dissolving. Many days, at some point during the day, I’ll have a stinging, burning sensation in my fingers or in my feet.

On days where I feel worse, I’ll have stinging and burning sensations or pains throughout my body.

Other slightly less common ailments that I have are sometimes, I have stinging and burning sensations in my breasts and sometimes, I have sharp pains like side stitches under my ribs.

On occasion, sometimes, my eyes will burn and sting. Sometimes, I get queasy and nauseous. Sometimes, I throw up. Sometimes, I have body aches.

Sometimes, I have something happen to me that at first I thought were heart palpitations but now I can only describe as feeling “out of phase.”

But again, most days, my head hurts my chest hurts, I have brief moments of brain fog, and I’m tired and that’s it.

Those are usually the days where if someone interacts with me, they say that I look okay and that I sound okay.

And it’s true, I am okay for the most part.

But, it also hurts because I also know honestly, I’m not okay and I wish that I was.

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