5 and a half years ago my wife fell ill with
an auto immune disease called Guillain Barre Syndrome which pretty much leaves
you paralysed. From that she has a very crappy case of chronic fatigue and no immune
system, so a little cough for us is the full blown flu for her.
About a month ago she came across an article
another woman wrote who has chronic fatigue syndrome where she talks about
spoons.
When we get up we can slide ride out of bed,
have some breakfast, jump in the shower, do some emails, walk to work, all
without breaking a sweat. We can carry out whatever endeavors we need to do
for that day and be fine with it, besides some slight tiredness come the end
of the day.
We have unlimited spoons pretty much.
For those with chronic fatigue, they have a
limited amount of spoons to use each day with some days being slightly better
and some days being way worse. So where we might use 100 spoons during a given
day with all the things we do, they might only have say, 12 spoons of which do
the same amount of stuff with.
You might say 12 doesn’t really go into 100
and you’d be right, so what they need to do is to decide what they’ll spend
their 12 spoons on, meaning they have to prioritise what they’ll do each day.
Now I’m not saying you need to limit your
spoonage everyday, but when you record a poor HRV reading then it’s telling you
that you have less spoons to play with then yesterday.
When you record a good
HRV reading it’s telling you that you have extra spoons to play with for that
day.
I think the spoon thing is a great analogy
for all of this which is why I put this in!
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