My Life - My Fibro

I usually get up about six o’clock and make myself a drink which I take back to my bedroom to drink while watching the news headlines. It’s still dark out and I find it cosier sitting on my bed - comfortable too. I’ve always had the strangest dreams, though they’ve become stranger since my partner died, and I do my best to try and make sense of them.  I rarely manage to! Mornings are slow and achey, but I know how lucky I am to be able to look after myself, especially in present times.  The quote by John Muir is one of my favourites, because it explains how I feel about being outdoors - it’s like going home. It’s the place where I feel most at peace and where I feel I belong. I’m very lucky to have a garden, but looking after it isn’t easy for me and I may have to think of looking for somewhere with a courtyard rather than a large garden, though I think that’s in the distance.  When I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, my doctor knew little about it and told me to look in t...

 Well, here I am, and still wondering what the future holds for all of us. In England, we’ve gone into a second lockdown to try and slow the infection rate. I do take a short walk most days, but people aren’t very considerate and only one or two try to put a space between us. I think I’m very lucky, because I can go for a walk on the cliff top ten minutes away, and move around people if I need to, but I have to get there first and that means walking along busy pavements.  I love to be outdoors though and somehow feeling the fresh air on my face, watching and listening to the waves as they move in and out towards the shore and enjoying the wildlife, somehow gives me hope and I need that at the present time.  Unfortunately, my anxieties have been quite high and that’s affecting my fibromyalgia and, in turn, my IBS. My body seems to ache constantly and I feel so very tired. There are other niggling problems too and I’m sure they’re anxiety based, but if I can get a little fr...