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Each Day Already is a Challenge
A Texas Sunrise
 
A friend, William Taylor, took this picture. He visits Surfside Beach with his dogs almost every morning, watching the sun rise while the dogs prance about at the water's edge.
This is only about ten miles from where I lived in Lake Jackson, Texas. Sadly, I only visited this beach about four times in the six years I lived nearby.
Each day is a challenge. A challenge to get by without thinking about the fibromyalgia pains. A challenge to stay awake when chronic fatigure wants to take over. And a challenge to navigate through fibro fog.
I haven't been writing as much as in the past. For years, I wrote at least 500 words a day. Now, I'm lucky if I write 500 words in month. Sigh.
For more information about what my day (or life) is all about with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pains, IBS, depression and everything else thrown in, check this out:
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I found another entry from a while back that I had marked as "keep private." Wish I would quit doing that.
Anyway, here's what you missed. 
I'm not a doctor. Just a woman suffering from fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and all that goes along with those...
Stomach ailments happen to fibro patients. And IBS. But my pains and digestive problems really bug me sometimes. I've had every test you can have - 2 and 3 times! But the medications meant to reduce stomach acid don't seem to help the pains (and burping and passing gas). Then I read somewhere that people over 50 often don't make enough acid. I tried taking some wine vinegar every day and that seemed to help. So who knows...
If you spend time on the internet researching what "helps" fibromyalgia, you'll find that there probably are not two patients taking the same exact meds. That's probably because every patient also has different pains and symptoms.  It makes it hard to figure out - for patients and doctors.
My gastro doc finally did admit that my pains might just be spasms, since everything else spasms and suggested a different muscle relaxer than I take for skeletal muscles. Sigh.
There are plenty of fibro patients who swear by taking guaifenesin. And there are plenty of doctors and researchers who seem to want to stop them from both taking gauifenesin and from talking about it. They claim there's a placebo effect. Perhaps. But supposedly, the man who started all of this, R. Paul St. Amand M.D., had it himself, and was, therefore, motivated to find something that would relieve or cure the symptoms.
Here are just some links about guaifenesin:
http://web.mit.edu/london/www/guai.html
http://www.fibromyalgiatreatment.com/GuaiProtocol.htm
http://www.fmnetnews.com/resources-alert-product6.php
http://drlowe.com/QandA/askdrlowe/guaifenesin.htm
http://fibromyalgia.ncf.ca/dsguai.htm
L-glutamine is something that body builders take. But if you poke around on the internet, you'll find that it's been given to cancer patients for pain. I've been taking it, and, you know, it seems to help.
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Here's that bad and silly poem I wrote and sent to poetry.com just because doing so was a requirement for entering a constest. Remember? The Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest I mentioned a few weeks ago? http://www.winningwriters.com/contests/wergle/we_guidelines.php
Here's how the poem looks at poetry.com. Y'all should really vote for it, 'cause it's sooooo good. vhttp://www.poetry.com/voteforme/poemvote1.asp?PID=11956341
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Here's a link to outpost-earth.com where my blog is listed. 
http://outpost-earth.com/users/Kenzie
This is where you can find my ezinearticles.
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Marilyn_Mackenzie
And here's http://www.bloggernity.com a blog search directory. Here's my blog listing there. You can even vote for it. http://www.bloggernity.com/blogs/41777.html
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...I think.
I have to about it, otherwise I might . It drives me nuts that I have to take naps. Sometimes I can go for days without needing to do that. Then Tiff will be here for the weekend and I'll have to nap while she's here. That really makes me mad. At least this past weekend, I was able to nap while she and hubby were out having daddy time.
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My son came looking for me and asked if he woke me. He didn't. He was finally using the bongo drums his dad sent for his birthday. I don't think he had used them much before today.
For Christmas 2005, I gave Derek a Djembe (an African drum), and he has used that. Now he has both the Djembe and the bongos. I'm glad he's using them today. Sometimes it helps him relieve stress.
In case you don't know what they look like, here's a Djembe: 
Nope. He didn't wake me. I was already awake when he started drumming. But I really don't think it would have mattered that he was drumming and I was sleeping. It seems, once I am asleep, that nothing much wakes me up.
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You know what bugs me? I'm signed up with a few different (real!) mystery shopping companies. But I have not gone out of my way to do any mystery shopping since I've been in Cincinnati. You know why? Many of the companies have not raised their payments in years. Grrr.
I did my first mystery shopping before there were mystery shopping companies, I think. Back then, I worked for a private investigator. I had to pretend to need an apartment and report on the leasing office. That was in Houston, way back in about...1979 or 1980. I was paid $25 for about an hour of my time, and back then that was excellent.
The company that I'm signed up with to spy on (okay they wouldn't like that phrase) apartment leasing offices now pays $40. That's okay.
But the pay for some other kinds of shops stinks. Like...there's one company that pays $5 to shop a restaurant. Granted you don't have to buy much to be able to report. But still. They're not reimbursing for the meal or snack. And it could take 3 or 4 weeks to get the $5. With gas prices, I'm not sure about that one.
Today I got an email about doing shops for a hotel. This could be worth something. They reimburse for the cost of the hotel (plus meals if you're required to report on them) plus $20. They expect you to do these shops in your own area, so there's not a big travel expense. (Or you can schedule a shop somewhere else while you're traveling. That could be interesting - getting your hotel reimbursed plus getting paid.)
Anyway, in case you're interested in trying this, here's the link: http://shopper.application.freemangroupsolutions.com/
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Speaking of not increasing pay...
That has become a hot topic about some of the writing magazines and e-zines. They have not increased pay at some of them. Funny, isn't it? They will criticize other magazines and e-zines for taking advantage of writers and not paying enough. Then they will pay very little for articles about how little the other magazines pay.
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Okay. I'm not sure that last paragraph made much sense. I wonder if I'm getting sick or something. I'm shutting down, as I tell hubby. That means that I need to be in bed in the next ten minutes or so. Wonder why I'm so sleepy today??????
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Hi all. Did I take that nap yesterday from 3 to 4:20ish pm? I sure did. I woke up about three minutes before hubby called. I also took a nap after hubby got home from work. From about 6:30 to 7:30. Of course after two naps and the resting I did before that, I didn't go to bed until 1 am. Got up to get Derek from work and here I am now. But you know...I'm probably going back to bed for a while. I'm not going to set an alarm...just let my body decide how much sleep it wants. The dirty house and sink full of dishes will wait some more. And such is my life. Today, the pains all over my body are competing with the fatigue. They're all winning, as far as I can figure.
I know, I know. I haven't posted my sermon notes yet. I'll do that when I wake up. Then I'll do those dishes.
So...nitey-nite again. |
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