While most of you spent yesterday with large groups of family and friends eating turkey with all of the trimmings...I am thankful that I DID NOT have to do that. You may think that sounds terrible, but I can't plan for the way I feel. I can only make plans for how I hope that I feel. If you happened to read the previous you'll know that, in fact, I would have loved to have spent yesterday with family and friends. It's just almost impossible. People with Lyme tend to get overstimulated by light, sound, and smell. Just the thought of spending time in an enclosed area with bright lights, kids screaming, people talking loudly, and smelling food cooking mixed with the smells of perfume and cologne makes me sick just thinking about it.
Right now, I can still smell my less-than-favorite choice for my husband's cologne wafting through the first floor and he left for work hours ago. A lot of times I am unable to be out very long because all of the overstimulation. My house is the one place I can control the environment with the lights, sounds, and smells. It is very difficult to have people visit or stay for a few days. It's not that I don't want them here. It's just that my quiet environment is disrupted in a way that I can't control it.
Yesterday, I woke up exhausted after a full night of uniterrupted sleep. Throughout the day I had bouts of dizziness. That was an added bonus. We had planned to go to a restaurant about an hour away for an early dinner. By the time we got back I was exhausted. I still had 2 IV infusions left to do for the day and I barely made it through them. I couldn't make it any longer and was in bed before 8:30.
I've always liked to cook a lot of food on holidays. Sometimes, we like to have people over who would otherwise be spending the day alone. It was nice to do things the easy way and just spend the day together without having to clean up a mess in the kitchen from a day spent cooking.