You Know You Have CFS When...
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...when you are cautioned to slow down by your doctor instead of by the police.
...you have a choice of two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home earlier.
...you realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise.
...you don't worry about avoiding temptation. With CFS, it will avoid you.
...getting lucky means you found your car in the parking lot.
...you're sitting in a rocker and you can't get it started.
...you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.
...you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and you didn't do anything the night before.
...the doctor says "I have good news and bad news -- the good news is that you are not a hypochondriac..."
...you go to make toast and nothing happens. You've plugged in the can opener.
...you say to your wife, "Good morning, Mary"...and her name is Sharon.
...you have to sit down to brush your teeth in the morning.
...you become exhausted trying to blow out the candles on your birthday cake.
...you forget your twin sister's birthday.
...you realize that you just sprayed spot remover under your arms instead of deodorant.
...you put both contact lenses in the same eye.
...there is a big basket at the bottom of the stairs full of stuff waiting to go upstairs. -- David White
...it takes you longer to get up the energy to go to the store than the completed task takes you. -- sassyj
...you feed your pets, then sit down and try to decide if it is really worthwhile to get up again just to feed yourself. -- Sandy Flake
...you cut off all your hair because you're too tired to wash/style it anymore. -- Shyrell Melara
...you go to the store to get some cosmetics and write your check out to "Wallpaper" instead of "Wal-mart." -- Sheri (HA! I do this ALL the time! T.J.)
... to unlock your car, you pull out a garage door opener from your purse, aim it at the key slot on your car door, click away, and then stand there in a stupor, wondering why the door wont open. -- Sheri
... you decide that tap water is ok, because the new gallon jug of bottled water is on the floor and it's still full. -- Elsie
... you go upstairs to have a bath, only to realize the bathplug is downstairs...so you decide to have a bath tomorrow instead. -- gossamer
... you continue watching Martha Stewart reinvent the brick because the remote is out of the hand grope area. -- Christa (How true, How true! T.J.)
