“Is Night time the hardest for spoonies?”
People ask me- Well first, let me deal with the incredulous wonder there. That people have started to ask me questions that are sensitive, probing and meaningful. Which is because of the full body of chronically ill mini-memoirs all over the web. Thank you, fellow spoonies, for answering the call – mine or anyone’s- to write about your experiences. People are now asking me, mostly to compare I think, what the hardest part of my day is. Earlier, I would have said the morning. Oh now naive I was. Mornings are still tough, mind you. When the kids are in school, finally falling asleep at 4 am and getting up at 6:30, not being fully sure if you’ll get a nap later and if you do, for how long? It was no joke. Because right after that, I have at least an hour or two of work to finish, even if I started while they were getting ready. Trying to get started moving through the house to get to coffee or breakfast isn’t as bad now that there’s a fridge in my room. The Naked juice or protein-rich Greek yogurt I can start on upstairs helps me have the energy to get up and have the rest of my meal and coffee downstairs. In trying to find out how to have better days, and start sleeping again…. LOLOLOL. Sorry. The idea of a full night of sleep is hilarious to me! I was trying to say that in trying to
