Tell Me a Fairy Tale

To my friends blessed with good health, I need to live vicariously right now. Tell me a fairy tale. Tell me what it's like to live without pain and exhaustion and struggle with everything you do. Describe a day in your life. Describe what it's like to wake everyday not dreading how you'll get through. Seriously.

I can count on one hand the number of good days I've had in the last year, days without pain, without some type of illness, feeling fully cogent, alive, alert, and energetic, and none of those days were consecutive.

I really need to hear good news, good health, be reminded of what it's like. This week hasn't been any harder than any other in the last year, but after so long, having the same level of difficulty each week after week after week without change only makes it harder, because it feels like there's no end in sight. It's rather like our economy. My jobless friends--most of them--finally have jobs, but for all those months and months and months of waiting, worrying, starving, it helped each of them to hear the good news as others started getting work. more and more. Hope and an end in sight.

I don't have either right now. Please tell me a tale. You can make it up, if you'd like.

(x-posted 1st part from FB)