![]() My symptoms waxed and waned, evolved over time and it spite of what I consider state of the art treatment, my condition became such that I had to stop practicing in 2000. I got a severe flu-like illness in 1983, from which I never fully recovered. I am someone who knows THE moment when I became ill…there was nothing gradual or vague about the onset. I did lead a full, satisfying, life, but don’t for a moment think that I simply “brought this illness upon myself based upon my lifestyle” and do not think that if I had lived differently I would not have become sick. I wanted to be a competent doctor like many of my peers, and most of them did not become sick in any way. I was not someone who was on “every committee”, or was driven to be a supereior academician. #I LL SLEEP WHEN I AM DEAD PROFESSIONAL#I really hesitate to “blame” myself, because there were many other people that had similar life tracks (in my case, went to college, medical school, did a residency, put off having a child until I completed my training and began a professional career. I think the jury is still out on the complex set of factors that may be involved in CFS/ME, 2 of the maladies I suffer with. I, too, have asked myself some of these same questions, which really are a way of saying: to what degree did my lifestyle contribute to my becoming ill? Or, even more difficult for me “to buy”, is the assumption that, it in fact, did. Is lack of sleep and lack of rest worth risking the rest of your life for? Because that is the path many are headed down – the same that I have to live and the millions of us with chronic illness.įiled Under: Chronic Illnesses, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS Tagged With: Chronic Illnesses, Fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, Sleep, Sleep disorders Reader Interactions But I am so fed up with this crap being fed to people that working themselves into the ground is going to be beneficial in the long run when I have first-hand seen how much damage it can do permanently to a person’s body. I believe in hard work and I believe in working for your goals. Trying to achieve success and getting to the top fast so that I could have long-term gain only resulted in a life sentence of chronic health problems that I am reminded of every second of every day. But for how many of us has this backfired? It did for me. You need to push yourself hard for the short-term in order to have long-term gain. Then when the illnesses set in, the sleep disorders set in and we know all too well that by not sleeping the theory “I’ll sleep when I’m dead” will come sooner than later because of these issues.īut this message is being promoted across America that success is only achieved by working around the clock, going on very little sleep, because you will have “time to sleep later”. It's been my experience that authors are very friendly and really cool when they find out their book was too good for you to put down.How many of us have heard people say, or have been guilty ourselves of saying that we have too much to do right now, too much life to live and that “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”? I would almost guarantee that probably just about every person with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia has said that because of the Type A personalities most of us exhibit.Īfter all, it was this attitude that helped lead us to the unhealthy lifestyle that we find ourselves in now – pushing our bodies beyond the limits it was capable of producing and not taking enough time to rest – enough time to sleep. What books have cost you a night of repose? Which authors had you looking for an injection of adrenaline the next day to keep you awake at the wheel?Īnd, did you contact them to tell them? If not, you might want to think about that. I can only hope my stories will one day do the same (and I'll gleefully apologize to anyone who has such a "complaint" about any of them). (If any of you haven't read THE BLADE ITSELF, you need to. I'm sending all of their complaints to you buddy. Though I haven't told him yet, Brett Battles owes my in-laws an apology, because I was a weary, miserable jackass for a wedding we attended because of THE CLEANER.Īnd Marcus Sakey? Yeah, my students would like to know why my handwriting is so tough to read on the work I gave back last week. ![]() ![]() I emailed Michelle Gagnon to let her know my students could tell I hadn't slept a week because of BONEYARD. I let Zoe Sharp know that her FIRST DROP had me dragging the next day. The story and characters were so engaging that you literally couldn't put the book down. ![]() Think about how much that must mean to them. I've been told by several authors that one of the greatest compliments you can give them is to let them know their book cost you a night of sleep. ![]()
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