I want to inspire people. I want someone to say because of me, they didn’t give up.

Usually when I write, it’s just as much for me as it is for anyone else. Today is no exception.

I wouldn’t say the last few days have been great, but they’ve been better than many. So you can imagine my disappointment when I woke up this morning with neck and head pain, nausea, and all over body aches.

It’s so frustrating to start feeling like there’s a shift in this sickness – I start thinking maybe I’m getting better, maybe I can go back to work someday, maybe I will be able to hike and kayak and play guitar. Maybe my life will get back to normal.

I don’t know what triggered this crash – could be a stressful situation, something I ate, one of my remedies, an encounter with a toxic substance, or just one of the sicknesses rearing it’s ugly head.

I don’t know why and I don’t care. The bottom line is that I woke up this morning and realized I’m still sick.

I’m in several online groups focused on sicknesses like mine. Every day I read posts by people who are at their wits end. They, like me, wake up every day hoping to feel just a little bit better. When they don’t, they are sad. That sadness builds and over time, it becomes depression.

So I’m here today, on one of my bad days, to say don’t give up.

You don’t have to fight today.

Just don’t give up.

An patient told a doctor “it hurts when I go like this…”

The doctor said “well, don’t go like this…”