What is Fibromyalgia? I thought about starting this blog off with some scientific information relating to fibromyalgia, what it is, how it's diagnosed, you know things like that, but it was rather boring so...here's a quickie about fibro. We'll get into the other things later.
The most frequent symptoms of fibromyalgia are wide spread muscle/joint pain and fatigue. Bone deep fatigue. The kind of fatigue you get when you haven't slept for 3 days straight and everything starts feeling like a Burtonesque hallucination and you try really hard to sleep but your brain keeps playing Cher's "Do You Believe" over...and over...and
But I've gotten ahead of myself.
Life with fibro is difficult. Draining. Demanding. Damn hard. Yet people with fibromyalgia have to do everything "normal" people have to do...clean their homes, make dinner, take care of the kids, work, all the day to day things that are second nature to non-fibro sufferers and we have to do most of it while having friends, family, doctors believing that our symptoms are all "in our heads". It's difficult to live life when most of your support system thinks you're faking your symptoms. So we fake being normal. We hide behind our smiles, behind "I'm fine" or "I'm feeling great!".
Faking Normal, I hope, will raise awareness of this debilitating disorder as well as giving you a laugh as I smile and say "I'm fine". ;)
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