{"id":156,"date":"2012-06-24T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T17:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debbiepetrina.authorsxpress.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-06-24T10:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T17:51:54","slug":"mschronic-illness-rest-is-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"MS\/Chronic Illness:  Rest is Critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cRecharge those Batteries\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 24, 2012<\/p>\n<p>This should have been posted last Monday the 18th.\u00a0 I forgot.\u00a0 Fatigue will do that to you.\u00a0 But I will post it anyway, since \u201clater is better than never\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>I am going to follow my own advice I give to others with MS or chronic illnesses:\u00a0 Take breaks and rest often to restore mental, emotional and physical stress.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t been doing that.\u00a0 I\u2019m exhausted, crabby, in overload and have writer\u2019s block from pushing myself too hard.\u00a0 With symptoms intensifying, if I don\u2019t slow down I will relapse.<\/p>\n<p>So I am declaring myself on vacation this week and heading for the mountains to camp.\u00a0 No TV, phone, computer or reading.\u00a0 Just enjoying nature, sleeping, and visiting other nice campers.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I will be back with another article to post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.DebbieMS.com\">www.DebbieMS.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecharge those Batteries\u201d June 24, 2012 This should have been posted last Monday the 18th.\u00a0 I forgot.\u00a0 Fatigue will do that to you.\u00a0 But I will post it anyway, since \u201clater is better than never\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026.. I am going to follow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/?p=156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[96,134,169,276,295,325,372],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symptoms","tag-chronic-illness-information","tag-fatigue","tag-managing-ms","tag-ms-relapses-or-flareups","tag-ms-symptoms","tag-multiple-sclerosis-information","tag-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiepetrina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}