{"id":4509,"date":"2016-03-16T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:02:59","slug":"this-long-tired-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2016\/03\/this-long-tired-road.html","title":{"rendered":"This Long Tired Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I woke up this morning ready for a nap. By 10:00 I was dragging. At sometime around noon I could hardly keep my eyes open. At 2:00 I finally gave into the siren song of plush blankets and fluffy pillows, dozing off for nearly two hours, only to wake up ready for another nap. When I\u2019m not asleep, my body thinks that I need to be.<\/p>\n

Normal thyroid but low Vitamin D (since corrected after 8 weeks of high dose supplements) was the verdict of the last blood test, but they were far from normal. My liver function and other tests mimic those of a person who\u2019s morbidly obese. My scale may not think I\u2019m fat, but my liver sure does. While I wait for my endocrinology appointment to finally get here and my family doc schedules a sleep study, I\u2019m considering the practicality of using Scotch tape to keep my eyelids open.<\/p>\n

My Catholic friends keep telling me to \u201coffer it up\u201d and to \u201cunite my suffering to Christ\u2019s on the Cross,\u201d so I keep looking towards the Crucifix on my wall. There\u2019s just one problem, Christ was already done by the time He got to the Cross. He even said so, \u201cIt is finished.\u201d I\u2019m so far from finished, even though I could use a nap right about now. I\u2019m the Mom and the Wife and the CrossFit coach; so I have things to do even when I don\u2019t really believe that I can stand upright to do them.<\/p>\n

The more I thought about Christ on the Cross, the more I decided that my offerings were misplaced. I\u2019m now joining this whole Extreme Fatigue thing up with the Via Dolorosa. When I think of Jesus stumbling his way towards Calvary with an aching body, unsure steps, and how tired He must have been\u2026but He just kept going..because He had to. Quitting was not an option. One foot in front of the other, and all that.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m certainly not Jesus, I\u2019m not even fit to loosen his sandal straps. I\u2019m just a woman who\u2019s tired, not of anything in particular, just bone-crushing tired; and a long way from being finished. So I\u2019m keeping my eyes, not on the Cross, but on the long walk to get there. I\u2019m imitating My Lord in pressing ever onward, no matter how much I\u2019d like to stop and rest. Because I\u2019ve learned that, for now, there is no rest that is enough for me, there is no amount of sleep that will refresh my tired body and soul. I can only hope to follow His example and continue slogging forward until there is an answer and a solution, or\u00a0I get to the end of the journey.<\/p>\n

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The Via Dolorosa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Please pray for me as we run ever more tests, and let me know if I can offer up this long exhausting path for you.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: By Remi Jouan (Photo taken by Remi Jouan) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/) or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5-2.0-1.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/pre>\n
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