{"id":136,"date":"2008-08-12T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-08-12T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T15:41:55","slug":"ms-fatigue-or-when-simple-rest-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"MS Fatigue (Or, When Simple Rest Is Not Enough)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Fatigue is many things.<br \/><\/em><br \/>Fatigue is&#8230;<br \/>starting out the day with an energy deficit.<br \/>being more tired in the morning than you were the night before.<br \/>wanting to cry thinking about a task to be done next week.<br \/>not remembering where you put the refrigerator, the car or the kids.<br \/>operating at half-speed.<br \/>When your limbs feel like concrete<br \/>and your brain like cotton candy.<br \/>when you cannot go<br \/>one more millisecond and have to stop NOW.<br \/>when it becomes a major chore<br \/>to walk to the mailbox.<br \/>knowing no one can really understand<br \/>unless they stand in your shoes.<br \/>oft times painful.<br \/>walking through glue.<br \/>Fatigue = Gravity X 2<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Fatigue is many things.<br \/><\/em><br \/>Fatigue is a great teacher&#8230;<br \/>when we must learn to share our burden.<br \/>when we must learn to<br \/>freely let go<br \/>of some of the<br \/>control<br \/>we prize so dearly.<br \/>when we must learn to stop and smell the roses.<br \/>when we must learn to love the quiet times.<br \/>when we must learn<br \/>to let our souls and our bodies lie fallow<br \/>waiting for change that will bring new life.<br \/>when we can laugh at ourselves.<br \/>Fatigue is a great teacher if we can learn it&#8217;s lessons.<br \/>Fatigue means learning these lessons again and again.<br \/>Fatigue is about letting go.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Fatigue is many things.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatigue is many things.Fatigue is&#8230;starting out the day with an energy deficit.being more tired in the morning than you were the night before.wanting to cry thinking about a task to be done next week.not remembering where you put the refrigerator, the car or the kids.operating at half-speed.When your limbs feel like concreteand your brain like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}