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