I pace myself, doing one thing a day. I also wear non skid sock type slippers on my feet. Seems to help me a lot!
I hear what you're saying April. My message was not about my family. It is about every family who is not as perfect as yours, and no, it's not always the mother's fault. That's quite a load to put onto a sick mother. to blame her for any child's or teen's or husband's personality or choices. Just count yourself EXTREMELY blessed and rare to have what you have. Even if your message is reaching people who only have fibro, there are so many different levels of illness in FIbro. It affects each off us differently from week to week or year to year. So again, please don't get angry at families or women who are not like you. Some are VERY sick with fibro and don't even have the strength to be assertive and enforce all the rules, and there are very perfect mothers like you, but whose families are not as respectful and obedient as yours. So try to ease up on people and not to demand that every home be the model of your home I just pray you don't get so sick that your plans fall apart, or that your family decides not to be perfect 24/7/365. I say that because I remember when I was your age, I was OCD clean. I would scrub my floor late into the night, and clean and clean until I ended up in the hospital (when my kids were very small), and I remember saying "I couldn't bear a dirty bedroom. I would crawl to get my room clean if I had to." So in a way, I was you. But it seems that every time I judged someone and demanded that they "SHOULD" do things the way I did them, God gave me whatever burden they were suffering, so I would learn about limitations and judgments. Best wishes, young one.No hard feelings intended. Just trying to soften your harsh comments a bit.
Hi Cassee
I hope you have received some advice you can use and I look forward to seeing more discussions from you.