I use the care and feeding posts partly as a way to remind myself, and partly because there are some weird quirks.
Here, let me quote the beginning of the health stuff, to give an idea.
What does this mean for you? - I sometimes need to cancel plans (even ones I want very much to do) - especially if they involve me driving. Usually, I know that I will need to a couple of days in advance, or at least have suspicions.
- If you ask me to add something new to my life, I will have to do a lot of poking before I say yes or no. (this can, I understand, look a little odd from the outside.)
- How far or how fast I can walk varies a lot based on several factors. At the moment, I can rely on doing half a mile at a time, am generally managing a mile at once, but more than that is a lot more iffy.
- Travel - and changes in routine in general - wipe me out for at least a week afterwards, and often two or three.
- Jenetts do not work, think, or otherwise function well in temperatures over about 85F. If it is currently over that, the amount of stuff that can reasonably get done in a day is at least half what it would normally be. There are reasons I live in Maine.
The short version of the health stuff: - I fundamentally don’t trust that my body is going to do what I tell it much of the time. Which sucks, but is a thing. (Most notably my lungs and my stamina, but also focus, executive function, and whether or not I have any interest in eating or food.)
- My lungs are seriously flaky and hyperreactive at times. Breathing is sort of fundamental, but I can’t ever take it for granted.
- My stamina varies a lot, and my life is a constant balancing equation of “If I do X, can I also do Y?”
- I have days where my brain just entirely refuses to function or focus. This is deeply annoying. (I also have the occasional day when retreating to bed is the only thing one can do.)
- There’s a bunch of food things (discussed in ‘food’) that mostly boil down to “I can eat in most restaurants just fine, but if you’re cooking for me, or I’m having more than two meals in a row with you, we should talk about a few things”
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Date: 2013-06-12 01:29 pm (UTC)Here, let me quote the beginning of the health stuff, to give an idea.
What does this mean for you?
- I sometimes need to cancel plans (even ones I want very much to do) - especially if they involve me driving. Usually, I know that I will need to a couple of days in advance, or at least have suspicions.
- If you ask me to add something new to my life, I will have to do a lot of poking before I say yes or no. (this can, I understand, look a little odd from the outside.)
- How far or how fast I can walk varies a lot based on several factors. At the moment, I can rely on doing half a mile at a time, am generally managing a mile at once, but more than that is a lot more iffy.
- Travel - and changes in routine in general - wipe me out for at least a week afterwards, and often two or three.
- Jenetts do not work, think, or otherwise function well in temperatures over about 85F. If it is currently over that, the amount of stuff that can reasonably get done in a day is at least half what it would normally be. There are reasons I live in Maine.
The short version of the health stuff:
- I fundamentally don’t trust that my body is going to do what I tell it much of the time. Which sucks, but is a thing. (Most notably my lungs and my stamina, but also focus, executive function, and whether or not I have any interest in eating or food.)
- My lungs are seriously flaky and hyperreactive at times. Breathing is sort of fundamental, but I can’t ever take it for granted.
- My stamina varies a lot, and my life is a constant balancing equation of “If I do X, can I also do Y?”
- I have days where my brain just entirely refuses to function or focus. This is deeply annoying. (I also have the occasional day when retreating to bed is the only thing one can do.)
- There’s a bunch of food things (discussed in ‘food’) that mostly boil down to “I can eat in most restaurants just fine, but if you’re cooking for me, or I’m having more than two meals in a row with you, we should talk about a few things”