Maria – thanks for a wonderful post. I LOVED your example of “Lucy and Ethel in the Candy Factory” to your own over stimulus responses! At this point, the same suggestion of just “too much” flying by stimulates me to respond, first, “Duh! What just happened,” or “Where am I again?” (From there I just collapse into a puddle of fibro pain). I’m not quite at the laughing stage though so by your experience I take hope that there will be a laughing moment.in my future. I am just beginning my work in fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue. I’ve found that pain does two things. It either motivates me to look for answers or it invades me so thoroughly that my eyes cross and I run to hug my hot water bottle to get relief from pain sensation. What a dance couple heat and pain make! It really is quite the blissful process for a masichist (sp) and a sadist which I have obviously become. The mingling of heat and pain seem to cancel out the other making the relationship a happy and dependent one. My hot water bottles, (hwb) (British Standard with cozies) Fuzzy, Dotty, and Spike, take turns accompanying me around town. I do not carry them in brown bags, yet…They are faithful, and as long as they stay hot, are my dearest friends and allies! Without them, I might be “Lucy and Ethel in a Candy Factory, but more likely “McEvil and McNasty buried in a red ant hill.” I am a beginner now in this world of life-style change and am finally given an opportunity to find my path into health! It’s a life-long truck, I know, so will need to stay close by your side as you guide the way!! This is how healing works.
Thank you!!
But, I am dearly dependent which will have to change after I begin my work to endure and manage fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Keep writing! I’ve just got on the bus. “Hello, my name is Katherine and I’m a hot water bottle addict.” Does this mean after I’m better that I can still use a hot water bottle just for old time’s sake?
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