mystic_savage

It's been long enough since I've had a full-blown stretch of fibro symptoms that I had forgotten what they were like.  A couple of weeks ago I was reminded what the pain was like -- body on fire from the inside out, all over achiness, feeling flu-ish and exhausted and crabby, getting IBS symptoms, the works.  I had it for 3-4 days and it got better each day and had mostly dissipated by the time I got to the doctor last week.  Then this weekend, I must have over done it again.  Little sleep plus lots of effort reorganizing my room.  Stayed home yesterday to try to sleep and recover, but the achiness continued into today.  Went to work, but the pain was so bad I was crying on and off for 3-4 hours this morning.  So:

I've got an appointment with Group Health's pain clinic -- April 10th;
I've downloaded music that's supposed to enhance delta state sleeping;
I'm keeping a pain journal;
I've canceled my dates for the next three nights;

I'm trying to calm down enough to sleep, but I'm wired from so much activity at home tonight -- helping Penny do homework; playing with Sar; helping pick up a game; helping Tera button and unbutton her jacket; watching the play Penny & Sam made up while the rest of us were finishing dinner; mining the ITunes store for songs with the kids' names in the title (we were especially delighted that there is a group called the Elessar Trio doing Latin music!); trying to get Sar settled.  Home was good tonight...and things still hurt.

Sar is waiting for me now to finish this and cuddle him down to sleep.

One last good note from today:  Mike gave me a ride home.  When he heard how bad I was hurting, he offered to pick me up & he arrived right at 5 with a bunch of roses for me on the front seat.   And he made me laugh during the right home.

So it wasn't a bad day.  Just a painful one.