Chronic Fatigue

This morning when I woke up, I couldn’t believe it was already daylight. All night I kept waking up because of the unbearable heat of Cuban summer nights. Heat has never been a problem for me when it comes to falling asleep, but I don’t know why it’s affecting me now.

These days, the power outages are more abusive than ever before. We barely get 2 or 3 hours of electricity out of the 24 in a day. Yesterday, when people arrived at my workplace, the most repeated comment was: “I just can’t take it anymore.”

Chronic fatigue is producing psychological effects on the people around me and probably on myself too. And I wish not being able to sleep were the only problem we had. I swear I try not to overload my mind with so much stress, and to some extent I succeed. I even confess that I’m preferring to be at work (remember I hate that place) rather than at home. There we have air conditioning and electricity all the time.

Writing on Hive is one of my solutions. It serves as a mental escape valve, but also as financial support. Thanks to my work, I’ve been able to stay so active these days.

When I’m not on Hive, I read a bit about Medicine or any other book I have pending. It’s frustrating to see so many new diagnostic and treatment modalities and not be able to apply them to the patients I see every day.

Anyway, preparing myself is good. I know that at some point I’ll need to be sharp. For today, I only ask for one thing: to be able to sleep better tonight. That way I can shake off a bit of this chronic fatigue from my back.

_{English isn't my native language.Text translated with DeepL}