“Are you still tired?”  If you are chronically ill you are going to hear this from friends or family.  What they don’t seem to understand is that the fatigue that accompanies illness is not the same exhaustion you feel when you only get 4 hours of sleep.  It is a bone crunching, brain numbing, heart stopping tired that you feel when your body is in a constant fight or flight mode.  Couple that with not being able to sleep more than 2-3 hours at a time because you CANNOT find a position that doesn’t hurt or pain flares that slap you awake in the middle of the night and take you hours to recover from.  So to answer your question, “you’re goddamn right I’m tired!”  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joseph Campbell