My personality has always has been the type that I’m more of the hare in the tortoise and the hare story. I love to just attack something and get it done. If I’m learning about something I just want to cram all the knowledge, eczema pictures, whatever it is in there and move on to the next thing. However, in business when I’m looking at the next few years or even decades it’s really overwhelming. Add fibro into this equation and it seems like I’ll never be able to rest properly.

That’s the thing, if I say I will write x amount 5 days a week I never know how many days a week I’m going to be too sick to work. So if I write xx amount it saves up time but can also lead to my body breaking down. On some days it seems like you just can’t win with fibro. This is why it especially comes in handy to be me, because I always win.

Sometimes I’m astounded that I made it through college. I’m less surprised that I never made it to law school or took gmat prep courses. A lot of it has to do with fatigue and it’s mostly fibro fog. Sometimes, I’m astounded by everything I’ve forgotten. Really, I had to work quite hard in college because of this. Really the only knowledge I retained were things that were presented to me in a variety of ways and had applicable applications to my everyday life. Any other tips for how to study with fibro for any students out there?

I seem to beat myself up a lot because I can’t do as much as a healthy person. Right now I just made dinner, like an actual meal, with ingredients, and it’s healthy and it took all of my strength for the day. I was planning on working today as well so now instead of “Look I have food”, I feel like “I missed a twelve hour work day because my brain wouldn’t cooperate”.

However, what does matter is that I still did something. The thing about fibro that I’m not good at but want to be better at is that it requires constant adaptation. I rarely ever work at the exact times I plan to because of my health, but I still have to keep moving so I can get things done or free up time to work when I do feel better.