The reason I can do that is because I have chronic Fibromyalgia, I'm in pain almost everywhere on my body, 24/7/365. In fact, I haven't had a pain free day since mid-spring of 1993. Then add in constant headaches, sub-migraine or low migraine level at the mildest now; like the pain, there hasn't been a day in 22 years without a headache of at least sub-migraine intensity. On top of that, add in that some days, I'm lucky to get four hours sleep, other days, I could sleep forever. The other day, I was in bed for over 19 hours, 17 of that sleeping.

That's the big stuff, then there's irritating stuff like dealing with irritable bowel syndrome, poor vision, serious light sensitivity (bright sunlight can make it impossible for me to go out, luckily I now have four sets of snap on sunglass lenses), roughly 60% hearing loss, maybe more, fairly serious noise sensitivity (much worse when I have hearing aids as they magnify noises several times; I used to have them back in the late '90s, and when outside, an emergency vehicle going by with siren blasting would have me falling to the ground), muscle spasms, bipolar (primarily depression) and other odds and ends. Sometimes I truly wonder how I manage to get out of bed each day.

So yeah, I can understand Christine's spoon theory extremely well. Different condition, maybe, but I've been there many times.

Dot, I hope that are feeling better soon. Here's some hugs from my heart to yours: (((((((((( ))))))))))