No, Fibromyalgia is not my problem, thank God. I've had degenerative disc disease for most of my life and way too many failed surgeries used to treat it, although I am very familiar with Fibromyalgia as well as arthritis and do feel for you. Fortunately we had our son at a relatively early age and he's a full grown man with a family of his own now, as I'd really go nuts if he were still a child living at home. I've not come to ANY conclusions on where to go or what to do about my situation. I'm information gathering and in the pre-decision mode right now. I do know, that from the majority of things that I've learned this far, this is not a journey I wish to take. Nor am I certain the I have what it takes to survive the treatment phase. I'm just so tired of fighting pain and like most am still devastated by the diagnosis itself and am still recovering from a bout of pneumonia and complications that I most certainly almost did NOT survive. I just don't understand why I keep fighting so very hard to survive a world that really does not want me in only to have to do battle over and over again, then just when I believe everything is back to normal something else comes along wanting to kill me off. I mean when/where does it stop? When is enough enough? What's the point of fighting off one near death experience only to have another more devastating experience come along and knock the wind out of your sails? I know for a fact that life is hard, I understand that, I accept that, I've put my big-boy pants on, I got my crash helmet on, I am just so physically and mentally exhausted now, that I just don't believe that I have the tenacity to partake another such feat. Not one in which the "cure" is as painfully deadly as the curse.
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October 2012
The doctors and nurses never said a thing to me either about using Claritin after the Neulasta injections.
No, Fibromyalgia is not my problem, thank God. I've had degenerative disc disease for most of my life and way too many failed surgeries used to treat it, although I am very familiar with Fibromyalgia as well as arthritis and do feel for you. Fortunately we had our son at a relatively early age and he's a full grown man with a family of his own now, as I'd really go nuts if he were still a child living at home. I've not come to ANY conclusions on where to go or what to do about my situation. I'm information gathering and in the pre-decision mode right now. I do know, that from the majority of things that I've learned this far, this is not a journey I wish to take. Nor am I certain the I have what it takes to survive the treatment phase. I'm just so tired of fighting pain and like most am still devastated by the diagnosis itself and am still recovering from a bout of pneumonia and complications that I most certainly almost did NOT survive. I just don't understand why I keep fighting so very hard to survive a world that really does not want me in only to have to do battle over and over again, then just when I believe everything is back to normal something else comes along wanting to kill me off. I mean when/where does it stop? When is enough enough? What's the point of fighting off one near death experience only to have another more devastating experience come along and knock the wind out of your sails? I know for a fact that life is hard, I understand that, I accept that, I've put my big-boy pants on, I got my crash helmet on, I am just so physically and mentally exhausted now, that I just don't believe that I have the tenacity to partake another such feat. Not one in which the "cure" is as painfully deadly as the curse.0October 2012
