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Did someone say sleep?

Okay, this fatigue thing is getting out of control. It’s been, shall we say, an HPSish female time lately, so I guess it’s no wonder I’m so tired. But, it seems like I’m always tired, no matter what the time of the month or the state of my health. I could just quite happily spend half my day in bed.

I start to wonder how much of that is physical and how much is psychological. To say I’ve been under a lot of stress lately would be the understatement of the century.

Yesterday I stayed home from work. I had acid reflux to beat the band all night and got pretty much no sleep. My gut just felt acidy and every time I’d lay down, here the stuff would come – yuck. I didn’t intend to miss a day of work. I got up and started to get ready for work, but felt like my body parts had cement in them. I decided to stay home and try to work. But, when I got up, fired up the computer and started trying to work, I kept getting dizzy spells.

It’s a bit hard to interview people and stare at the computer screen when you feel like that. I cancelled my interviews for the day and went back to bed. I don’t think this is making my employer, with our pending deadlines, very happy.

This afternoon I have another doctor’s appointment, but of course I feel much better today. I just slept for an entire day.
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