Selling Snake Oil? No Thanks.

{Find a typo and I’ll gift you a snake charmer.} I "auditioned" a cognitive behavioral psychologist last week and finished my appointment feeling hopeful and happy. I so wanted to believe in him, and in the thing he said that I knew deep down couldn't be true: That he once helped a patient "cure fibro.” This week I …

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Yes, Mom, They Do Hang Low

"Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie 'em in a knot? Can you tie 'em in a bow? Can you throw 'em o'er your shoulder Like a continental soldier? Do your ears hang low?" My Mom frequently sang this silly old song, often substituting "boobs" for ears. It's …

“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 …

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} …

The Barest, The Realest & The Hardest: The Kids

Hi Team Jennifer’s Docs: I hope it’s okay to reach out this evening. {Well that was hours ago and none of you responded, f*ckity f*ck f*ck f*ck!}. I "overdid it" one day (so this is the punishment I get for enjoying my family?!), then had a terrible fibro flare over the weekend and per your …

Pain Pill Cocktail du Jour

This time the pics are the story. Read them. Since I’m missing a New Year’s Eve Party, I got “dressed up” for my doctor appt. I’m really into scrunchies now, am wearing a light coat of Rose Beautycounter lip gloss, and left the zombie eyes bare. Goodnight 2018. I toast my "Levy Protocol" + a …

“What You Fear in the Night”

  "What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway/And we all get burned..."~Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman) by Counting CrowsI fell asleep before 9p after a terribly painful, long Sunday. Right side of the neck pain, specifically. Like someone pressing on a bruise or sore muscle, with no …