Getting Healthy

I'm feeling wonderful. I went to the doctor a week ago and the meds are working great. Now I want to start getting healthier. My wonderful sister told me that she would start walking with me in the evenings. The only thing I need to work on now is learning to like veggies. My mom and dad tried to get me to eat them but I just hated them. Now I wish I would have made a better effort to like them. It's funny because I always put veggies on my boy's plates but never on mine. But the reason I do that is because I don't want the to be like me and hate veggies. I'm just happy that I'm feeling better, I know I will never be cured. But I will take how I'm feeling these days over any of my bad days.

It's going to be a great week!

Today is going to be a good day. I'm not hurting to bad. Its my day off and I'm spending the day with my boys and my husband. I've had some hard days last week. The pain got so bad one day I was vomiting and thought I was going to die. But I'm feeling alot better this week, even though its just Monday and I haven't even made it through the first day of the week. lol Tomorrow is my husband and I's eight year anniversary. Wow time flies, we have been together for twelve years. I still remember the first song we ever danced to...Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight. My husband has blessed me with the greatest gift I could ever ask for, the gift of being a mother. Even on my darkest days my boys always know how to brighten them up. I love them all so much.

It's Cold

Believe it or not the weather really does cause people pain. It's snowing today and my whole body is hurting. I have a weird tingling feeling from my head to my toes.  I'm glad I'm off work tomorrow. I'm staying inside by the fire and enjoying time with my boys. :-) But I'm sure they will be wanting to play in the snow. I'll let there daddy go out with them. lol

Better Days

Well today was interesting day. I woke up and today my back felt 10 times better, but my neck felt like I had a huge knot in it. I love how you never know what part of your body is going to hurt from day to day. As the day went on my back and shoulder starting hurting again. Sometimes its hard to concentrate on what I'm doing when the pain gets bad. The thing about it is I smiled and went on about my day. I smile to cover up how I'm really feeling. I went out to eat with my family tonight and had a great time laughing and talking about the craziest things. So my motto today is laughter is the best medicine. :-)

Pain Pain Go Away

Well this the third day in a row my back is killing me. Even though my its killing me I had to get up and get my day started. We spent the whole day getting a new car (well used but new to us) and I absolutely love it. It made a dark cloudy week look a little brighter. You know I know that it sounds corney but I guess when life gives you lemons make lemonade is my motto right now and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I'm taking it one day at time.

Learning A Little More Each Day

Today my back has ached and burned all day. I put on a good front, to everyone but sometimes it hurts so bad I want to cry. When I got to my mother and father in law's house my mother in law Margaret made mexican chicken and it was so delicious. Not that it takes the pain away but it sure made me happy. My husband and I are blessed to have such wonderful parents who are always here for us even when we are at our lowest. I guess I haven't explained when I first found out I had fibro, I was 22 years old my mom and dad had invited me and my oldest son who was my only child at the time to go swimming at the Mulberry River. My sister and her husband and their two children were there as well as my brother and his child. It was a beautiful day and we were having a blast swimming and just hanging out in the sun. I had set my son who was around 18 months old down on a towel and I was about to sit down beside him. Then it hit me the sharpest pain that felt like it was going straight through my heart to my back. Everyone came running over and were trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I could barely talk because the pain was so bad. All I could say was get me to the hospital which was about 45 minutes away. So my mom and dad got me into there truck and rushed me to the hospital. I will never forget my dad holding my hand telling me to hold on that I was going to be ok. I kept looking at my son and I told them to call my husband who had went fishing with his dad and grandpa that day. When I made to the hospital of course they took my blood to do a test to see if I was on some type of drug. Then after the results came back negative they gave me a shot of morphine, well that didn't work. The pain was still terrible, so after 7 shots my husband told them not to give me anymore because it was working for one thing and come to find out I was allergic to morphine. I had an EKG done and MRI done that day. After about 4 hours the pain started easing and my doctor kept me over night for observations. The next day I had a terrible head ache from the morphine but my pain had gotten a lot better. I was released and went home to rest. My doctor called me later that day and told me that my EKG had shown that I had Mitral Valve Prolapse of the heart and she wanted me to come in for her to do more tests the next day. After all the testing, I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and I was her youngest patient at the time who had it. This would be the first of many trips to the doctor and many new medications. Also, it would not be last time I had to be hospitalized....

Things Change

Today I have learned that things change, no matter how much you don't want it to change. I got up thinking this is going to be a good day and it changed rapidly. I'm just going to have faith that everything is going to be better and keeping on keeping on.....