Hibernation - I need to - don't choose to - here's why.
Fatigue - everybody gets it when you over do things beyond your body's capacity. 'Chronic' is a word added to denote that it has lasted a long time and you get no let up from it, so it is always present.

I 'crashed' into this state in July, but I can now see that there had been a slow deterioration over many years to reach that low point.

I was not willing to accept this dramatic reduction in energy as 'old age'.

It is a state where a body's capacity to metabolise energy slows down to tickover.
It has many causes - poor nutrition, stress, toxin exposure are the main ones.These are things that everybody is exposed to - just part of living....

MargaretR

Laura's been learning the clarinet since September and she's coming on in leaps and bounds. She knows D E F G A and with those 5 notes you can play some pretty good tunes. The quality of the notes has improved in the last few weeks, too, and her playing sounds more mellow and controlled. She's chuffed to bits with herself, also, that she is learning to read music. I don't think that had occurred to her but it has now dawned on her that she knows what all those notes, rests, pauses and time signatures mean and where to apply them.

The other night she was having a little "jam session", after her formal practice, and as she tootled I realised she was playing the start of "Begin the Beguine". A bit of...

West Ender

Seems to have been nowt but problems lately! First of all problems with the drains, presumably caused by previous tenant's misuse of the facilities. 2 visits from the Drain doctor though, and it is now finally sorted. Now I'm actually looking forward to hanging my washing out in the morning, (sad or what!) rather than swilling the yard down several times a day! My wickle wabbit can now come out of her hutch.. she must have been going stir crazy, lol!

Repair man came to fix the cracked front window, and in the process of putting the new double glazed unit in, managed to smash it! so now we have the window boarded up until the 2nd new unit is ready. wonder what people are thinking when they go past..."just moved in and already...

Caz

I went to my first get-your-lungs-back-in-some-sort-of-shape exercise class today. It's at the Warrington Wolves R L F C Stadium which is massive and leases out parts of the building to the NHS, private functions, businesses etc. I'll be going on Tuesdays and Fridays until Christmas week.

Fridays it's 12 noon until 2 p.m. and I staggered in from the car park, clutching my mobile oxygen cylinder in it's smart little back pack, and sank on to a chair in the waiting area to recover. The thing is ridiculously heavy. I had parked in the designated car-park which said "For the use of NHS at Wolves patients only" but every single bay was a "disabled" one and - I'm not disabled. I resolved that, if I should get...

West Ender

Have had the flu for the last week ... wednesday downgraded it to a bad cold .... wednesday i had to go to the docs at 4.30 .... at 4.30 i was in bed!!!! Well thats where i was when i came round!!! Had another fit and my face is a mess. Have carpet burns that run the length of my nose, underneath my nose, under my eye and a big graze and bump on my forehead. I do make a lovely picture!!!! It hurts to smile, spuggie said the pic i sent him made it look like a mugger had got hold of me. At least he cant see my face in real life. Then he would do his nut in!!!

shillelagh