Ever wished you could spend the whole day in bed? I know you have, on more than one occasion!

Just like me a day of peace, rest and true relaxation would be a true pleasure. In my case a dream come true. Mum would often say when I was younger, "Be careful what you wish for"

This was one of those days that you do often wish for. But in the midst of lying here in a pain that grips in not just one place, I sit in a semi prone position to allow some sight through the bedroom window of daylight. Gloomy as it is, the bare branches and some large stalks of green sway to the wind that blows.

Even the brick walls seem moist with the rain that fell overnight. Cars parked with damp remnants of morning, clinging to the windscreens. For morning it seems quite still and almost surreal, almost as if not only was it my body that was on a go slow, the whole world had stopped still.

The tired heaviness of my eyes is not an, any day experience. Trying to raise ones eye lids has caused such weariness. The puffy lids filled with fluid and as I touch underneath my lashes they too are swollen. Looking into the reflection of the portable television screen, I capture a vision that dampens me to the core! Gosh, I look rough.  

Throughout the day the hours are missed with a sleep that does not want to leave these weary muscles. Each swallow dry's the throat and everything tasted is bland. The disinterest you have in all that surrounds you, the conversation of household members, the radio or T.V sounds are a faded background murmur lost in daze that does not awake the senses!

Would nothing today be enjoyable or easier to bare? Just as my eyes close into slumber for the fifth hundredth time, my little child enters the room asking "Mummy, you alright?" "Come on get up it is nearly night time".

Where had it gone? A whole day in bed, forced upon me. Just then our small puppy was launched onto the bed. "Here Mummy, this will cheer you up and make you better".

Yet again it only took a little person with a little voice to make the endurance of a difficult day, worth waiting for the next!