Thursday, November 22, 2007
The crash that had to happen
Here in Australia we had a prime minister in the early '90s who infamously once said that the economic recession of the time was "the recession we had to have". I'm not going to get into politics 2 days before a federal election, but I was reminded of that comment once I became slightly lucid this afternoon after a massive 2 day crash. I had basically overdone things to a major degree. The afore mentionned concert followed by a day of pent up energy, then on the saturday an early start for rowing training (I steer the boat) then a rowing race, the a 1.5 hour drive to the country for a friends engagement party that finished around 3am with me (and others) singing bad karaoke. Needless to say, like all good things, it all had to come to an end.
I made it through monday and tuesday, just. Then I had trouble sleeping on tuesday night. I got up ok on wednesday, but by the time I had made breakfast it had become abundantly apparent that that was the most exciting thing I was going to be doing that day. Back to bed for another 6 hours sleep and I was still pretty whacked that evening, and not much better this morning. Another few hours sleep and I managed to drag myself to my massage appointment. That seemed to help, surprisingly, and I am feeling oh so slightly better tonight. Hopefully by tomorrow I can do something more interesting than sleep. In the meantime, all I can say is I should have known better.
Photo credit: Selva
Labels: CFS, chronic fatigue syndrome, crash, party
