My Costco Test
For many people with chronic illness, they have to learn a "new" normal. Whether it's dealing with pain, or learning how to make it through a week with debilitating fatigue or other symptoms, these sufferers have learned many tricks. But no matter how many tricks or adaptations are made, there are always times when it is forgone and the previous normal is tested out again, usually to some detriment. For me, this is tested at Costco. It is one place that I just cannot let go of, mostly because there are items I prefer to get there, for both price-wise and convenience. But Costco is the place that stimulates some of the most symptoms for me, and is therefore is the barometer of how well I am doing with my health. Even on those seemingly good days, Costco's lights and fast pace, the aisles that require turning my head back and forth, people rushing around me, the loudness, the smells, the walking or even riding the scooters- it becomes too much. I become dizzy, nause...