We have at least a dozen nurses in the group, an Internal Medicine Physician's Assistant, and a celebrated Australian Rheumatologist/pain specialist. He set up a drop box to access some of his published papers, along with some of his colleagues, and should you be interested in accessing them at any time, just send me your home e-mail address, and I'll send you the access link. Here is the best on Fibro.
Some of the things in the dropbox are not on the painaustralia link.
BTW, I'm sure that was a wild story to hear about an alien visit! Right out of the X-Files! I loved that show! Hey, that new Star Trek movie looks like a good one, I just watched the previous one again!
TODAY SATURDAY HEADED TO THE PHARMACY FOR A REFILL ALREADY TOOK THE DOG FOR HER MORNING WALK THEN REST AND WATCH 2 RENTED MOVIES LATER I WORK SUNDAY DOGWALK CHOIR REHEARSAL THEN WORSHIP SERVICE FELLOWSHIP HOUR HOME REST WORK AT 3:30PM 4PM ON SATURDAY HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND HOPE ITS A GOOD ONE AND PAINFREE QS POSSABLE
SK - love Muir Woods too! Took my daughter out to San Fran in 2008 and took a day trip up there. The serenity in there took our breath away! Redwoods are on my bucket list.
My sister and her boyfriend are coming to put up my swing on my balcony. I love that swing I love lying on it and rocking back and forth I find it so comforting! I am also going to pot some flowers. I love flowers and gardens and since I no longer have a house with many gardens, I do the next best thing. Container planting! I always found that to be therapeutic. My mom is also coming over and we'll take my two poochies on a nature walk tomorrow! So that's it...my way of distractions from the pain. Can't stop living! Wishing everyone a great weekend...of course pain free!!!!
A select group of I.T. professionals were invited to a pre-Screening of Star Trek Into the Darkness. I was lucky enough to be invited to watch. It was fantastic! I am going again today with my family to see it again. :)
Ugh.. I just woke up after a good 10 hours of sleep. This is good for me, but does push off my sleep schedule by a few hours. I still hope to wake up early for Mass tomorrow. I really want to go. The Wife went shopping early this morning while she was hungry and it shows. She even picked me up a French Doughnut and a Apple Fritter. So now I am in a Sugar High while she goes to the gas station to pick up a can of gas for the lawn mower.
Looking through this thread of posts, there are a lot of people I am looking forward to making replies with. Please know that I have not skipped you or passed you by.
For me, upon awakening, the fibro-fog is thick and heavy. My body shakes as if I have just been through a very traumatic experience full of pain and anxiety. When I am feeling normal emotionally this effect can be pressed through for what it is.. nothing, and within an hour or so I am back to feeling what can be assumed as my normal self. God help me when I awake with these feeling when I am depressed. The downward spiral becomes a swift death plunge the likes of which perhaps only Icarus may understand. Fear, paranoia, anxiety become all you have, all you are and feeling as though all you will ever be. Today I am thankful that I can easily press through, concentrate upon my daily goals and soon all that is left is my still slightly trembling body and a clear mind full of hope and expectation for a brand new day.
It is my hope and prayer that all of you have found this brand new day, and each and every one has been uplifted to enjoy the gifts of friends and family throughout.
-Bill Sr.
What a wonderful gift to him! Hope you have fun, Sandi!
The drive from Monterey to Carmel is pretty fantastic too, you can loose about 20 pounds just wishing! ha!
We did that too, but by bus. Good thing it was a nice coach bus, as it was unusually warm that April out there. My favorite was laying on the 18th green at Pebble Beach. Didn’t care at all what others thought - it was awesome! It was a beautiful drive and everything was so expensive!
Wow! I can’t do do church anymore. My bladder disease and pain stopped that-mostly bladder. Was your Vicodin incident like my oxycodone incident? I became addicted because the dr kept giving them to me without trying to find out what was wrong. I was also on 100 fentynol.
When another dr discovered I had a broken tailbone and that was the reason I couldn’t sit down. When I found out, I quit cold turkey against med advice. Some pain clinic drs go too far and some not far enough.
Feel better my friend.
Well what I had planned didn't work out. I ended up sleeping for four hours this afternoon. I guess I needed to catch up from the week of work. I wanted to do some housework and clean my home office. Didn't happen, I did get the laundry done and put away and cleanned the kitchen. I have to usually clean one room a day. Other wise It would stay a disaster around here. Sometimes if I get in a flare then its days before I can do anything at home. I work two part time jobs and it pretty much takes all my energy. My husband cooks and thats a big help. Church is on the agenda for tomorrow, I teach Sunday School. I love to go to church. Have a blessed weekend. Sue
Well, I didn't need the cheer leaders outfit. Turned into a major melt down day. We all gotta have them once in awhile and I will be the first to admit it. It doesn't happen often enough apparently. There was an awful lot in there that needed out!
