Naga (he/him)I usually vote by mail because I've been housebound with severe #MECFS for two years. I missed the timeline for returning my absentee ballot for an election Tuesday, in large part because of being #housebound--these days a calendar is something that happens to other people.
So Jalan drove me yesterday to vote curbside (i.e., through the car window) at an early-voting site. We also needed to pick up prescriptions. We were out about an hour, with me never getting out of the car.
Notably, the last time I was out of the house (other than an emergency hospitalization in November) was to vote curbside in early October last year.
Friends and neighbors, going out broke me. Most days, I spend most of the time in my lift chair in the living room before moving to the bedroom sometime late afternoon or evening, where we have, in addition to bed, another, very comfortable, recliner.
Yesterday, though, we were home by around 2pm, I couldn't leave the bedroom the rest of the day. Sometimes sleeping, constantly in pain (more than baseline), hypersensitive to sound and light, all the terrible.
I hate this.
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