housekeeping

For years I struggled with my health due to chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia 'spectrum' stuff, which creates an 'energy crisis' in your tissues at the cellular level.  As a child I would somehow wrangle bales of hay that weighed as much as I did from the barn to where the horses were and up into the bin where they couldn't get to it, and here I was a full grown woman not able to do the most simple of things -- vacuuming and doing the hard surfaced floors.    read more »

I'm going to provide ideas here as both a person who has had chronic illness/weakness for much of my adult life and provide some education from the occupational therapist in me.  It was a silver lining that my patients appreciated that I could relate to their reality.  I could 'empathize' not 'sympathize', as I'd been there!  read more »