Nothing got done, nothing moved, nothing cleaned - except my tear ducts. Glad I have a good supportive guy.
But it is a cute outfit.
LKitty
Hi Tricky!
I went through what you're describing a couple of years ago. I used to pop vicodin like candy to get me through a hugely busy part of life. Then I went through withdrawls. Since, I have used vicodin very sparingly and only for "special events" where I really need to be there and on the ball.
This was a 3 day (so far) reaction to 1/2 of a vicodin. It involved arrythmia and terrible pain, a major melt down and the biggest flare I've had in a very long time. Much better now, but not there yet.
Thanks friend,
LKitty
Wow.. it is midnight already and I have not completed much of what I wanted to do. I have not finished all my replies nor welcomed the new people and then there are those who are having a tragic weekend that need comforting. I am just so very grateful there are so many of us to be there for each other around the clock. Nothing worse than reaching out in the last moments of desperation to find only emptiness and the dark. Tomorrow is yet another day and my goal to make it to church is still set in stone. I promise to get caught up in the forums afterwards.
Until then join me upon the waves of an old sailing ship, long away at sea waiting for the dawn of the new day to guide us...
The night mellowed with age
pours forth the panorama of the sky.
The last whispers having stilled,
now only the patterned waves
sound off the gliding hull.
The bow cutting its ever sure path
speaks to these sentinels of light,
friendly wanders of travel
who move but never as to stray
from their well charted ways.
Trailing, liberated into the night,
a flame of white charges
from beneath the stern to be lost
in the most distant dark.
The last watch stands
to await the morn.
But darkness's seamless drape
is dipped in a heavy hue
that alludes to no weakening.
So there is at first only a hint
which can be but felt.
Then follows a glimpse;
the shallowest band of light
affirms the ending of the night.
Until ascends the knowledge that
quiet's shading is now past.
-Bill Sr.
I wish I had plans for any weekend LOL! Usually, I clean up the house (which causes more pain), then sit outside to get some fresh air. Love it when it is sunny outside! The sun makes me feel better. My boyfriend works Saturday and gets home around six. We sit and talk (when we can ... have three kiddos). Watch my fav TV shows when I am on the couch. Sometimes I will watch a romantic movie with him. On Sunday, we laze around, which it seems I do daily anyway, but I know he is tired from working all week. Love watching one of our cats playfully and viciously attack a cat toy. It's hilarious! Watch my kids play also. Wish I could do more with them.
A pool sounds wonderful. I have been seriously thinking about adding a small above ground pool in our backyard. The wife said that the kids are getting a little too old for a kiddie pool. I said Kids Hell! I want it for me! :)
I married a Latina, so we mostly eat Hispanic food which she makes ever so delicious. No wonder I started gaining weight after we got married. Her cooking is to die for. And her Texas BBQ is famous around our friend group.
The weekend here in California has been the best. Not to hot, not too cool. A great time to lay around on the patio and enjoy our back yard.
-Bill Sr.
Did you make it to Church?
I set my alarm clock accidentally to 15 minutes before Mass started, but woke up 50 minutes before and noted the time. I was able to get showered and dressed before my friend arrived so I could take him to the Church.
Last night was a good night, but I was not able to fall asleep until 2:AM. I watched Star Trek Into Darkness for the second time, this with my family and I think I was still a bit wound up.
-Bill Sr.
Was your weekend full of the proper amount of nothingness satisfactory to your wishes?
Again, thank you for the warm welcome. I very much enjoy watching all the shows I hated that my Dad watches when I was a child. Anything on History, Theoretical pre-history, the Origin of Man, Genetics, Theoretical physics, Ancient Civilizations, SETI (Which I have been a part of for almost 20 years now), Quantum Mechanics and String Theory and Ancient Religions. Regardless of my views and belief, and I quite ready to give up an entire weekend to listen to the views of others and or the Scientific process behind them. For who am I, being just a man, to denounce the views or belief of another when even I can not prove my own chosen belief system. You will find me very open minded, and I will always believe anyone who says they truly believe in something. I may not believe in what they believe, but I will believe that that truly believe.
Lately I have been reading a lot on the Sumerian culture, the Annunaki, South American lost Civilations, lay lines and Nibiru. Behind any great story, there will always be those people who fabricate or embellish information in order to raise their self importance. Making people believe they alone hold some secret knowledge. There are also those who have uncovered secret knowledge which others would chose to discredit or repress until they themselves can use or keep this knowledge for themselves. It is the listening to all of the information, and trying to extract the truth from the fiction which is the most fun for me. Even the greatest fiction is always based upon some truths which may be validated as a basis of making one believe that the rest must be true as well.
Who built what, when, where and why is always an exciting journey when the engineering behind it is greater than our most modern machines may handle.
At the very least, it is a wonderful distraction from the world of pain and suffering we live through daily.
-Bill Sr.