[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “’It’s only across town.  We can walk there.’ Can we, now?”]

I can walk for about half an hour tops on my best days.  On my worst days you better plan on carrying me or dragging me in a wagon if you intend to walk.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Go for walk.  Stop half way through to sit in snow and numb joint pain.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Can swallow over five large pills at once.  No big deal”]

Five, six, seven…

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Only barely limping today.  Gets excited.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Longterm GP gives controlled substances” Under “Over phone”]

I <3 you doctor Paul.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “First half of decade playing down illness to seem normal” Bottom: “Second half of decade playing up symptoms just to be taken seriously”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Vomit so regularly” Bottom: “Begin to worry about throat lining”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top Text reads: “Pain medication finally kicks in” Bottom Text reads “Almost cry with happiness”]

So what if I’m now too tired to do anything?  I’m often too tired to do anything AND in pain.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Chronic mono? Oh I have that” “I get tired all the time”]

Seriously, the amount of time people have told me that “they think they have chronic mono too” because “they get tired all the time” is absolutely insane. I facepalm so hard.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Treatment” Bottom: “Makes you feel worse than disease”]

A very chronically ill valentine’s day:

my parents sent me a valentine’s day care package.  It contained: new antacid tablets, vitamin packets, acetaminophen, a star wars lolipop, and band aids.  They treat me right ♥ it was in a cute package with hearts ^^

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “ALLERGIC TO EGGS, DAIRY, AND NUTS”]

Also I’m not supposed to eat red meat, among other things. Yet somehow I must get enough protein and iron while living on a college campus with little money to work outside my meal plan.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: Top:”Brain zaps” Bottom:”No idea what causes them”]

I get brain zaps from loud noises, worse in periods, but idk if it’s from a lingering undetectable Lyme disease, lingering SSRI withdrawal, migraine or something else.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Immune system does more harm than good”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Gets swimmer’s ear every spring, hasn’t been swimming in years”]