Should be Interesting...

Well, the school year is wrapping up. We finish with regular classes tomorrow, then on to intensives...

My afternoon one will be a challenge. I'm teaching Havana Nights -- a bit of cultural studies, mostly Latin Ballroom Dance. We shall see how the body holds up.

I'd rather nap, but the students requested dancing...

Rough day, but...

Yeah... 

Really painful right arm seizures at school today -- the tightened up kind. Since one of our T.A.s was in the room, I was able to go to the staff room to run my arm under cold water to ease up the pain a little. One of my coworkers came in, and I explained what I was doing... and he immediately dropped what he was doing to check the freezer for an ice pack. Cold water works better than ice packs for these, but just the act was so kind. He checked in on me back in my room about 15 minutes later.

It's really good being in such a supportive environment. 

Pretty much the same...

Yeah, broken record. And bones. Occasional punctured lung or two. Missing limbs. Muscles that feel like a tiger used them as a scratching post.

And days like this one, with all of the above.

I've hit the motherlode... 

Whooosh...

Everything has been going along pretty much as previously posted, so I haven't really felt like posting. 

And then came today...

Nice morning, feeling pretty good. Went running errands, fine. A friend came over to hang out for a while, good. Then about an hour later, I started... well... aging? Yeah, some ribs breaking, but that came with scoliosis (I think -- is that the one old people get that causes them to curl forward?). Couldn't walk regularly, had to shuffle. One of the few times that I have really wondered if I was going to come out of it functional/alive. Fought that for an hour or so, and then indeed drifted out of it. Cocoa and a scone helped...

Well, yeah...

New experience. Had both kinds of seizure at the same time, both in the right arm. That was Sunday... or maybe Saturday. In the grocery store. Not amusing.

Then I had one of my 'everything hardening up, curling up' types of seizures that my right arm is so fond of, except it was both upper legs instead. That was Tuesday. In the classroom. Not amusing.

So, taking bets here. Am I going to have an unamusing new experience Thursday, or Friday? And where will it be? I'm placing my bet on Colonel Mustard, in the Conservatory, with the Wrench.

Complaint Form...

Yeah, nothing funny about today's post. Sorry about that. I just need to gripe.

The curl-up tension seizure things are getting worse. Having more of them, some of which are more intense. No medical help, grrrr... 

That's really all I've got here. Needed to complain. Done. Thanks.

Fibro is Evil

So, the other day I started driving home, and then my arm broke, like shattered broke, not snapped broke. It was incredibly painful, and took everything I could do just to keep the car moving safely -- while cussing up a storm.

Ten minutes later, it was just sore.

So within 15 minutes, I was cruising along at a comfy 3 out of 6 on the pain scale, zoomed up to about 5-3/4, and ended at a reasonable 4-1/4. 

E-vil.