Yep, that’s right, I, Snooze Mackenzie, CFS warrior and worrier, accidentally went surfing on Monday! What, did I trip and somehow find myself on a floating board in the ocean? Well, no, it was a decision I made, one that was fun, but one that freaked me out as well and has had me on the foam roller twice a day since! Read on
Tag Archives: brain fatigue
Less crappy bad days
There’s been a shift in my fatigued state over the last month in that the bad days are definitely better. By this I mean that they are getting less frequent and less severe, but they are also getting harder to deal with. Read on
Christmas with Chronic Fatigue
Well, it’s been and gone, the awesomeness that is Christmas. I’m a Christmas nut, I walk around tunelessly singing, bake constantly, plan my gift giving meticulously and spend hours gazing at our decorated Christmas tree, sniffing deeply to get that Christmasy smell. Read on
“Please notice when you are happy”
I’ve come across this Kurt Vonnegut quote twice in one week and in light of some crappy fatigue-related things I thought I’d better write about it. The full quote is “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” Read on
Pushing and Crashing (and going round the bend)
I’ve been a bit absent from this blog these last two weeks as I have got in to a nasty little habit of pushing too hard and then crashing. And when I crash, I crash hard and don’t get out of bed, don’t eat, don’t move, sweat through my clothes and in between epic naps lie facedown on my pillow slobbering Read on
Mental (adjustments)
I’ve been having an interesting time inside my head these last 15 months trying to wrangle all the scary thoughts about fatigue and adjust to this much-altered lifestyle. The hardest thing I’ve had to do is accept that I can’t do everything my “old self” or “healthy self” could do, and that sucks. Read on
Fatigue Memes
So the other day a good friend was visiting me (who understands all too well the shitfullness of fatigue, having had it in high school) and we spent a very enjoyable afternoon creating fatigue memes. Some got a bit bitter and twisted, some were very dark, but most made us laugh. Here are a few that tickled our fancy… Read on
Calculator says no: the mathematics of fatigue
Since finishing high school I’ve rarely used the complex mathematics I studied. While I certainly have never felt the need to find, oh say, the anti-differentiation of sin, or some such horror, over the past fatigued year I have developed my own mathematical formulas… Read on
Due to intense brain fog all thoughts have been grounded today
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but every time I try to my brain checks out on me with brain fog. Brain fog, or “cognitive dysfunction” as the doctors call it, basically means that you become a stupid person incapable of primary-school level spelling and arithmetic. Read on
a snoozie life 