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Jennifer, I sooo understand all that you wrote. I just posted here for the first time...

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I understand. I was able to enjoy the holidays but it was difficult to be all that I...

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Hello. I have had symptoms of Fibro for a year now and was "diagnosed" in May. I used...

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Hello. I have had symptoms of Fibro for a year now and was "diagnosed" in May. I used this in quotes because we know that diagnosing is a process of eliminating all else.

I am a writer/author and although I find it easy to write about other things it is very difficult for me to put into words how I feel with this chronic illness. Perhaps not because I can't find the words but more because I am frustrated and angry and at times in denial even. Is this really my life now? Tired, depressed, sore, sad, limited, sick...it goes on and on. I am learning to do the best I can moment by moment. It is amazing though how I have changed mentally and emotionally. I am a very spiritually sound person and have great faith. I believe that this can be a sanctifying illness if I can only see it as such. And then again I am only human, which means I cry and want to curl up in a ball some days too.

I have four children and a husband and thanks be to God I have been a stay at home mom for most of my marriage. I am truly trying to see the gift in this illness. Why me? and then again, why not me? Several times I have thought that tomorrow will be different. It will be a better day. All of this will just end and I will wake up from a bad dream. I will be able to go running again and lose these 40 pounds that so quickly have become my unwanted baggage. I will shed this body which has become my prison. I have wasted moments...days... living for the future while watching the present slip away. All the while, my kids are getting bigger and older. My husband is excelling at his career and continues to climb the ladder of success. And I sit in my own world of sorrow and scream silently within.

My New Year's resolution is to take back my life which I feel has been robbed. I won't simply lose weight but will gain life. I will be a part of the moment rather than watching it slip away. I will silently accept the pain and offer it up to God in return for the peace, comfort and strength for someone else who needs it.

May God bless you and care for all of us.View Thread

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