{"id":1193,"date":"2018-10-30T22:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefibrolupusbutterf2647.live-website.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-10-30T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T19:00:50","slug":"quiet-autumn-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"A Quiet Autumn Afternoon in Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>I have Fibromyalgia. That dread condition where you hurt all over, all the time.<\/h3>\n<p>Today I find myself behind my computer with the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack playing and my grandson asleep next to me. Life is pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>Today I have created Christmas cards online, paid bills and enjoyed lunch with my kiddos. My oldest daughter is over and that means my almost eleven month old grandson is here, too!!<\/p>\n<p>It is my afternoon to babysit while all my daughters (there are 5 of them) go outside to prepare our barn for an upcoming wedding to be held here in January.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I said the words=wedding, barn and January-in the same sentence. And yes, I live in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>The word snow is taboo around here until after the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>And a lot of PRAYER is going up to the Lord for a pleasant weather wedding day. Cold is a given&#8230;heaters have been arranged for this blessed event!<\/p>\n<p>Hold all comments, please. The young couple has this vision and it is up to us to see it come to fruition!<\/p>\n<p>Back to my day&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>My pain level is at about a 6-7, which is my everyday normal, with an occasional flare-up to a 9 or 10 sprinkled throughout my day.<\/h3>\n<p>Such is the life of a Fibro sufferer!<\/p>\n<p>As I write this I can feel the burning pain in my back and spine, the electric zaps that pulse throughout my various body parts, and I am dreading getting out of this chair. The pain upon standing can be barely tolerable until the endorphins kick in&#8230;and then it only numbs it.<\/p>\n<h3>But as I sit and look down at this beautiful baby, all the pain sort of fades off a bit&#8230;if only for a moment.<\/h3>\n<p>This little corner of my house that has not been touched by drywall dust (we are remodeling) is my current sanctuary of peace.<\/p>\n<p>May God Shine His Love on you today!<\/p>\n<p>~The Fibro Momma of Ten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Fibromyalgia. That dread condition where you hurt all over, all the time. Today I find myself behind my computer with the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack playing and my grandson asleep next to me. Life is pretty good! Today I have created Christmas cards online, paid bills and enjoyed lunch with my kiddos. My&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Quiet Autumn Afternoon in Pain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fibromyalgia-family-life","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZH8C-jf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1205,"url":"https:\/\/thefibro-lupusbutterfly.com\/?p=1205","url_meta":{"origin":1193,"position":0},"title":"Fibromyalgia and a Creative Thought","author":"fibropage1","date":"January 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I took a few months sabbatical, not because I wanted to, but because my life was not conducive to stopping to write this blog, let alone stopping for anything else! 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