Eastern medicine for me has always been shrouded in mysticism, and I approached it with equal parts curiosity and trepidation like an unfamiliar animal you're not quite sure how to interact with. In all my attempts to better understand eastern medicine I only ever felt more confused. It was like communicating using only vowels, in barely intelligible grunts.
Strange Behavior
One of the oddest things I've experienced during this decade long struggle with fibromyalgia is strange anxieties. At first I hardly noticed them or if I did notice them they just confused me, I'm not generally an anxious or fearful person and admittedly it took me a while to realize that the feeling was even anxiety.
Meeting Minutes: 4.5.2016 Part Two
Meeting Minutes: 4.5.2016
Upcoming Meeting Reminder: 4.5.2016
Hey everyone just a quick reminder that our monthly group meeting at the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center is happening this Tuesday from 1-3PM.
Because I have had so many requests on this topic I will be covering disability. Hopefully a very informative session so don't miss it!
Don't forget about our Monday Qi-Gong classes and our Fibro Fridays either. We are doing tongue maps for this friday!
Hope to see you all there!
Emo-shun
Blocked
Walk right up to the door, but don't open it.
Don't Be Such A Girl!
My Inner Geek
Left-Overs
Lyrica and Nuerontin, and Gabapentin, oh my!
Meeting Minutes: 3.1.2016
Upcoming Meeting Reminder: 3.1.2016
Hey everyone it's that time again! It doesn't feel like it's been a month to me.
See you all on Tuesday March 1st from 1-3PM at the North Domingo Baca Mulitigenerational Center for our monthly support group meeting.
Thank you to everyone who has shown up for our weekly QiGong sessions, we've had great attendance and the class is wonderful. I hope you will continue to come and for those of you who haven't had the chance don't forget - Free Fibromyalgia specific QiGong sessions every Monday at 1PM held at Khoo Wellness.
OH! don't forget we will be doing our first Fibro Night Out on Friday! Come join us at Khoo Wellness from 6-8 PM for Game Night!!!
Have a great weekend and see you all on Tuesday!
Silly Optimism
I'm not sure what it is about 2 am. Some part of me thinks I should be annoyed because I'm not sleeping but there is something so peaceful about 2 am. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world at 2 am, silly. I love the quiet of 2 am, I love padding through the house with all the lights off and reaching out to touch the corners of walls and furniture. I love the way the world looks at 2 am. I could forgive anything at 2 am. I don't want anything from anyone and no one wants anything from me.
That Smells Too Loud!
You've Changed.
I think a lot about all the things that took place between the moment I got sick and now. There is this question I always get stuck on, what would you tell someone newly diagnosed with Fibromyalgia? A part of me wants to give them encouragement and point them in a healthy direction but a bigger part of me screams warnings.
Meeting Minutes: 2.2.2016
Big thanks to Nic Baker and Andy Miles for coming out to talk with us about their practice and the way they are trying to improve the fibromyalgia community. For those of you who couldn't make it; Nic and Andy are with the Khoo Center here in Albuquerque, their main focus is the proper diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia.
How can you tell who has Fibro in a Zombie Apocalypse?
They're zombies.
Maybe this joke should have been: In a zombie apocalypse how can you tell the difference between the zombies and the Fibro's? You don't have to:
Fibro's are the first one's getting bit by the zombies so. Fibro=zombie
Do you think a Fibro zombie would be slower or would it be faster since it can't feel pain?
Zombie life is starting to have some appeal.
Whoa!
You know what I don't get? Why when I'm thinking to myself -ok don't spill this cup full of coffee, and my body responds by hurling the coffee across the room. Yeah subtle brain, real subtle.
You know what else I love... When you respond fast enough to theoretically catch the cup you just tossed only to bitch slap it instead of actually catching it, which results in coffee not just on the floor but the ceiling too.
Wtf.