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Today is Wednesday. I haven’t left the house except to run an errand here and there since Friday. Every morning I have been feeling tired and nauseous. I usually start feeling better in the late afternoon. Thankfully, Ann Marie has been here the past few days to help me get some stuff done.
The days that I feel nauseous it makes it really hard to do stuff around the house. Once I get up and start moving around I feel sick. The key seems to be to keeping horizontal with an ice pack on my head. It sucks. I hate not being able to go outside and go for a run or hike up Camelback Mountain. I am going to try to go to the Village over the next couple of days to sit on the recumbant bike. I have got to get some sort of exercise. I feel so lackadaisical and I’m not sure what to do to get out of this rut! I think a vacation would definitely help.
I can’t wait for my sister to get down here. Maybe that will help. I think part of it is loneliness, depression, and just being sick. The other part is just being lazy. I used to be on the go all of the time. You would never catch me at home. Now I’ve become such a homebody. I do have to say though I have gotten tons of stuff done around the house. It sucks not having a guy around to help me fix things. There are so many little things that I have had to call to get serviced. Money just starts bleeding out of me. $100 here, $200 there. It never stops.
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Hi Melissa - I'm not a doctor, and I don't play one on EmpowHer, but I have a good idea of what's causing what you've diagnosed as " Lackadaisical Rut " and what you can do to "treat" it. You see, I have the same "disease" myself. When you're an active, assertive, independent and always on the go person - and you get slowed down by both illness and cancer treatments - it's very hard to accept the new pace as "normal" or even okay. I know that I tend to judge what I'm able to do right now against what I was able to do in the past, and it sounds like you do the same. Well, it took me a while to realize that I'm not being fair to myself when I do that and I'm trying to find ways to develop some new standards for what's "normal" for me now instead of using old benchmarks. I totally get why you described yourself as "lazy" in your post, but you are anything BUT lazy and you're getting an awful lot done these days, including writing your blog posts, handling your remodeling project, undergoing treatment, keeping up with the many aspects of daily life, and more. One thing that could help would be to accept that you're going to be spending more of your time inside and find some ways to develop an indoor exercise program that you would enjoy. Is that the ideal thing to do? Heck no. Is it what you used to do? Heck no. Is it making the most of today's reality and the new normal? That's something only you can answer, but I hope you'll give it a try, and give yourself credit for all the stuff you ARE getting done. I'd love to know your thoughts on this.
January 22, 2010 - 5:39pmTake care, Pat
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