How does that song go? “Rainy days and Mondays (or insert any day of the week really) always get my down”.. sigh… Well today IS my Monday really, as my honey just had his two days off, and he is headed back to work today -AND- It has been non stop rain the last few days…. and I am really quite BLAH…
I find having multiple diagnoses isn’t easy sometimes… There can be such a domino effect and just when I think I can’t handle anymore POOF here comes another symptoms of another problem…. This is how the domino effect has worked this past week:
1. Here comes the nasty FM flare… sore, achy, burning pain, tight muscles… it is hard to sleep because I wake myself up each time I roll over…
2. 2 nights with disturbed sleep, and then the insomnia really kicks in… I am always sitting on the insomnia fence, and could easily go either way each and every day… It takes one ‘off’ night and then I suffer from insomnia for weeks…
3. After a really bad sleep, I am stumbling around the house and not watching my footing as much as I should, and I blow both of my SI joints out…. AGONY!!!! My ligaments are shot, and I cannot even go to the chiropractor to get them reset… I just have to wait it out….
4. The strain on my ligaments kicks up full body ligament pain AND everything is hyper-sensitive… Each time I move I get nerve pain shooting through my legs… and hips… and refers up my back and down my arms… groan…
5. Had to walk with my cane yesterday – which makes me SO mad.. I haven’t used it in over a year and I had to actually search for it and dust it off… I had some errands to do and I was too pig-headed to let my honey do them for me… so I walked with my cane instead… which had made my myofascial pain rear its ugly head.. My body automatically over-compensates, so my strong side is just as sore as my weak side now…
6. My stomach gets effected by the meds AND the pain… so I stop eating… and my acid-reflux causes me to sit in the kitchen all night.. while everyone else is sleeping, I am sipping club soda and apple-cider vinegar to neutralize the acid so it will stop burning my throat and chest…
7. I don’t know if it is physical or mental stress from the above 1-6… but my endometriosis issues wake up and say hello… stomach cramps, spotting, burning, pelvic floor spasms… yuck..
Okay, okay, okay world… I have enough on my plate now!!! We can stop anytime now!!! Sigh…. a day in the life of a ‘Chronic’…
Today my honey goes back to work, and I will be all alone for 12 hours with a hyper puppy, a pile of laundry, dried pee on the carpet that needs to be cleaned up… I have to plan for Father’s Day dinner, wrap a few gifts, finish the bag I started knitting for my little dude’s teacher for an end-of-the-year present, clean the kitchen, prepare dinner for tonight, call my doctor’s office, call the spa… and somewhere in between try to go to the bathroom (thanks to the meds and my back pain that might be impossible today), and soak in the tub….
Yep, rainy days and MY Mondays always get me down…. 
But the thing is… for as rough as the last few days have been, I have been truly blessed by all the ‘Life-lines” I have out there… and if you are reading this, you are one of them…. Each email, comment, message you have sent me means the absolute world to me…. Each prayer that wings its way to me, each cyber-hug I get to ‘feel’… they keep me going on bad rainy days such as this one… So I wanted to say thank you so very much to all of you…
Before I started Graceful Agony I spent MANY of these days alone on the couch or in my bed…. I KNEW there were people out there just like me that were doing the same… but NOW I get to share in both the good and the bad days with my ever-growing family here. All of your love, support, encouragement, and strength propels me through the bad days… It means more to me than you will ever know.
So while it looks gloomy and dark outside today, it isn’t really…
While its raining… you can’t have a rainbow without the sunshine… and YOU.. my Graceful Agony Family are my rainbow.
You are my rainbow...
So there has to be sun shining somewhere…… I’m working on letting it in…
Thank you….
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That domino effect sounds pretty tough. Anyone would be feeling a bit down after that little lot. I always think being ill would be so much easier if I could have a maid!! Then at least you could just focus on being ill and the long list of things that needs doing would get done and you would be stress free. That’s my fantasy anyway!
I would like to join the family and send you a little cyber hug. Hurry up honey, you’re needed at home!!
xx
so sorry ur havin all those issues at once. i am having several of my illnesses goin strong lately too. feeling very blue…but i am strong..i will win over it. we will both come thru it. i would write more, but i am just so fatigued right now i can’t, so maybe later…just wanted u to know i’;m thinkin of ya and luv ya! xoxox
Tammy
I think it’s contagious . . . it’s not raining here, but I got up with a migraine and had to call in to work with the ankle . . . at least my GM appreciates the fact that I didn’t make them file a report (they’re trying for a certain number of days with no accidents – LOL) Even with that, I’m obviously having a MUCH better day than you are.
Sending tons of sunshine your way . . .
Wendy
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Well I know you know I have been bed bound for 6 days now. I think it is a mixture of the weather and stress – for me anyway.
I hate the domino affect. I cannot get people to understand that. You start off with one symptom/illness and get it under control only to have the other one kick in. It’s like you live in a circular fashion, riding out one illness to the next only to start over again.
I’m sorry you are having such a horrible patch. Sending you more hugs, more prayers, and hoping for sunny, warm weather for all of us!
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