How often do you avoid doing something because you are worried about how it will make you feel? How much time do you spend worrying about tomorrow? What could happen? Instead of living life to the fullest? As I read Sue Ingbretson's article on Rehearing Positivity, and I couldn't help but relate … [Read more...]
3 Steps for Reducing the Stress of Prescriptions
If there's one thing that those of us with chronic illness know, it's dealing with pills. It seems that our lives are nothing but pills at times. Keeping up with our pill schedule, knowing if we've taken the right pill at the right time can add a huge layer of stress to an already stressful … [Read more...]
The whole is more important than in individual part
I fired my Physical Therapist today. A few weeks ago I posted that the Pelvic Pain specialist I saw recommended that I do physical therapy for the abdominal pain and the vaginal pain I've been dealing with for a while. He suggested a particular PT place in my area that does the vaginal work. … [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...]
Healthcare Expenses and Taxes
Most everyone knows by now that you may be able to write off healthcare expenses if they are a high enough percentage of your income. However, I wanted to pass on a couple of things that I learned from my accountant yesterday, that may help you.1. Healthcare expenses includes pretty much everything … [Read more...]
Balancing Life with Fibromyalgia
This article on WebMD is especially appropriate for this time of year. Christmas is two weeks away and if you are like me, you've spent the last three or more weeks trying to balance all the responsibilities of life. You've still got to do all the normal day to day things, working, taking care of … [Read more...]
If I don’t do it, no one else will
Many reports show that most of us with Fibromyalgia are "Type A"/ Control Freak / Perfectionist personalities. Over and over at support group and online I hear "If I don't do it, no one else will" or "If I let someone else do it, I'll just have to re-do it anyway". At some point you do have to learn … [Read more...]
Handling the Holidays
The holidays are a stressful time for anyone but I think for those of us with Fibro or other chronic issues that leave us tired and stressed, the holidays just make matters worse. In our case, the last few years we've pulled double duty on Thanksgiving day, driving an hour to have lunch with my … [Read more...]
Pushing the Limits: Entertaining With Fibro
I've been feeling better lately, not wonderful, but much better than I was through July and August. Life is getting back to normal finally and with that I've been feeling a lot better. I still have pain and such but overall I'm sleeping better (most nights) and instead of not feeling like I can do … [Read more...]
Can you Turn that Down? Sensitivity to Noise
I'm really not doing well with noise today. There are days when I can't even stand to have the tv on, and it seems that this is one of my "quiet" days. The problem is that I have a contractor here installing sidelight windows on our door, which equals lots of noise. That level of noise (the power … [Read more...]
