FEW or MANY friends -- For us with our invisible disabilities/fatigue

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Hi all,

I have friends I can count on my one hand. The ones that stick/stuck with you

through the worse and best of times. I am sitting here wondering how many of

us with EDS and other invisible disabilities have many friends. From work in

particular. The few friends I had who use to visit me got tired of me never

visiting them. A drive of more than 30 minutes was pure misery. Too bad I did

not

know why years ago.

I was thinking how as a rule at work, I never hung out afternoon or evenings.

I went straight home to recover for the next work day. The idea of going out

or going out lunch time with the guys to the mall was unbearable. So in the

end I find I had few friends at work.

Of course my older age group did not help. But even in my twenties and

thirties I was a home body :-). So, a trip the mall was VERY rare. Looking back

at

my childhood my parents were the same way. They went to work and came home.

They took their pain meds and rested until the next day of work. Caro