I realize it has been a while. Things have been pretty painful, and just getting worse ( Read more... )

I've been thinking of how to start this post over the past hour, and I realized that every time I went over it in my head, it started out as an apology. It was an apology for being absent, an apology for how whiny I think my pain posts are, for how I've neglected my journal. And while it sucks that I've not been on and I've surely missed out on a ( Read more... )

I'm not breaking my promise to be more open and honest. Here is what has happened since I last posted ( Read more... )

I want to reply to my comments, and I really do plan on it, and I apologize for not being more active in your lives, LJ. I'm still working on health stuff, and I promise to still keep you updated ( Read more... )

One thing about chronic pain is that it’s hard to see. Many times, people don’t exhibit it on the outside. If you look close enough, you may see it etched in the lines of their face, or see it in the way they walk, hold themselves, move around. It’s there but it’s not something that shows a physical scar.

I can still sit here and click a mouse and ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, I had my first appointment with the Rheumatologist. She is the same doctor who both my sisters saw, and she knew who I was before even looking at my papers. She wrote down everything I said, she was very attentive, asked a lot questions and really seemed to care about how I was doing. My blood was taken, to test for the RA factor ( ( Read more... )

Let me start off by saying something: I am not an expert on this. There is so much I don't know and don't understand about diseases (especially endometriosis), even the ones I've researched over time and the ones I've been talked about to by countless health care professionals. Diseases and diagnoses change every day, but I'm sharing, with you, my ( Read more... )