i dont usually discuss health issues...and frankly it can generally be pretty depressing reading people complain about feeling sick!! but hey! i am there right now - not trying to be absent..but really feeling sick (and especially over a long period), it just gets downright wearisome! when i was eighteen years young - over half my lifetime ago - i began to feel sick. it started with sore throats, chest pains, headaches, aches and pains all over. my doctor was baffled, he tested me, poked and prodded me, watched me go from a vibrant newly graduated girl to someone tired and sick, sleeping or in bed up to 20 hours a day.
long story short, i was further tested and finally diagnosed by an internal specialist at the highly respected polyclinic in seattle - 4 years later! at that time, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome were new diagnoses and actually quite debatable in the medical field. for me, i just knew i was sick. it was originally thought that it might possibly run its course - and that maybe 2 years, 4 years, or even 6 i would be back to my old self. and quite honestly - that is what kept me going those early years. i thought i would see light at the end of the tunnel!!
hmmmm - its now been 25 years. and sometimes i feel better, lately not so. so, at times i am absent from here - not because i want to be - but just because i am.i must say too that the support, care and understanding i get from my husband and sisters is really u nbelievable.
so enough whining...today our jayme is taking a sailing class in p.e and beth is starting piano lessons!! we are off tomorrow to celebrate birthdays with my sisters and families! a weekend planned with eating good things, taking silly pictures, laughing, gift giving, loving! (and we might even argue - just because we can and sometimes enjoy!!) is your family like that??
so for now - blessings and happy weekend!
I hafta say, sis, you are the most vibrant sick person I know. If it weren't for the chronic fatigue, you would be unstoppable....you even have me beat now!
Love you.
Jilzilla
Posted by: jilzilla | September 28, 2010 at 07:49 AM