Random Update
About Fibro (skip to next para if not interested)
I haven´t really been complaining much about fibro symptoms recently because they haven´t been too bad actually and I´m so grateful for that - any occasional moderate pain over the last month or so was quickly nipped in the bud with a simple Ibuprofen.
Today, however, I feel not so much in pain, but *fatigue* in all my muscles, even my hands as I am typing feel so weak and shaky and it´s taking me twice as long to type, and my coordination otherwise too is as bad as it gets - I have given up counting how many times I have stumbled, bumped into things, taken corners with me and banged my head/shoulder/thigh/[insert other body part here - NO! Not like THAT, LOL!]. I just feel like flopping on the floor any second. I drank a Red Bull earlier and I am making a coffee now and hope that the caffeine will prop me up a little bit. Gah!!! I was feeling SO GOOD for a GOOD WHILE!!!! This makes me feel so down. The last month or so I have felt almost normal (for me!) health-wise, but sadly, it never lasts with this evil disease. So I just gotta enjoy the times when the fibro is not flaring, and hope that *this* flare only lasts today and no longer...
About DIY-ing
Probably a good reason for this flare is that yesterday I bought a 240x122 cm sheet of MDF at a Carpinteria which they cut into strips for me (so they´d fit into my car) so I could make some fitted shelves out of them. They basically cut them to almost the size I needed them, but I still needed to jigsaw them into the right shape at home - they are for a corner where one side is 36cm and the other 50cm, so I want the shelves to be less deep on one side. I hate using the jigsaw on my balcony cause the sawdust goes *everywhere*, MDF being much worse than pure wood, but that´s what I did with each shelf (there are 4), followed by sanding them, painting them purple (only the top side) and ironing a black border (with glue that activates when hot) onto the front of each one. They look great! I´m gonna post some before and after photos when I´m done cause I haven´t actually put them up yet. But yeah... any fibromite would probably have the same physical reaction after doing stuff like this....
By 18.00 hours I just fell asleep on the sofa and didn´t wake up till about 19.30 again. When Simon called I had to say that I am soooo not coming out anymore, I was just dead...
Bingo tomorrow!
I am at work at the shop today, so I don´t know what´s gonna happen afterwards and how stupidly tired I will be, but tomorrow I will be going to Bingo with some of Simon´s friends - I have never played Bingo in my life and I guess now, that I am a middle-aged hag, it´s a good time to start, hehe. Should be fun, cause they´ll be a fun bunch to be with. Fingers crossed I feel better again tomorrow too. :)
Anyways, that´s it for today. Move along now, folks. ;)
I haven´t really been complaining much about fibro symptoms recently because they haven´t been too bad actually and I´m so grateful for that - any occasional moderate pain over the last month or so was quickly nipped in the bud with a simple Ibuprofen.
Today, however, I feel not so much in pain, but *fatigue* in all my muscles, even my hands as I am typing feel so weak and shaky and it´s taking me twice as long to type, and my coordination otherwise too is as bad as it gets - I have given up counting how many times I have stumbled, bumped into things, taken corners with me and banged my head/shoulder/thigh/[insert other body part here - NO! Not like THAT, LOL!]. I just feel like flopping on the floor any second. I drank a Red Bull earlier and I am making a coffee now and hope that the caffeine will prop me up a little bit. Gah!!! I was feeling SO GOOD for a GOOD WHILE!!!! This makes me feel so down. The last month or so I have felt almost normal (for me!) health-wise, but sadly, it never lasts with this evil disease. So I just gotta enjoy the times when the fibro is not flaring, and hope that *this* flare only lasts today and no longer...
About DIY-ing
Probably a good reason for this flare is that yesterday I bought a 240x122 cm sheet of MDF at a Carpinteria which they cut into strips for me (so they´d fit into my car) so I could make some fitted shelves out of them. They basically cut them to almost the size I needed them, but I still needed to jigsaw them into the right shape at home - they are for a corner where one side is 36cm and the other 50cm, so I want the shelves to be less deep on one side. I hate using the jigsaw on my balcony cause the sawdust goes *everywhere*, MDF being much worse than pure wood, but that´s what I did with each shelf (there are 4), followed by sanding them, painting them purple (only the top side) and ironing a black border (with glue that activates when hot) onto the front of each one. They look great! I´m gonna post some before and after photos when I´m done cause I haven´t actually put them up yet. But yeah... any fibromite would probably have the same physical reaction after doing stuff like this....
By 18.00 hours I just fell asleep on the sofa and didn´t wake up till about 19.30 again. When Simon called I had to say that I am soooo not coming out anymore, I was just dead...
Bingo tomorrow!
I am at work at the shop today, so I don´t know what´s gonna happen afterwards and how stupidly tired I will be, but tomorrow I will be going to Bingo with some of Simon´s friends - I have never played Bingo in my life and I guess now, that I am a middle-aged hag, it´s a good time to start, hehe. Should be fun, cause they´ll be a fun bunch to be with. Fingers crossed I feel better again tomorrow too. :)
Anyways, that´s it for today. Move along now, folks. ;)