Week Thirty-five
Fatigue
Mental fatigue describes the difficulty of having to concentrate more when thinking and understanding. this includes reading, filing papers, eating a meal and tying shoelaces.
Physical fatigue describes nerve and muscle weakness. It comes from needing to work harder to accomplish things that were easy before the injury. Including: working around the house, dressing and walking. The fatigue accumilates over time and subsides very slowly.
I received a letter from the insurance company saying they denied me anymore visits for therapy. I’ll appeal but I don’t expect it will change anything. I’m far from being healthy. It’s a sad month. I have my last physical therapy this week and last occupational therapy next week. I feel like I’m being abandoned.
I need to plan my days around the fatigue. I’m able to accomplish one or two tasks in the morning then I sleep two or three hours in the afternoon, and maybe accomplish something in the evening. If I don’t sleep everything can potentially become annoying. I become irritated and lose my temper. It’s a chain reaction and could happen in a instant.
It’s all connected, the concentration, fatigue, irritation, anger. Fatigue is the biggest struggle in my life on a daily basis, it would prevent me from working if I didn’t have other mental and physical struggles.