Sep 16, 2020 | Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
The medical community doesn’t talk about the grief. They don’t mention that at some point you’ll realize just how much your life has changed and it will hit you like a ton of bricks. They don’t talk about the despair and the anger–oh how...
Dec 31, 2019 | Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
Unless you have a really good physician, and few fibromyalgia patients do, you’ll either hear that every symptom you have is part of your fibromyalgia and there won’t be any attempts to look beyond the diagnosis (and billing code) in your chart, or...
Dec 24, 2019 | Fibromyalgia Gone Wild
As I mentioned in my blog on the new schedule/writing plans, I’m beginning a weekly column entitled Fibromyalgia Gone Wild. I do this as part of my memoir, Chronically Disposable, as well as in the face of the issues that chronic pain patients are now bringing...
Dec 22, 2019 | horse stuff
This fall has been rough on me. With the sinus infection-bronchitis-pansinusitis and now my doctor tells me that my chronic sinusitis, which honestly I’ve had for years, is all a part of my fibromyalgia getting worse, not to mention the change in my work...