Crash

Unfortunately the PEM turned into a "Crash". I've had a lot of neurological symptoms. Brain fog, constant headaches and uncontrollable body spasms and jerking. I'm so tired, so very tired.

I had a Detox bath and gave myself a B12 injection, took an antihistamine and headache tablets and sipped my electrolyte drink.

I've been in a darkened room on oxygen, with the air purifier on high. Apart from that all I can do is wait it out.

I took this photo at the "Butterfly Place" in Westford, Massachusetts a couple of years ago.

My Chrysalis
The darkness holds me gently in its soft healing hands
The silence enfolds me like the infinite grains of sand
On the shore of my life this day is to me
But one little grain of sand by the sea

Curled up in bed like a caterpillar sleeping
Encased in my chrysalis silently weeping
The tears rolling down my face gently fall
As I lay here and grieve the futility of it all

At other times I quietly accept the day
Yet all the time I'm longing to be far away
I dream of the days when I could run 
Dance and skip and play in the sun

Tomorrow will be a new day I know it is true
I await the day when all will be made new
And I emerge as a butterfly and uncurl my wings
How joyously then my heart will sing.