ALT: colour photograph of male holding lip open to show mouth ulcer
I'm not sure why, but I'm more prone to biting my lip when crashed. It swells. I bite it again. Mouth ulcers soon join the party. Antiseptic mouth wash helps, but no doubt I'll bite again before gets chance to heal.
@AndrewGiffordphotography Sorry you're dealing with this. Mouth ulcers are quite irritating. I used to get a lot of them due to my toothpaste being a source of irritation (above and beyond any accidental bites or abrasions).
I somehow avoided getting infected with COVID for all these past four years, but this week unexpectedly it hit me after all - and that while being inoculated multiple times. Oh well, they say that the inoculations keep the more severe symptoms at bay.
Still, this feels like a very bad flu, I have been in bed for two days, feeling delirious in the beginning but just nauseous and dizzy now, accompanied by t
@alien Oh heck Eric. One important suggestion to bear in mind -- please don't try to force an early recovery by doing too much exercise, for at least a month, because that seems to increase the chance of Long Covid complications. Be gentle with yourself! Very best wishes 🖖
On the uses and disadvantages of historical comparisons for life by #MarciShore. 2020.
"We learn that those people who maintain an uncanny moral clarity regardless of all conditions and those who take some sadistic pleasure in harming others are both outliers. Most people, most of the time, behave in a way shaped by the social situation in which they find themselves."
Years before I learned of Christine Miserandino’s “Spoon Theory” (https://butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/), we were staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Providence, RI. They received a donation of flatware from a manufacturer for the House kitchen and offered the old flatware to any of us who could use it. We brought some random pieces home, which we have been using since. In pruning our flatware collection, now that it is just me and my spouse at home, I ran across this Wm Rogers Mfg Co silverplate spoon and cleaned it up. (Note: My spouse thinks that the spoon was around before our stay at the Ronald McDonald House. They are probably correct, but I’m sticking with my memory, since I was never aware of the mystery spoon’s existence before, or I have lost all memory of it. Isn’t confabulation grand?)
Now that I have joined the ranks of the spoonies myself, I figured I needed a physical symbol for my metaphorical spoons, and I’ve decided this is it. I want to share the image with my fellow humans dealing with chronic illness and disability.
Should you find yourself running low on spoons, please feel free to remember that this one is always out there somewhere. I recommend keeping it in mind as a spare and only using it for things that will recharge you: getting yourself to bed, making some food for yourself, and other self-care.
Always keep an extra spoon for self-care, no matter how hectic the day.
Sick talk. One of the most frustrating things with ME/CFS is that I have (brag alert, sorry) so much unrealised potential; and a million ideas for music, planning, writing, reading, programming, design, 3D, carpentry, business, workouts... long list. But even a half-baked synth demo can drain me for a week. Or a year.
I sometimes wish I was a drone with no ideas or qualifications, content with endless daytime tv in a tracksuit. But no, I'd rather die banging my head into the wall.
@emmaaum We do. But it can be very hard to get that point across to people who are lucky enough to be healthy – or simply blinded by ideological dogmas.
@terjefjelde indeed. i count my blessings that the scottish government was able to get enough control to do it differently and fear the day they lose that control
Does anyone here with ME/CFS have flare ups of what I can only describe as flu-like after 'too much' exercise/running out of spoons. I'm wondering if that's what's happened to me this time.
Yeah, I've noticed the temperature situation too in myself… I had it today... it was up and down a fair bit, but then improved somewhat around early to mid afternoon.
Oh yes, ME/CFS is all about ‘come for the fatigue, stay for the charming quirks' isn't it haha.
