I suppose I have been sharing more about living with chronic pain syndrome and what it feels like to spend most of the day lying down in pain. For the purpose of this post, I hope to rant a little bit. Just a tiny conversation between you and me. It will be our secret. There…
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Chronic Pain Syndrome
If you had told me three years ago that the pain I experienced was due to trauma, I would have laughed. But now, I know it’s true, as the sky is blue. The last few months have taught me what it means to become disabled and how to keep living when the world forgets you…
I have achieved hell-level chronic pain
Not everyone can have the trifecta of pain delivered all at once. But since I am an overachiever and a perfectionist, I managed to achieve a combination of three different sources of pain without trying. The last time I was in that much pain was in August. Let me tell you what happened to start…
Chronic Pain and The Rain
They told me that the weather might affect me later in life, but I did not believe them, and I thought it was an old wives’ tale. Now I am in so much pain because a rain system has hunkered down in the state where I live. One storm after the other comes across the…
Fibromyalgia and I
As I write this my knees are going through a certain type of puberty, trying to decide whether they want to be hot or cold. In truth my knees are swollen and I keep trying to get my husband to buy me new knee caps but it seems that he isn’t going for it. Fibromyalgia…
Spice and Nice 