My View

Well this has pretty much been my view for the day, my bedroom curtains well and the iPad.

Seems I have a new fantastic side effect from my pain meds - I wake up and then well you know, sleep where for art thou? Only when I take them just before bed, so I guess I will have to give up headaches, shame because I really do enjoy them.

Anyway despite lack of sleep I still went out and did my run 2 of week 3 couch to 5k. And you know what I survived and there was actual running that was beyond a minute. Today's session was warm up walk followed by two reps of 90sec run, 90sec walk, 3 minute (yes that's three whole minutes) run, with a three minute walk between the reps and cool down walk at the end. And do you know what's even more impressive I saw another runner, someone coming towards me on the tow path and I kept on running, I even smiled at them and said hi. That is huge for me, it used to be that if I saw ANYONE I would stop.

The rest of the day sadly spoons all ran out and I have been barely functioning, I could just about manage movies and nothing that required actual brain power. And that is the problem with having a hidden illness called ME. I say Hi I'm disabled I have multiple chronic conditions and the world says rubbish your not sick you were out this morning running, your just lazy.

Yep lazy that's me.

Oh and knees are holding up, working the muscles more is really paying off, my feet are even less painful and my hip bursitis doesn't feel sore at all, my ankles are doing ok and my back well again a big thumbs up. Still hard to believe how far I've come - 2011 saw me having to call the paramedics to pick me off of the floor and the spasms in my back progressively getting worse that I could barely walk and on top of that an ME relapse to now, me not just walking but running. And everyday I am thankful that my ME isn't worse, because it's truly a terrifying illness that can rob people of their lives.