What Does YOUR Flare Feel Like? {This Girl is on Fire}

{Typo finds are very welcome as I'm pretty medicated today} What does a fibro flare feel like to you? Can you identify its cause(s)? Please comment or message me your answers. Also please let me know if I can share them in my next post. If so, do you prefer your name, a pen name, …

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Locked Out: 24 Hours In My Fibro Life

Husband is out of town for a possible new work project and I've just come out of a five-day fibro flare. He was concerned he would need to cancel his trip but A. Thankfully it ended in time B. I'm resourceful even when in dire pain C. I adamantly refuse to let my health hold …

Q&A: Catherine McCord, Founder of Weelicious & One Potato

I've been majorly fangirling since Catherine McCord agreed to this email interview. She is the founder of the resourceful website Weelicious and the organic meal prep service One Potato; writer and cookbook author; and mom to three sunny kids who her readers have watched grow up via Weelicious. Catherine's exuberance for feeding families has influenced …

“Invisible Illness” Emergency Room Trip

{Find a typo, and I can’t even.} I think I look smokin’ in my new Mardi Gras dress. However, I’ve been in a full body flare for over 48h. Widespread pain with pins and needles. On fire. It’s dire. Strangely none of the 18 fibro points hurt. The pain meds protocol put in place by …

Rehab? No, No, No

  Summer 2011They tried to make me go to rehab/I said, no, no, no/Yes, I been black/But when I come back, you’ll know, know, know.”-Amy Winehouse {As high achieving as Husband is, one of the things he particularly respects about me is that I quit. I quit when I know a job, friendship or, as …

3 Products I Love

  Here are some new and old loves this Valentine's week, which is also the week I met Husband, 18 years ago! {Cue the “awwws.”} Heating pad: Last week my daughter mistakenly broke my heating pad, which I'd had for 10 years. I was relieved to see it's still being made and immediately ordered another. …

Rehab? Yes, Yes, Yes

“They tried to make me go to rehab/I said, no, no, no/Yes, I been black/But when I come back, you'll know, know, know.” -Amy Winehouse Outpatient Functional Restoration Program at my hospital, you had me at sleep hygiene! {I actually QUIT after two days! Wrong program for “young” fibro patients, to say the bleeping least} …

Let’s Talk About CBD

{Find a typo and I'll...go on a diatribe about fibro exhaustion. I'm out of my Frida Botanicals CBD tincture otherwise it would be in the photo as well. Please read my disclaimer before taking any advice from this post.} I experiment with a variety of CBD products as a way to (try to) take fewer …

Who Dat! Today I’m Like All New Orleanians: Chronically Crazy

It's Carnival/Mardi Gras season in Nola, where beads throw on trees; king cakes are in everyone’s shopping carts, seen being transported on airplanes, and gobbled by mouths of all sizes; floatloads of beads are coming soon; and my daughters' school gets out early on parade days as it and our house are in "the box," …

Multifaceted Advice From a Brilliant Rheumatologist

I’ve been collecting info re: are ketamine infusions safe to continue on a regular basis? I reached out to a long distance, extremely experienced rheumatologist friend. He gave me permission to post his compassionate response. I hope his advice helps you as it did me. I went forward with two ideas I’d been muddling over: …