[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “TOP: WHAT DO I WANT FOR THE HOLIDAYS? BOTTOM: ICE PACKS”]

It feels like I sprained my ribcage today (curse you, costochondritis!) and I left my only ice pack at a friend’s house. MISERY.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “”What do you do?” Uhhh…”]

Anyone else sick of introducing themselves as what they used to do?

You know at parties and stuff. “I’m Bob, I golf and go to University for Cat Studies and blahblahblah.. So, what do you do?“”Well, I’m Fluffy and I used to go to University for Dramatic Arts, I used to dance and act and ride horses and sing and enjoy hiking and adventure and the great outdoors… and then I took a Fibromyalgia to the knee.”

That’s just what I’m going to say from now own. “I used to do stuff, but then I took a Fibromyalgia to the knee.”

God bless the cat who submitted that earlier post, it was hilarious!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Take same medication as your grandfather”]

My grandfather is 87 and I’m 18… This should not be happening.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Take a shower. There go half of my spoons for the day”]

My fibro shows up in the tendons of all of my joints and showering hurts every single one of them. If I don’t shower in the morning, I won’t be awake enough to function in school, but of course, everything hurts so bad from the shower that I end up sleeping in my first block anyway just to lessen the pain a little.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Winter. My mortal enemy”]

I don’t know about anyone else, but winter is going to kill me.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “Can’t decide”. Bottom text reads: “which body part to use heating pad”.]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: Top: “Hot shower for aching muscles and joints.” Bottom: “Get nauseous and faint from the heat”]

This was me last night. Thank god it was bedtime… I was gonna lie down anyways!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: Top: Too tired to stay awake. Too much pain to sleep. Bottom: CRY.]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “on the toilet - dammit I need a break, I’ll finish this later”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Make a random comment at work about being in pain. Coworker offers you ibuprofen” “Yeah, I don’t think that’s going to cut it”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “New medication for blocking pain. Side Effect: Weirder dreams than Alice in Wonderland”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: TOP: Have bottle of cymalta in hand.  Bottom: Unable to remember if you took it yet.]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: top:”You’re a healthy young woman.” bottom: ARE YOU F*NG KIDDING ME?!]

I’ve had lupus and fibro since I was a child, over twenty years and only got it diagnosed five years ago after my daughter was born.  Every doctor, every family member, every friend who I didn’t see very often had this to say to me.  Yeah. I wish I was a ‘healthy young woman.’  Lupus and fibro suck.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Lose short term memory because of Cymbalta, can’t remember that you lost short term memory.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Cymbalta gives you short term memory loss, “I forgot to take my meds” “You can’t take your meds” “……. I forgot to take my meds.” ”]