The spoon theory

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Another site that I am on had this in one of the threads. Not sure if anyone has seen it or not but wanted to share. It refers to Lupus but I felt it applies to how my husband's Hep C affects him. The original thread also listed this site: http://butyoudontlooksick.com/

The Spoon Theory

There was a lady named who made explaining chronic illness a whole lot easier for the rest of us. And, oddly, it referred to spoons. She was sitting in a diner one night with her friend when her friend asked her what having Lupus was really like. She then proceeded to take every spoon from the diner tables, and handed them to her friend, telling her friend that she now had lupus. had her friend go through her daily routine, but broke down steps that take extra energy for people with chronic illness. Her friend said that she would first wake up and get ready. then stopped her, saying that first she had to find the energy to get out of bed. And with that, she took a spoon from her friend. The spoons represented her energy level, kind of like what you see in video games (like the hearts in Zelda). As she went through her routine, she came to the end of her day. She was down to one spoon, but she still had to make something to eat OR take her medicine. Without the food, she couldn't hold down her medicine and without her medicine, she could become very sick.It's sad, but such decisions have to be made every day for some people. We can never tell how many "spoons" we have in a day. Some days we can have 20 and the very next we can have 2. I believe that with more awareness, maybe we could have some extra spoons that we didn't even know were there.

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