Look Out For The Good Days

Edgar protecting his food from the big bad human

Good days can very deceptive (they can trick or fool you). They can lull (make you feel calm, safe ) you into a false sense of security. Then, bam! Your world is turned upside down.

Now, with bad days, you usually know what you have. Most of the time it feels wrong from the beginning. Maybe not when you wake up, but from the moment you stub your toe on something, or pour coffee down your favorite shirt, and Bingo! you're having a bad day.

A bad day doesn't have to stay a bad day, but for me, the best that can happen is it will turn from a bad day to just a tough day. This has more to do with my immune system disorder (malfunction, or disease), chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome, or CFIDS for short.

I'm used to having slightly to moderately bad days most of the time. These are related to my energy level, which CFIDS has a large impact upon. Luckily I don't have many very bad days, and rarely have an extremely bad day.

The days I have to be most wary of (careful of), however, are the good days. Because it is on those days, I get fooled into feeling that I am normal. Like yesterday, for instance. I had a good day, and so I managed to get a lot accomplished, and, like a lot of good days, I overdid it (did too much). So last night I had a very bad night of sleep, which made today a harder day to get through than usual. And yes, I did stub my toe on the corner of wall this morning, and it hurt most of the day.

But it is the bad days that make me appreciate the good days. It is hard not to overdo it on the good days, because I do not want to waste them. As a rock'n'roll song goes, "Good days, bad days, Lord I get my share...". Yep, and thank God for that...