Archive for the ‘Fibromyalgia’ Category

Empowered by a microphone

I gave myself a gift today: a head­set with my very own micro­phone for the pod­cast. It isn’t as fancy as the one that I was using, which is my partner’s Very Nice (read: intim­i­dat­ing) micro­phone. That one, though, sits on the desk­top on its own stand. I know this sounds piti­ful, but I have […]

September 3, 2006   Posted in: Fibromyalgia, Podcast  No Comments

Get well soon … or, be eternally damned!

Great car­toon from Ragged Edge. I want to get that notepad printed up! The mag­a­zine also has an excel­lent blog and some very good arti­cles. I just fin­ished read­ing their spot­light on invis­i­ble dis­abil­i­ties, which linked to the car­toon. There’s plenty of excel­lent read­ing mate­r­ial on their site.

August 31, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Resources  2 Comments

Consideration for ourselves, changes in podcast format

It seems that many of us who suf­fer from fibromyal­gia and chronic fatigue are per­fec­tion­ists. I know that I am. One of fibromyalgia’s harder lessons has been pac­ing myself and adjust­ing to chang­ing (but always lower than before) energy lev­els and con­cen­tra­tion. I know I’m not the only one who isn’t as con­sid­er­ate of myself as […]

August 29, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Podcast  No Comments

Flowers Fighting Fibromyalgia!

Orig­i­nally uploaded by ChatOmbre. This is a one flower of the lovely bou­quet in my liv­ing room right now. Sam knows how much I value fresh flow­ers, so he usu­ally brings them to me every week or two. Katie knows that I adore them, so she pho­tographs them, allow­ing me to enjoy them even longer. […]

August 5, 2006   Posted in: Beauty, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain, Relaxation  2 Comments

The glory of pain management

I’ve been almost afraid to talk about it, but last week my pain man­age­ment doc­tor pre­scribed break­through pain med­ica­tion for the first time. I’ve been leery of tak­ing it too often, so I’m tak­ing it once every few days instead of once a day as directed. Mir­a­cle of mir­a­cles, though: all the pain except for […]

July 19, 2006   Posted in: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pain  8 Comments