@suecedar1028 I tend to get angry. So, I am and have been working on my MSW. I graduate in August. I enrolled before I got this brutal virus. For the last two years, I have had to do a field placement. I enrolled with the student's with disabilities organization at my University. This is an online program, so class is via Zoom. Field placement is not although there are remote positions. I have asked from the get go for a remote field placement due to feeling terrible most mornings. Did not happen. Then, my second semester of my clinical field placement that began last August, stopped. The agency was a non-profit. In December the Exec. Director resigned and it was discovered that thousands in grant money was missing...unaccounted for. So, in the middle of my clinical placement, I had no placement. My field coordinator and I finally found one in March...yes, almost 2 months into the Spring 2026 semester. So, summer school has started. I have to get 600 hours for this field placement. I do well to get 15 hours in a week. It is as if these people do not get it when I say, I feel terrible, and I am concerned. I have 130 hours to get before August 12. I know that doesn't sound like much, but it is almost 19-20 hours a week. I have been going in 2 days a week from 9-4. I have to get up at 5:00 to take the medicine that allows me to function. So, yesterday, I got really pissed off. I have made an appointment with my students with disabilities coordinator. I am not one to rock the boat, but I have come too far in this program to 1)Not be able to get the hours 2)Make myself even sicker trying to push to get the hours...3)Put up with people that need to know about this virus because it is not going anywhere anytime soon. I can empathize in a way, because I never knew what someone meant when they said, "I have chronic fatigue." I now know VERY WELL what that means. There is also no curriculum, I have seen, that addresses chronic illness. This is good, accredited University and it is a Masters of Social Work program. There is no excuse for teaching students, etc. how to help people with chronic illness, long COVID, MS, Cancer....whatever it is. I am on my soap box this morning. I woke up irritated and feel bad.

Okay. Now for gratitude. I have a place to live. I have food. I have clothes, a car, my dogs, my 2 cats and you people. I am still sober.

@suecedar1028 well...sorry you're going through this.
Why tell anyone you have this?If you can't talk about it realizing some people have ZERO interest or act confused...stop telling others.They don't NEED to empathize with you.You're hurting yourself more by expecting others to 'get it'...most don't.I say this with love dear.God Bless and stay strong.You'll get through this...