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Tired, tired, tired: On antibiotics for MAC

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Sep 6, 2021 | Replies (25)

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@thumperguy

Testlady, you said, "I am very stressed with this tiredness. Some days, I can barely move!" Your situation reminds me of a book I read many years ago: "If You Meet the Buddha on the Road Kill Him." It opens with a comment by the author, Sheldon Kopp, a psychotherapist. He recounts an experience with a patient who arrived at Kopp's office and launched into an apparently rather lengthy report; a laundry list of mishaps, misfortunes, and mistakes that had recently beleaguered his daily life. Notwithstanding the fact that the man's woes were credible, when the patient eventually paused Kopp waited several seconds and then said something along the lines of "and you're letting a few little things like this get you down?" I've always considered Kopp's question a masterful use of irony.

So it is in this same spirit of irony that I'll say "and you're letting a few little thing like "stress, tiredness, and barely being able to move get you down.? Feel better soon! Don

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Thanks, Don, I needed that proverbial kick in the pants! I complained of the same to my pulmonologist last week.
She was a lot more sympathetic than your are, though.
Sue

I found rereading Pema Chrodrons book, When Things Fall Apart to get me to not feel as down as I nebulize. Short essays encouraging all of us to keep going and to have a positive attitude as we face our lives.