One day at a time.

Sorry it has been a while but the pain got to be really bad and the medication they had me one made me really mean and not anything like myself. I was totally losing it but after talking to my Dr. and him to the insurance company, the insurance company decided to approve my medication for the next year.

Thank God. I am already starting to have less pain and I am starting to feel like myself a little bit. I have been having headaches and I have felt a bit nauseous with the later not happening before. I usually only feel that way when I am pregnant but I just had my menstrual cycle so it can't be that. My husband said it is probably my body just getting use to the medication again.

Other then that I have been able to move a bit more but no where near where I would like to be, I am still not able to keep up with the house yet which is where I would like to be.

Oh by the way I did get around to making that cake and it came out wonderful, even made home made frosting.

It was so good that this is the cake I will be making for my mother in law for her Birthday/Mother's Day gift. 

Even know things didn't go as well as I would have hoped they would things did progress and like always "anything can be achieved in time".

March 18th, 2014

So here I am. Just to let you know that cake still hasn't happened. Yesterday I dealt with body wide pain, I was sleepy, and went to bed early. I did however do part of our grocery shopping with my daughter Dennise in tow. She loaded and unloaded everything for me as the pain was pretty bad, but not bad enough to ride in a cart which I do from time to time when we are out and the pain is too much.

Today I slept in, oh that reminds me I have to take my medicine. Hold on. Got a phone call from Samantha my oldest daughter while I was taking it. Will post about that in my other blog One Mother's account of Daily Life later. So where was I oh the pain for today. So far it is in the right side of my neck, my elbows, shoulder blades and thighs. A good day for me to catch up on chores but a day we have to go to the Dr. for my husband to get his measles shot.

He got them when he was little but when he started college no one could find a copy of his shot records so they had to do a blood test and he failed in the measles department so if he wants to stay in college he had to get the shots again to bring him up to 100% immunity.

I am sure while we are out we will meet up with Samantha and the girls for a bit and because it is Tuesday we will probably eat at one of our favorite restaurants. They serve Prime Rib with soup, salad, veggie, potato, bread basket, and dessert all for 12.95 although I think they might have raised it a dollar but it will count as our date night.

So that is it for today but remember "\anything can be achieved in time".

Welcome to Living with Fibromyalgia in Marksville

My name is Pamela as many of you may know from my other blogs, and I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. I had already planned to do this blog but my husband told me yesterday I need to keep a pain journal, so I promised him I would start it on Sunday which happens to be today, so one thing checked off of my lists to do.

I will get into more about the start of my pain and diagnosis and treatment in the future but while I was thinking of it I wanted to get this up, because if I don't do it while I am thinking of it, you never know when I will get to it again.

Pain for today is mostly near my wrists, lower legs, knees, left side of neck, upper arms and elbows. Not such a bad day for me so I have made it to my daughters basketball games, washed the dishes, folded most of the clothes and pretty much delegated everything else I could think of to the rest of the family. I do plan on making a new to me recipe to try out for dessert tomorrow night later on when the kids are in bed while I have the energy but lets see first if I make it that far.

Usually I am in bed before the kids. Luckily they are pretty good getting themselves ready for bed and up in the morning for school. I am blessed in that area. Every now and then someone will forget to put their clothes aside for the next day or maybe even misplace a book bag, paper, or other item needed for school, and I come to their rescue to help them retrace their steps to find what they need. On a good morning when I am doing well, I am able to do something special with one of the smaller kids hair, which makes them feel special.

I hope that this will help my Dr's out in providing the right kind of care for me in the future. This is also a place where others can learn about Fibromyalgia as I do and know they are not alone in the pain they are feeling. I hope today has been good for everyone and here is to the mystery of what tomorrow will hold for each of us.

My motto is "anything can  be achieved in time" Start with a second and work your way up to minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.