The one thing about chronic illness is life comes at you with lightning speed. This brings unexpected reactions from your emotional, and physical self. These past two weeks I(the cared for) became the care giver. What a role change!! Talking about having to pull deep, my mom became sick and had to have a major operation. I had to take her back and forth to appointments and to surgery. This gave me an opportunity to really feel what the caregivers may feel. I was unexplainably tired but had to pull from weeks of spoons to get it done. Now that everything has slowed down some, recovery is in process. I’m happy to be somewhat back on my schedule and hope now to stack my spoons back up.