Well, at least there’s that...

Ways to tell if you’re too tired ...  oh the phone stories all happened  before cell phones were the norm. These are all real life experiences I’ve gathered from friends and family of things that they did when they were just too tired. 1) The phone  rings and you jump out of bed, grab  the closest picture off of the wall and try to answer it. 2) You do the above and wonder why the phone won’t stop ringing. 3) You discover that there are five ways to put a fitted sheet on your  bed. 4) The phone rings , your spouse says, “get the phone” and in a panic you reply , “what’s a phone?” While staring at it. 5)  You’re driving down the road and someone is talking to you. You reach over to turn up the volume on the radio only to realize that the radio was never on....you were trying to turn the volume up on your passenger. 6) You  try to lock the house door with your car key. 7) You wake up in the morning to find that you’ve eaten an entire bag ...

In some of my blogs I talk about cancer and a major car accident. What I haven’t written about is that I’ve dealt with some sort of illness my entire life. I had asthma and allergies that were so severe that I was often rushed into Drs offices, then hospitals. I had mumps, measles, chicken pox... I had two out of three of those in one year. Yes there are vaccines for those things, but somebody forgot to tell my body how they worked. In one year alone I had double pneumonia, lung failure, bilateral Bells Palsy and an intestinal blockage. I had a sinus infection for a full year. I never heard the phrase “nothing is wrong with you” or “that’s normal.” When I went to the Dr I heard words like, “ you got here just in time!” “Call an ambulance” or at least “I’m calling in a round of antibiotics “. While my sister was out enjoying sports I was at the piano. People often assumed it was because I wasn’t athletic. They were wrong. I couldn’t go outside for very long. One year I signed u...