But You Don’t Look Sick . . .

This was sent in an e-zine I subscribe to (But You Don’t Look Sick). I highly recommend it to anyone who has, or who had a friend or family member who has, a chronic illness – especially one of the inflammatory diseases (fibromyalgia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, polyarteritis nodosum, ankylosing spondylitis, etc).
My Roulette Kinda Life
I remember [...]

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Tips for dealing with people in pain

NOTE: I have been trying to reach the author of this wonderful set of tips for permission to publish. My attempts have been in vain. The author is in England, and I would love to hear from her!!
In the meantime, however, I just need to go ahead an publish it. Please take these to [...]

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Pain Meds

I pulled up 3x Thursday, and, amazingly enough, this was one of the questions for today:
How do you feel about pain meds? Do you like them? Do you condone the use of them for anything other than what they were prescribed for? Why/why not?
(I’m ignoring the other two questions.)
So, I’m forced to think about my [...]

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If Today I Should Die -

From the rock, I’ve been sleepily looking out at the Pond today. Can’t seem to wake up, can’t seem to drop off and go ahead to sleep. Weird bodily sensations. Not pain, except muscles and joints – they are as usual during flare.
Couldn’t decide what was wrong. Got to thinking – maybe I’m dying.
Don’t much [...]

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The Obliterator -

I am reading Eldest by Christopher Paolini. Even if one does not take into consideration that this is the second looooooong book of a trilogy, written by a very young man (he began when he was 15 and is now only 21), it is very well written. Oh, of course I have some picky things [...]

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