Hi, all!
I'd been napping pretty regularly and getting to bed early, but I guess after my meeting the the "big kahuna neurologist" earlier this week, it just set me off - his saying I didn't have MS. So I thought, okay, if I don't have it, then I don't have to waste any more of my daylight hours on naps - hurray!! So for the past two days I did not nap - oh, it was delicious! I could get lots more done that way - I got my car inspected etc. I also got to bed just a little bit later on those two days without naps. I was beginning to think I was a normal person again . . . until this morning after I had been working for about two hours and there appeared a sudden WALL OF FATIGUE AND WEAKNESS! And I wasn't breathing very well either. So I brought out my CPAP machine and actually had to do my computer job while using my CPAP for air. My pulse oximetry numbers slowly began to rise from the 50s and 70s back up into the 90s! But I don't like having to use my CPAP during the daytime so, therefore, I am going back to regular napping. From now on, my nap is going to be an automatic block of time on my schedule.
Never underestimate the power of napping!! And don't feel guilty about not using the nap time for chores that are screaming to be done.
For MSers, napping is not optional!!!!
WAF