This will be quick as I've been in major pain all day. Today illustrates one of those 'evil' principles of dealing with Fibro. Namely, what helped before may not help today. A lot of times if I soak in a very hot bath (with Epsom salts); that soaking seems to trigger an end to the…
What happens when you feel tired? Does the "Monster" take up residence behind your eyeballs? You know the one that whispers in your ear. Dis-couraging advice like: "Why bother?" "Give it up! You”ll never succeed." "Nobody wants your talents." "Why don’t you just jump…" I don’t remember where I first heard this advice, but it’s…
This is for Rumi T. SUPPORT Each of usIs aloneAndYet not. None but usLives insideThe bodyAndThe mind. None other can know, taste,savour the fear, terror,happiness, delight,and ecstasy. Pale empathiesWe share.Yet, living inside,AloneYields notCompleteness. In TruthWe are islands.We alone chooseInsular statusOrConstruct bridges,Causeways,And, paths to others. Connections are madeNot from oneRather the reachingOut of two. You will…
So, the leg is acting up… Hurts like freakin hell. Doc, says (this time) could be Sciatica. Swell, that’s diagnosis 4 1/2. Didn’t take the good drugs on the weekend… ran out. Man oh man, ya appreciates drugs when ya don’t got em. Just off the phone with my favourite clinical pschologist Dr. Karen Shue….
If you’ve been following along these last 13 days, you know that I somehow ‘injured’ my left leg. I put injured in quotes for a couple of reasons. One, none of the medical professionals I talked to really knew what was wrong… or what happened… or why. Two, something I read yesterday, causes me to…
When you are dealing with non-specific pain like that associated with fibromyalgia, lupus, MS, nerve damage, and others — it usually takes more than a pretty pink pill to end it. I’ve been grappling with severe, lengthy episodes of pain since the Fall of 2002. And, I’ve tried a lot of things to make that…
One of the joys of Fibro is the "pain in the butt" feeling. Apparently, tender points are the cause. But, what causes tender points? According to Dr. Stuart Donaldson of Myosymmetries tender points and other pain associated with Fibro is ’caused’ by "bad messaging" between the brain and muscles [my words]. As I understand it,…
My current newsletter talks about replacing resolutions with practices. My morning’s walk is a time for exercise, reflection, dreaming, and planning. This morning it occured to me that what had made a real difference in my pain level were the practices I had instituted. So, I thought to ask my inner guides what the #1…
I’m just back from four days in beautiful Lake Louise . Four days of eating, resting, walking, eating — and, did I say resting? I knew before I left that I was tired. But, I didn’t realize how tired I was until I slowed down. How often has that happened to you? Worse yet, how…
John Sarno says , pain is created by the subconcious to distract us from emotions that need/want to be released. If that’s the case how do we deal with pain that has that orgin? Why care? Why not just ‘put up with it’? Or, "tough it out’? You can. You can keep going in spite…