"Come on, you can do better than that"

"Come on, you can do better than that" the old man told me as he saw me laboriously bike by.  Sorry sir, I really can't.  My legs and arms are numb and while they move, I have no feeling in them.  My head floats as if on a stick, and I have no ability to read, concentrate or even remember what I did yesterday without sitting down and struggling to reconstruct my day.  I have read about 200 pages of Mein Kamp (not exactly a page turner) in two weeks.  That is crazy.  It should have taken me three days TOPS.  Even at work I struggle to comprehend what I read.  I feel like a demented Alzheimer's patient, except I am too damned sick to care--just try to keep going Tita.