It’s going to sound absurd, but Charlie’s Angels prepared me for life with multiple chronic illnesses. I may have been born in the late ’60s,
Category: Chronic Illness

Living with one or multiple chronic illnesses involves a LOT of waiting. We wait for doctor appointments, test results, pain relief, cures, diagnoses, people to

Do you know how to spot someone with a chronic illness? Grab your binoculars, looking glasses, and detective kits, because today I am going to

Before greatly reducing my daily chronic pain level, I worried about how far or long I could be away from home. The fears that my

There was a site that had this and I had linked to it on Tumblr but it is gone. So I had to hunt down

Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, 2012, states Juvenile Fibromyalgia (JFM) is correlated with 40% of children and teenagers who also have benign hypermobility (HM). In fact,

Squirrel!!! Sorry, this little guy amused the heck out of me. I took at least fifteen shots of him going up and down this tree

Venturing out of my abode got me thinking about fickle fibromyalgia pain. Recently I have been thinking about the variety of FM symptoms because some

You are not your illness I always have a bit of a problem with these statements. On the one hand, yes, I don’t want to

There has been a great deal of concern over the addition of Somatic Symptom Disorder’s (SSD) addition to the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)