On November 17th, frustrated with the inaccuracy of my memory and spurred on by my doctor, I did geektastic thing: I started a private blog in which I chronicle every last thing about anything that might have a bearing on my energy levels. It lists everything I eat, copied & pasted weather information from Weather.gov, and a little narrative about, well, everything else. Then I attach categories. These are key. These are what make it function like a mini-database. Tthere are categories for things like headaches or the weird throat pressure that seems to predict bouts of extreme tiredness, and every day gets assigned one of 5 energy levels. Energy Level 1 would mean “can’t function.” Thankfully, I’ve never used that one. Energy Level 5 means “Feeling completely normal.” So far I’ve used that designation 7 times since November 17th.*<\/p>\n
The really good news? Today seems on track to be a 5, and if it is it will be the first time I’ve recorded two 5s in a row<\/em>. I’m so excited!!! If I didn’t have to work all afternoon and evening I’d do something crazy like spend the day walking around a lake or taking up Japanese or opening the windows to the cold February air and cleaning the house from top to bottom.<\/p>\n In a way, I’m glad that the last week was so hard because it makes the contrast starkly wonderful.<\/p>\n * I know this seems really low, especially since I’ve been doing much better since about mid-December. But you see, a 4 is pretty good, too, and I’ve recorded 21 4s. So all in all, 28 pretty good days, which is pretty good!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 17th, frustrated with the inaccuracy of my memory and spurred on by my doctor, I did geektastic thing: I started a private blog in which I chronicle every last thing about anything that might have a bearing on my energy levels. It lists everything I eat, copied & pasted weather information from Weather.gov, … Continue reading High Five<\/span>