What you have described here would have sent me into such a huge tailspin. I can't handle rapid change.

Heck, I was on the verge of a meltdown three years ago, when I had to go to hospital for an infusion, but on the same day, my father had to take my brother's Nissan X-Trail to the dealer to have its airbag replaced. My father and I had a plan that I would come straight home and go to the dealer to collect my brother's car and I came straight home, only to find the X-Trail parked on the driveway and my brother was nowhere to be seen. What happened was, my brother came over to lunch (unexpectedly) and the dealer rang to say that the car was ready and he took my father down to get it. My father could have rung me and said, "Your brother's come over for lunch and he'll take me down to get the car, instead." I was unnerved and had a meltdown last year when there was a football match on and my brother wanted to watch it, but be came over with his family. One plan was that I'd drive him home afterwards. Okay. Then, that I might have to drive his partner and kids home and then drive him home afterwards. All right. Then, his partner she could get a cab home, (No, Peter will drive you home). Right, there's your plan, stick to it. Then, after some booze, my sister-in-law said my brother could drive them home. "We've got a plan, stick to it!" Then, at the last minute, I was told that my brother would drive them home. I snapped, "This is the fifth change of plan in two days!"

Goals are important and strategies have to be stuck to, and the danger of having one day off is that it leads to two and so on. What I think is needed is balance. Thinking, "Okay, if you're tired, maybe working through it a bit. If you're sick, however, and feverish, you need a rest."