It’s a bizarre symptom of chronic fatigue, that feeling as if you are getting a cold. A boy crying wolf as many times as I get this symptom would have been well and truly disregarded by now.
The problem is, sometimes the cry is real and it really is the flu coming for it’s annual visit. The problem is, how do you distinguish the genuine cries from the fakes?
The past few days I have been certain I have the flu, yet it doesn’t progress, and I haven’t gotten the standard symptoms we all are so familiar with. No runny or blocked nose, yet all other signs point to the flu. Headaches, sore throat, achy muscles, yet it stays this way, and bizarrly comes and goes.
It would seem I have yet again been fooled despite all my experience, and have misinterpreted the symptoms as the common flu, when in fact it is just a simple flare up of my illness. How did I get it wrong again? It is frustrating and disheartening to be lied to by your own body, of all things in this world, my own body should be one I can count on.
Recently, I had an iron infusion for my severely depleted stores, I was fairly skeptical about how much it would help, but of course it was needed so was more than happy to give it a go and see what happens.
For a week after the infusion I was very sick, my body aches were aggravated badly the first few day but that settled quickly. The fatigue following was quite extreme, as bad as I get, and I was like it for a week.
After such a reaction I was fairly negative and didn’t expect to improve from the treatment at all, but since the weekend I have been well, after having a remarkably good run on the weekend I find myself even more surprised to be doing incredibly well during the week. Today is the best I have been in a very very long time.
I have had good runs before, and they never last, so I remain uncertain that this will last, and have to keep in mind it could just be another good run and not a sign of permanent good health. I am despite these fears hopeful, and feeling very encouraged and inspired.
I find myself a little surprised by how much more I can get done in a day while I am well, I guess it is easy to forget what normal functioning feels like.
Signing off extremely happy and hopeful 
Today I had great hopes of getting a number of jobs done, only to wake up feeling extremely exhausted and weak yet again.
I have set reminders on my computer that I have now hit snooze on 3 times today with the intentions of doing those jobs later, when I pick up.
It’s incredibly frustrating to make plans for the day and not be able to follow through on any of them, fortunately none of today’s plans were critical, but they still at some point need doing, and I am now left tomorrow needing to catch up.
I am stuck now wondering if I should attempt to get a few of the jobs done despite how I feel, or if I should just listen to the signals and get the rest I clearly need.
Kebbster