If I'm in the car, I'm listening to Dave Ramsey. I really enjoy hearing the callers, shaking my head at the stupid ones and celebrating with the ones that have made smart choices to find their way to debt freedom. Recently, I caught the episode where he interviewed Max Lucado about his new book … [Read more...]
Coping with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Illness
Inspiration and thoughts on how to improve coping skills when dealing with Fibromyalgia, chronic pain, fatigue, and invisible illness.
The Role of Guilt & Blame in Chronic Illness
Do you allow guilt and blame to be major actors in your life? When we live with chronic illness, it seems like guilt is often our number one sidekick. And, his shadow is blame, too often pointed back at ourselves. Leah over at Chronicles of Fibromyalgia posted about "The Distraction of … [Read more...]
The Advantage of Fibro Fog: It’s hard to hold a grudge
Fibro Fog is one of the most annoying symptoms we deal with. It's frustrating beyond all belief! But, today I realized there is one HUGE upside to "the Fog" - we forget a lot of bad things, too. It's so much easier to forgive and forget and move-on, when your memory just isn't there to start … [Read more...]
The Varying Levels of Migraine
Wednesday afternoon: Migraines have been an issue for me for a very long time. I have just about every "type" of migraine you can find, including what is listed as rather rare - The Cluster Migraine. Most of the time, I can tolerate them and/or they don't stick around in such a way that drastically … [Read more...]
Why Fibromyalgia Sufferers May be LESS Empathetic
According to this study that was recently published, female Fibromyalgia patients have less of a neural response when seeing others in pain (we are less empathetic). Now, I read this and I was surprised for a moment. I think I'm a pretty empathetic person. I hate to see others in pain, if someone … [Read more...]
Two juice recipes
I've been dealing with a nasty cluster headache this week. When the pain is bad all I can do is move around to try to distract myself from it. When the pain passes I'm typically just wiped out and feel pretty much like I'm dealing with Fibro. This week has been pretty much like dealing with Fibro. … [Read more...]
The Storm After the Calm: Learning to tolerate pain
This flare is going on a week and it's some of the worst pain I've had in over a year. But then I wonder... "Is it really?". Is it really the worst pain I've had in a year? Or does it just feel that way because it followed such a nice period of (almost) pain-free calm? I've often felt like we … [Read more...]
Review: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Fibromyalgia
What Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Fibromyalgia: Why Doctors Can't or Won't Treat Chronic Pain The title is misleading.I almost didn't read this book (leaving it on the shelf with so many others) because of the title and what I expected to find inside. What I expected to find was yet another "How … [Read more...]
Entertaining With Fibro: The Holiday Edition
We found out this last weekend that we will be hosting Christmas at our house for my husband's family. There's a lot of them. I haven't really hosted anything here at the house in the last year for a variety of reasons. It's not that I don't enjoy hosting (I do), but at this point it's … [Read more...]
What To Do When Your Plan Fails?
Write a New Plan! At least that's my answer.I've posted recently about my new plan to work on pacing and also actually keep up with house cleaning. I'd worked out a system using Remember the Milk to help me keep track of all that needed to be done and mark it off as it was done. Knowing that there … [Read more...]
