First: Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are pretty much the same things. Which diagnosis an individual gets depends on the doctor she sees and whether she complains more about the pain or the fatigue. I’ve been diagnosed with both, but…
Ewww!
I woke up with the non-pregnancy version of morning sickness this morning, for no obvious reason. Gah. The family kindly let me sleep it off. Now I’m taking shadowkatt to do her yearly standardized testing. We’ll have dinner after that…
Good Things
Hot water on demand is a gift from the goddess. I have the internet to maintain connections with all you lovely people. My laptop makes it much easier to use the internet connection. My paraffin bath is marvelous, as long…
Ugh
Note to self: Talk to pain management doc about drugs for breakthrough pain. I’m very close to tears from the pain today. Let’s say it’s a 8.9 on the Mankowski scale. I’m really wishing I had someone else to get…
Great Date
sambear and I went to the Renaissance Festival today! It was wonderful. I didn’t feel like going this morning. That’s usually my worst time of day. But I knew that if I had to wimp out during the visit, Sam…
Silly Me
Reading LJ Community Polyamory means daily exposure to train wrecks. I wouldn’t do it at all if it weren’t that I like to see what the denizens of LJ Community Dot_Poly_Snark are chortling about. Someone deleted a snark post that…
Whoops – FMS Awareness Day
I was too busy/tired/distracted to mention that May 12 was Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. Want a gift for yourself or someone with a chronic health problem? There are cool goodies here at the CafePress store for But You Don’t Look Sick!,…
Ow!
One bee sting is bad enough. How about 25? Okay, to be fair they were injections of various sorts of insect venoms—bees, yellowjackets, hornets, etc. But damn if they didn’t sting, and my arms still hurt despite the fact that…
Random Verbosity
I need to do laundry. The dryer is making A Bad Noise. I think it has something to do with the drum, as it happens even when the machine is empty. It’s a scrape-y sort of noise. In happier news,…
Hmmm
State workers who smoke will pay more for insurance I’m utterly anti-smoking, although I figure people have a right to do what they want when it doesn’t affect others. This, however, alarms me as a trend. Note—it’s group insurance, not…