Charlie’s Angels And My Chronic Illness
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, but I am a child…
Does the waiting ever end in Chronic Life?
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 understand, and so much more. …
HOW TO SPOT SOMEONE WITH A CHRONIC ILLNESS
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 share how to spot someone…
5 Benefits of Walking Indoors with Fibromyalgia
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 chronic illnesses created prevented me…
100 Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
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 someone who found my post…
Can hypermobility increase pain in Juvenile Fibromyalgia syndrome?
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, in adults hypermobility is an…
Camping adventures
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 to get little pieces of…
Fickle Fibromyalgia: my pain flare stories
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 of them overlap with chronic…
You are not your illness?
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 be defined by my illness…
Fibromyalgia and chronic pain in danger of being labeled a mental disorder
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) because of the potential for…