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I don’t know about you, but when Thanksgiving is over my thoughts immediately turn to the Christmas Season!! The day after Thanksgiving I love turning my house from Pumpkins and Autumn Leaves to Nutcrackers and Reindeer!! Having Fibromyalgia means the transformation takes me a bit longer to achieve then it once did…but I still love to decorate for the holidays-pain or not! (no pain, now that would be a gift!!)<\/h3>\n
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Christmas at my house last year…hoping for a duplication of its beauty this year!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Christmas decorations now take me up to three days to make happen. (Which is not like I used to be at all!!) Once upon a time I used to spend my Thanksgiving evening taking down autumn and putting up (and even decorating) the tree that night. Before we moved three years ago, I even had one tree in five different rooms all decorated in themes! But this was before I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia<\/a>. It is hard, sometimes, not to think back to those days…I was a go-getter! Sun-up to way after dark I was a very busy, busy bee! I was like the Energizer Bunny!<\/h6>\n

But, alas, those days are over! Now it takes me days to accomplish what I once did…or I don’t even attempt it! I have really had to alter my life and my persona. The latter is the most difficult! I think I fight with my former self more than I’d care to admit. Then, on the days when I am just too terribly hurting to even care, I feel guilty for not “pushing” myself.\u00a0 I try to tell myself that a day of rest is helping me…but I was never one to rest before the Fibro! Now, resting has become a part of my (daily…if I can) routine…on most days! (However, I still suffer from my old “push-push” mentality which causes me to crash big-time. It’s a vicious cycle.)<\/p>\n

The migraines I suffer from now can knock me out for hours-and that is with many Ibuprofen. On those days I can’t even think clearly, and if I don’t catch it before it really kicks in, I find I don’t even care what’s going on, I just hit the pillow and block the lights! It is an awful thing to suffer from migraines and to my thinking, Fibro-migraines are the worst! But none are fun to live through.<\/p>\n

So here I am, the weekend after Thanksgiving with visions of Sugar-plums dancing through my head…and my house is (almost) completely decorated (did I hear applause)…and I awoke with what appears to be the beginnings of a migraine…complete with intensely painful joints with pain that radiates and runs deep into my bones. UGH!<\/p>\n

I think my Thanksgiving week has caught up with me. Perhaps I did not rest enough? Perhaps I over did the menu…again? Perhaps I still suffer from being haunted by my old self and I keep trying to fool myself into thinking I am not really sick. Perhaps my Will to do things makes me suffer more. I guess that is not a bad trait, but I do hate to hurt as badly as I do right now. And since I’ve been writing this, I am beginning to feel like this migraine is about to run away with me…I must go find the Ibuprofen…before it’s to late-<\/p>\n

So, Happy Christmas decorating! May your home bring you pleasure this holiday season without too much pain!<\/p>\n

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**Follow me this holiday season as I write about my real day-to-day goings-on. After all, this is a blog about the “Realities of Living with Fibromyalgia Every Day” and I will do my best to stay current on the happenings at my house!<\/h4>\n

God Bless!<\/h4>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but when Thanksgiving is over my thoughts immediately turn to the Christmas Season!! The day after Thanksgiving I love turning my house from Pumpkins and Autumn Leaves to Nutcrackers and Reindeer!! Having Fibromyalgia means the transformation takes me a bit longer to achieve then it once did…but I still love… Continue reading The Christmas Season with Fibromyalgia<\/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":[26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-with-fibromyalgia","category-fibromyalgia-pain","without-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t