It’s Fibromyalgia Awareness Day today.
Originally published at spitkitten dot com. You can comment here or there.
So, happy Fibromyalgia Awareness Day.
Fibromyalgia is a disease that particularly sucks, although not nearly as much as other diseases that shorten life spans, degenerate, or paralyze their afflicted. Instead, it just makes you hurt a lot in unexplainable and frustrating ways, makes your brain foggy and unable to hold a single thought for too long, your digestive system wonky, enhances migraines, and screws royally with your sleep, among other things. It affects an estimated 2% of the general population, who often have to go to absurd lengths in order to get diagnosed and treated. Then, because it is an invisible illness, also often have to continually explain that they really are ill to friends and family who, rightfully so, say, “You look fine.”
Hug your local, fine-looking 2% today, gently.