Beat To Heck -- Update

Hey, following tests I had a change in meds and I have been beat to heck.  Hopefully I will be back to regular posting tomorrow.
DKK

Regular Periodic Medical Testing This Week -- Light Posting

Still Not Up To Par -- Slow Posting

Still physically exhausted.  Slow posting this AM.
DKK

Slow Posting

Slow posting, not having good days the last few.  Daily treks will make up for the news I missed.
DKK

Utterly Exhausted -- Bounce Back Week

I'm really sorry I haven't posted more -- I experienced post exertional fatigue (exhaustion is a better word) after last week's testing.  I will get back to regular posting as soon as I can.
DKK

A Day Of Rest -- Post Testing

Hey, I am restarting meds today, slowly, and recovering from an exhausting week.  Regular posting to begin shortly.
DKK

Testing Day Number Five

Testing continues.  Posting to follow!
DKK

Testing Continues

Testing continues and I am miserable, but that won't stop the Supreme Court from issuing their ruling on the DC gun ban! It should be on the SCOTUS Blog sometime after 10am central.
DKK

Testing Continues

Testing continues today so nothing this AM.

I will try for a Daily Trek and catch up later today.
DKK

Testing All Week

As I noted earlier I will be undergoing routine medical testing this week. Posting may be sporadic.
DKK

Pre-Testing Update

There are two typical phases of off medicine cycles. The first is where there is a slight degradation of cognitive and physical functions. The second is where there is an extremely steep drop off in functional ability that it reminds you of exactly why you were on meds to begin.

I can tell by the first or second day which cycle I'm in and this time is the later.

My evening consisted of turning on the wrong burner, attempting to communicate two different stories/ideas at two different times and having neither one be comprehensible, even after composing myself and restarting, not being able to hold a knife because of a loss of muscle strength, and putting dry goods in the refrigerator and refrigerated goods in the cabinet.

It is 1AM and I just finished reading the days news feeds, mainly due to comprehension and concentration but also due to exhaustion.

This is not going to be a good week, definitely cycle 2.

Anyway, I am apologizing in advance for any rambling, please hold out, it will pass.
David

Future Rambling Possibility

All next week I will be undergoing regular medical testing, nothing I'm not used to, however in order to get proper readings I have had to stop taking most of my medications as of yesterday.

Just a warning as in case the rambling increases.
DKK

Let The Demonizing Begin -- Obama Begins The General

So if Obama is this post-partisan political God why does he spend so much time demonizing John McCain, George Bush, and the Republicans?

He is the politics of hate, the left's modus operandi -- you know the one where they say the Republicans are mean, evil, and refuse to debate the issues -- all the while being mean, evil and refusing to debate the issues.

I saw three reports of Obama speeches today and in all three reports Obama attacked his opponents in a manner approaching nastiness. He doesn't attack the policies but his attack frames in the lefty mode of making it personal -- he doesn't care about the people.

That works to fire up the base but the rest of us are going to get very sick of it very quickly!

Sorry if this post rambles -- right after the first sentence mind fog set in and I really lost it, I could hardly finish this post.
DKK

Medical Leave Today

Nothing until possibly later today I have some regular medical testing and appointments.
DKK

Disclosure And Explanation

Glen Reynolds linked to a NYTimes story on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome No Longer Seen as ‘Yuppie Flu’. Please take a couple of minutes to read it if you have the time.

As a long term suffer of CFS I wanted to share one of the lesser known effects of the disease and wrote the following to Instapundit:

Professor Reynolds,

Thank you for the link to the NY Times report on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I am
a long term sufferer of the condition. ...

While the article mentioned cognitive issues it was really understated. Yes,
the fatigue is like nothing you have ever experienced (and if you have please
accept my heartfelt sympathy) and it drones on day after day after day after day
after day -- no matter the time of day from early morning to late evening. But
one of the silent devils is the way the illness often steals your ability to
communicate.

I blog, read you every day and have sent you things in the past. But often the
posts take hours to write. It is amazing how the mind works, here is an
example. Just last week I realized I had completely forgotten the word whose (I
just spelled it wrong there and it still looks wrong) . It kept coming out,
"whoes," and the spell check kept telling me it was wrong. I knew there was a
word whose, there had to be, I remember it from grade school for God's sake.

After looking online the actual word whose just did not look correct, that word
had been removed from my mind completely forgotten. I substituted, "who's," as
the only alternative that looked like an actual word and cleared the spell
check. It was disturbing at the time but later as I was reading one of my older
pieces something clicked and I just knew there was something wrong yet I
couldn't figure out what it was. When I asked a friend it was pointed out to me
and I was shocked that I had used the incorrect term for weeks, repeatedly.

I went about corrected them (got stumped in one where who's was the correct word
for about 20 minutes) as tears flowed as the realization again sunk in that
neither of my two degrees mattered, my awards for public speaking were useless,
and I ran the risk everyday of my blog shattering my pride and making me look
illiterate.

There really are few things in the world as horrifying as the experience, and it
isn't quite like dementia because some days it is okay and I think, gee, this is great.
Then the next day I get stuck in a post having written the same thing three times -- full paragraphs one after the other as if they were new thoughts -- all the while spelling and grammar making rare appearances, if ever.

For now I will continue blogging thinking it will help to keep my mind sharp,
but deep down I know that it may prove to be a futile effort.

Anyway, i just wanted to thank you again for your post and share my experience.

Have a great day,
David