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Spoon Theory… A Spoonful of Sugar Doesn’t Always Cut It with Chronic Illness!
When I was younger, I was obsessed with the comedian, Dane Cook. Don’t judge me, I was once young and fancy free. He had this skit about a kid who becomes obsessed with snorting Nestle Quik, the chocolate powder. Anyway, one of the jokes from this skit was the kid saying “I can’t kick the ball today, I just can’t!” He was saying it because he was hooked on the cocaine-like addictiveness of the chocolate Nestle Quik drink but it stuck with me. In case you think I’m insane – check out the skit here. On days when I was not really ready to take on the day, I started…