The Spoon Theory
I love this way of describing Addison's Disease. Suppose when you wake up in the morning, you wake up with this example set of spoons below. If you are Addison's you have the bottom set, if average healthy person you have the top set. Task throughout your day cost you a spoon. When you run out of spoons you run out. When you are out of spoons, if you borrow spoons from tomorrow then you will have less spoons for tomorrow. When all the spoons are used you have none. you cant go get more. So someone with Addison's Disease has to plan each day to further the spoons. we wake up each day to take a steroid that replaces cortisol to be able to have these spoons. When we let these spoons all run out without replacing our cortisol, this can cause us to crash and sleep for many hours or worse , an Addison Crisis.. As you can tell by the spoons that our daily abilities are limited. by Malisha Fuller
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