Rest is the best medicine

There is always the temptation when I’m holiday to think that my health problems haven’t come with me. Often my symptoms are less of a problem, but they are still there.

We’ve had a busy ten days since we got here and very busy and hectic time before we departed. I have taken care of what I’ve been eating and we had a good rest last weekend. Yet I am really tired and that’s often an omen for my bowel symptoms to flare-up.

Being so busy, excited and stressed has meant that I haven’t been sleeping too well and have been missing out on my 30-60 minute lie-down that I should have each afternoon. So it is time to reinstate proper rest and look after my body.

Resting in the afternoon should really not be a problem – most things shut down for at least a couple of hours for lunch and there is the Tour de France to watch at the moment. Also, when the summer finally arrives it is going to be hot in the afternoons.

The last few days I have watched the Tour de France. I have turned on the TV with about 100kms of the stage to go, laid down on the bed and usually woken up as the riders go through 10kms. As they have been flat stages, it has been the finish where the main excitement happens and they have been really exciting finishes.

So for the next week I can plan my rest around the cycling and hopefully by then it will have become an established pattern in my day.