FINALLY I seem to be getting over a truly nasty virus that attacks soul as well as body<\/p>\n
This has been an extraordinarily unpleasant experience. I had a fairly normal cold for a few days starting last Friday and kept working through it as I always do while coughing and hacking away. Then on Monday, I started feeling this incredible and unremitting fatigue. It particularly attacked my hands and arms. I couldn\u2019t lift my arms above my shoulders without feeling exhausted. And my arms and hands would get tired after two minutes of typing, keeping me my favorite thing to do with my clothes on, writing.
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\nI\u2019ve always had a lot of energy. When I was five years old my grandmother offered me a nickel if I could sit still in a big chair in the lobby of our hotel for five minutes. It was the longest five minutes of my life. Even when I\u2019m not quite focused in the morning\u2014I wake slowly\u2014I always know that later in the day I\u2019m going to have a burst of energy and feel like I can take on the whole world. Even when I\u2019m tired at night\u2014and some nights I just don\u2019t get tired\u2014I know that I\u2019m going to have a burst of energy the next day.<\/p>\n
When I\u2019ve had colds or even a bad flu, my experience has been of just getting tired more easily and needing frequent rest and a nap or two. There have been times when I\u2019ve slept and slept\u2014and have enjoyed the pleasure of lingering in bed and resting. What makes this different is that while I\u2019m sleeping a bit more than usual, I\u2019m not especially sleepy. I\u2019ve never had illness that left me awake and thinking hard about all that I want to do but unable to work because I was physically exhausted from the beginning to the end of the day. I\u2019ve never spent days with little or no hope of my energy returning. And this weird fatigue in my arms and hands made doing anything\u2014driving, taking food out of the refrigerator, turning the lock in my front door, opening a can of soda\u2014feel like a difficult chore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve had illnesses in which I felt that the fire inside me was burning lower than usual or needed more tending than I\u2019m accustomed to giving it. I\u2019ve never had any illness that made me feel like the fire was out.<\/p>\n
I thought that maybe I was having a side effect of a medicine I\u2019ve been taking. But that doesn\u2019t appear to be the case. And a colleague of mine has something similar. So it seems as if I\u2019ve been bitten by some unusual virus.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else had this recently? Anyone have these symptoms? Maybe I\u2019ve been lucky never to experience this before. I sure hope this is not a harbinger of things to come. Is this what extreme old age feels like? If so, then I hope I die before I get old.<\/p>\n
It finally seems to be lifting. I\u2019m not quite there yet. Typing this short piece has tired me out. But I think I\u2019m getting there and I\u2019ve never been as grateful for the return of good health as I am right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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