The Mundane Journal Entries of an Ordinary Person

Season: Autumn

Weather: Showers

Day of the week: Tuesday

Date: 26th March, 2024

No outside visitors today.

Just hard work with various therapists, including a Psychologist.

A doctor and nurse took me into a meeting room and had a long talk with me about my health and what I would have to take care of from now on. They seemed relieved that I was no longer refusing to listen or denying there was anything wrong with me. They seemed happy when I asked them to write all the instructions down.

They smiled when I sighed at the end and put my face in my hands.

"I heard that you agreed to move places and move in with someone. I'm glad you made that decision. That way, there'll always be someone around if anything goes wrong."

I just sighed again.

They didn't get it. I was losing my freedom. My independence. I'd been fine for so many years. Why did so many things have to happen this year?

"The human body can only take so much stress and abuse," the doctor told me, as if she had read my mind. "Then it gets to a point where it can't take it anymore and these types of things happen. Take your health a bit like money you withdraw from a bank. You can only withdraw as much money from the bank as you have. When you don't have enough, the bank will sometimes allow you to overdraw and lend you some money. But you have to repay it with interest. And if you can't pay it back, there will be a point where the bank refuses to allow you to continue borrowing. That's your body right now. Your health has been severely overdrawn and your body can't take it anymore. You're going to have to really take care of yourself or you're going to end up with more chronic health problems."

Argh.

Fine.

Fine.

"If all goes well and you continue to recover without relapse, you should be able to go home for Easter this weekend. Won't that be nice?"

Yeah. That would be nice.