Soul-Destroying Fatigue
Passed out for not one, not two, but THREE hours from 1 – 4pm! I´m so lucky I don´t have a “proper” full-time job. With these episodes of soul-destroying fatigue I really wouldn´t cope too well…
Mind you, I do remember even back in the office in London, my last job there before 2004, I used to regularly fall asleep a couple of times a day, right there at my desk, with my head falling forward as my fingers were still typing away. This used to happen around 11am – 12 noon and then again at about 3 – 4pm almost every day. I just could not keep awake.
I used to escape to the toilet for a few minutes, walk up and down the stairs, go outside for some fresh air (or have a cigarette when I was still a smoker), make myself a coffee, trying to wake myself – but it was very difficult, and nothing really worked. My voice and thinking also become so sluggish, but I somehow muddled my way through each day. However, I was always surprised that this did not happen to other people in the office?
In retrospect, I of course now know that the fatigue is a symptom of fibromyalgia (and rheumatoid arthritis), but try and explain to your boss when he wants something and it takes you twice the time because you become double slow when it happens…. 🙁
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