Tory is a quitter, round 59348239746

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So Blogathon is coming up.

I'd signed up and everything. Got two donors through the Blogathon site. Which is back up this year, because the 'Thon's official, which would make it easier to advertise, get donors, etcetera.

But I hadn't done any advertising. I was waffling on what to do for my usual 'Thon writing project, made harder by the fact that my writerbrain is utterly dormant. And, well.

I've been nebulously sick for six months plus. Constantly congested and fatigued, physically and mentally, with other problems rotating through. (Most recent? Wracking cough.) I've seen my doctor twice about it, and she just gives me antibiotics and tells me to go away and lose weight. Sure, maybe I'm too fat, but I suspect the problem lies elsewhere.

I can barely make it through a normal day on eight or ten hours of sleep. I'm not going to make it through Blogathon.

Yeah, I feel scummy. And I'm very, very sorry. And I feel even worse because there are folks doing Blogathon, including good friends of mine, who have worse health trouble. But I'm just...wiped out.

Blogathon next year. Once I find a better doctor. I hope.

Don't elect me governor of Alaska, y'all.

Comments

[ghostangel.livejournal.com]

THIS. I spent all of May and June with it, and it took two rounds of steroids, daily Singulair, and an inhaler to fully get rid of. I was literally *exhausted* all the time from it. I agree with everyone else in that you need to see another doctor, especially since the antibiotics aren't helping. Also, wtf does losing weight have to do with a *cough*, seriously?

[methanopyrus.livejournal.com]

if you can't breathe well and your breath is constricted in cough, then you can't circulate energy so well, and if you can't circulate energy than you feel lethargic. if you feel lethargic you may move less and gain weight.