It crossed my mind recently that, while I take an interest in, and am concerned by, posts of my friends' difficulties, I seldom post my own ( Read more... )

Two days ago, responding to Valerie's desire to have a clean house for Christmas, I spent eight hours (out of the three-per-day my fibromyalgia lets me function for without getting sick) cleaning everything off the carpet, including moving considerable furniture, and then vacuuming every exposed inch for the carpet cleaner, who as it turned out had ( Read more... )

As President I shall order the Attorney-General to leave no stone unturned in gathering proof that the "doctors" who talk about Pain Management are in fact moles for the Christian Scientists.

When I am President I will form a Special Flounder Squad to deal with doctors who practice by rote but have poor memories.

I finished my story rewrite for the Shipstar anthology and sent it off to Larry Niven and Gregory Benford, who approved it at once ( Read more... )

I have fibromyalgia.

I have the worst case I've heard of. Probably because people with worse cases commit suicide long before I can hear of them.

I don't have a hell of a lot of spoons.

But after 55 years I have managed to file quite a number of them into sporks.

Seconds before I posted here, I had come up with a disturbingly funny remark.

It has flown the coop. God, I'm pissed off.

Fibromyalgia is a horrible curse. Anybody can get a brain fart, but I have Irritable Brain Syndrome.

Sixty-five boxes of books on the wall,
Sixty-five boxes of books,
If one of those boxes should happen to fall,
I stacked those boxes myself, and you can jolly well pick it up your damnself, because you knocked it down.

Though humor comes from pain, it's possible to have so much hit at once that the mind cannot focus.

Evidently.

This is likely to be my last What? for a while.

On the bright side, I've collected the first 365 into a single manuscript, and will publish it on Kindle as A YEAR OF WHAT? as soon as I get the cover done.

I had to defriend someone today ( Read more... )