Add a previously scheduled photo shoot this afternoon for our family’s 5th Bluegrass music CD cover (taken by your friendly neighborhood photographer…moi’) on rather a blustery winter day, and you have the makings of Fibro-body-disaster!<\/p>\n
The pictures came out great, by the way! The models (six kiddos from age 9-22) all worked together! (yippee!! and not much stress…)<\/p>\n
However, when I came inside, my body locked up immediately and I literally could not move from the kitchen chair I had sat down on. I felt like I was covered in plaster-of-paris or buried in wet sand from the neck down for over 15 minutes. Was it from the past day’s activities, holding the camera up for an hour and a half, or the chilly temps? Maybe it was the fact that my son had to help me up from a squatting position almost every time while photographing instruments? Perhaps all of the above?<\/p>\n
Regardless of the whys, there I sat.<\/p>\n
I eventually began to slowly move my neck and hands. My daughter helped move my legs and after another minute or so, I sat rubbing my hips and knees all the while hoping my hands would hold out from my rubbing.<\/p>\n
It was the worst I’ve ever been as it was my entire body all at once. Normally it is this and that pain today and some other pain tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Every Fibro sufferer knows that they never know when or where the pain will strike.<\/p>\n
It’s true.<\/p>\n
Pains come and go with nary a warning. Such is the life of a Fibromyalgia sufferer.<\/p>\n
The good news is I’m back to feeling my normal Fibro-self. That flare lasted about an hour, but it was a doozy!<\/p>\n
Definition of “Normal Fibro-self”= relatively high pain throughout various areas in the body, difficulty sitting and standing and extremely hard to climb stairs, burning pain the joints and must-have Crocs for the tootsies. You know, NORMAL<\/em>.<\/p>\n I am still stiff and sore and my hips burn something fierce! But I am thankful we got the pictures done! Now I can focus on something else. Like a new week. Tomorrow is Monday and a great way to begin anew!<\/p>\n Mondays offer a chance for a new start. A chance for the slate to be wiped clean and to make new goals for the week. Perhaps this week I will achieve some of my goals! So, make a list, check it twice, and do something on it. When you see that list grow smaller it will make you feel like you’ve done something! And you have! Good luck!<\/p>\n Happy Monday and gentle hugs!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a tough one. After all the cooking that was done by me the past few days, what with Valentine’s Day and a son’s birthday (which yielded 14 people) this Fibro body was struggling. Add a previously scheduled photo shoot this afternoon for our family’s 5th Bluegrass music CD cover (taken by your friendly… Continue reading Cold Weather and 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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