Sickness, Aliens, Romance Novels

09May07

My life has been quite odd lately. I feel a bit as though I’ve slipped into an alternate dimension where all elements are decidedly different — light, sound, time, speech, matter. Everything has been too bright or too shadowy, time has been thick and slow or breathtakingly quick. Sometimes I don’t recognize [...]

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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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Dysautonomia, or Don’t Scratch the Electrodes!

09Feb07

Despite many days of intended productivity, daydreams of blogging, and scribbled notes for future use, this post is long overdue. Unfortunately, for me, one of the facets of FM is that the absence of energy, combined with pain, makes it very difficult for my desires to match up with my reality. I find [...]

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list(ish) of excitement

08Jan07

Things I am excited about recently:
1) discovering that I can make rings out of wrapped wire and various beads
*I love the way the wire looks, all bent and curled and yet graceful
*this makes me want to learn how to work with metal
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