exhaustion

  • Nil Desperandum!

    When I had the unsatisfying appointment with the rheumatologist a couple of weeks ago, he mentioned referring me to the physiotherapist to have a cortisol injection in my hip. On Monday afternoon I got a call from Crosshouse Hospital to offer me an appointment the next morning. The physiotherapist, let’s call her Lucille, was very…

  • The Invisible Illness

    Fibromyalgia is a fickle illness. It is not steady with a small set of constant symptoms. Instead, we fibronauts have what we like to refer to as flares: days, weeks or months when every symptom you’ve ever had (and possibly a few new ones) happen all at once and at a severity that takes your…

  • You Look A Little Tired…

    No shit sherlock. I look a little tired? But otherwise, I’m fine, right? Look, I normally don’t like to moan too much about my illness. It’s boring for me, it’s boring for you, but sometimes, if I don’t share how I feel, I’ll explode in a ball of stressed, angry, raging pain. This fibro flare…