Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Energizer bunny


Energizer bunny



                How many of us used to have toys when we were kids that ran off of batteries, do you remember when energizers first came to market? I was ecstatic they would just keep going and going and going, the commercial said so, I begged my parents for those batteries so I could drive my remote control car for more then 5 minutes at a time with out having to recharge them or replace them.  Well now I am an adult and I wish they could make some type of batteries to keep my wife from being so fatigued.  I mean she is just like the old toy, we will be talking and all of a sudden I see her eyes start to drop, she fights it and then the speech becomes slow, then the words become slurred. I usually reach over and turn the switch off on her (tell her I love her and that she needs to close her eyes and sleep for a bit) after about 20 minutes her eyes pop open and where ever she was in the conversation she is right back at it never skipping a beat until the charge wears off again. Wonder is they should take fatigue out of CFS and replace it with the word energy.  It’s a learning process to be able to have a deep conversation and be in the middle of making a point to have to turn the egg timer and wait for the recharge, but it’s worth it, no need to get upset or frustrated as even a person in great health needs to recharge the batteries from time to time.  All we can do is hope that one day the energizer bunny will figure out a way to help with energy for all the sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome.