tired

I haven't blogged for a while. This is mainly because I am very tired. Why am I very tired? Well, let's see if we can work it out. I have MS. Part of the symptoms for that are having a decent helping of fatigue, which can manifest itself as an all over the body, general musculature weakness, and a foggy brain that just can't do joined-up thinking much. It could be that, but an episode of the MS fatigue generally has a side helping of clumsy and wobbly with it, which I don't have at present. Probably not then. About fifteen years ago now, I had a stroke. I recovered from the more obvious and worst effects of it (paralysis, lack of speech etc.) after eighteen months or so, but the doctors told me I might need a lot of rest after activity as my body might well get fatigued very easily now. Definitely add to the list of suspects. Although that didn't stop me from taking the health warning on, giving up alcohol and smoking, dropping 25 kilos of weight, and rediscovering my love for…