Spaghetti Squash, Cupcakes, Ultram

31Mar07

To balance out the seriousness of the previous post, I’d like to share with you two food-related excitments in my life recently.

It is often really difficult to prepare easy, quick, appetizing, and nutritious food when my energy level is exceptionally low or my pain level is high (or other myriad FM and dysautonomia [...]

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Dwarf sunflowers, seitan, bad days

24Mar07

I just wrote a post, complete with illustrations, and through a series of absurdly frustrating events it has been lost.

However! Instead of throwing myself to the floor and forsaking my computer, I am going to re-create the post for you. Let’s hope that the parts I forget needed to be edited anyway. [...]

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Back pain, showers, and the unexpected benefits of fibromyalgia

26Feb07

So, I wasn’t going to post because my days have been colored almost entirely with intense back pain, and who wants to hear me whine about that, right?! But then I remembered the entire point of this blog is to document my experience with FM, etc, so here I am.
I’ve felt quite [...]

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Gluttony vs. Pain

08Jan07

I have come to the realization that I definitely use food as a way of dealing with pain, exhaustion, and other FM (fibromyalgia) symptoms. I think I’ve always done this to some extent with depression, but I’ve definitely noticed that in the last few months as my pain has increased and I’ve experienced new, [...]

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