According to the doctor’s scales yesterday, I’ve lost 12 pounds in the last 4-6 weeks. I don’t feel any different and don’t think I look any different. Most of my clothes are already worn loose, so I guess I wouldn’t…
PTSD & Fibromyalgia
Posttraumatic Stress, Fibromyalgia Linked Chronic Pain Condition Seen in Half of Veterans With PTSD I recently started thinking about FMS as possibly being the physical equivalent of PTSD. Your entire system is hypersensitive, which leads to all manner of problems.…
Phone Dead :-(
The display on my cell phone died yesterday. The phone has been sputtering for a bit, but now it is well and truly dead. It’s over a year old and way past warranty. We can’t afford to replace it right…
Marvelous Group
Thanks to popefelix for letting me know about this incredible group! They help people who fall through the cracks—like us. Many of us. Those who have too much income for most public assistance programs, but who occasionally get hit with…
Blessing
The Director of Financial Aid at SPSU called me personally, not because of anything related to her job. She heard something about a connection between fibromyalgia and celiac disease, and she wanted to let me know in case it might…
QOTD
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. –Luther Burbank, horticulturist (1849-1926)
Medical Records Help?
GAH! Does anybody have any idea how I’d go about getting medical records from a hospital that closed in 1996? Surely their records had to go SOMEWHERE! I’ve talked to the state regulatory people, and they say most hospitals don’t…