A Lesson on Fibro Masking

A perfect example:

Thursday, I was about the worst I've been in 2017. I was sitting on the couch, in recliner position. Buddy came running to jump into my lap, but forgot that the couch is higher than the floor and slammed, chest-first, into my left foot. He was fine, always is. My foot hurt a little, but nothing compared to how the rest of me was feeling. 

Friday morning, still feeling pretty cruddy. About half an hour after I woke up, I happened to look at my left foot. Clearly two broken toes, one not even facing exactly in the right direction. Both purple. So, I taped them up and wore slippers all day.

Saturday, out running errands, still taped. Part way through my toes started noticeably hurting. That's how I really knew that the fibro was getting better. No more fibro masking any 'real' pain I was experiencing. 

Make sense now?

Thanksgiving

Interesting timing...

I don't skip work for Fibro. I usually refuse to, preferring to fight through whatever is ailing me that day. And I hate leaving my room to someone else -- and sub plans, yuck! 

Today, I would have called in sick. I am so far from functional. But no sub plans needed, since it's a holiday, no school. 

A reason to be Thankful?

Nothing...

Just the usual. Lots of seizures lately, and occasionally bilateral. That's about the only news. But I felt like writing. So I am.

Public Service Announcement

Just FYI, having seizures while changing tires is NOT recommended. 

Oops... Forgot to Post a Fun One!

This was about a week ago... how could I have kept it from my adoring fans?

I woke up, and my lower legs weren't legs. After a few moments of frustration, I realized what my calves and feet felt like. They were bowling pins, upside down so the small round part was what I was trying to walk on. Frustration flew out the window, and laughter took over. Of course, laughing didn't make the process of learning to walk on them easier, but if sure made it more fun!

New, but Not Improved...

Hoo, boy...

Not a happy camper here. Twice within the last three days, I've had the arm curling kind of seizures -- nothing unusual there -- but they've been bilateral. First off, I almost never get those in the left arm, just the right. Even when I occasionally do get left ones, the right arm has always been fine. Not these two times. Both arms, almost perfectly symmetrical. 

The big worry here is that usually when one arm is going at it, the other one takes up any slack with what I am trying to accomplish. I am at a loss, trying to figure out how I can do that when both arms curl up...

Any suggestions?

Not Sure if I have Posted This One...

One of the ways Fibro does its thing is giving me the flu without the flu. I mean, I just about always have the aches and pains part, so it isn't that much of a stretch. The malaise, the draggy feeling? Those also come from the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Headaches are headaches. The weakness? Yeah, that can happen on its own, too. The strong feeling that getting out of bed isn't going to work? Heck, that can come from not wanting to get out of bed. But when they all hit within a few minutes of each other? I call that getting the flu without getting the flu. No digestive symptoms, just everything else. In fact, the way I feel confident that I don't have the flu is that I'm hungry. 

So I'm eating my way through it...