I recently realized that having fibromyalgia has made The Helpful Hubby and I better communicators. The years of practice we’ve had working around the difficulties of communicating with fibromyalgia have helped us to understand each others needs, even when we can’t use words. This became apparent to me lately because now that we have a [...]

I’m sad to say that the post I planned on publishing today was derailed. I had planned to write all about the local Arthritis Foundation seminar that I went to last week. Thanks to fibro fog, when I was leaving the event I picked my trash up off the chair next to me, but left [...]

Recently the National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association (NFMCPA) released their inaugural issue of their magazine, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain LIFE. I was so excited to check it out since I used to enjoy and rely on Fibromyalgia Aware, the magazine that the National Fibromyalgia Association used to publish. I think it is important for [...]

Those of us living with chronic illnesses often have to go to the doctor more than the average Joe/Jane. Obviously, if we’re going to spend so much time with our doctors, we want that time to be as valuable as possible. Six years into my fibromyalgia diagnosis I created a medical notebook and I can’t [...]