Fibromyalgia Support Group

Hi all! Since most everyone seems to be offline and hopefully sleeping the sleep of the young, I feel like an adventurer going here and there or a P.I., like Sherlock Holmes! LOL, I just pictured myself in his hat! But if I were good ole Sherlock, I'd have Watson to do my bidding! HE could get the cat litter and I could stay in bed! OK, that went WAY off my intended subject.

I still wince when I say this BUT I'm 60(ouch again! When will that pain stop? Plus, there are no pills for that!) Everyone I've joyously met here, so far, are younger than I (I think, can't be sure). I know that we have the youngens and then alot of us in their 40's and 50's, but has anyone actually reached this freaky age? Just wondering! And if there are others, I'd love to meet you & find out how you reacted? In my experience, those people who just turned 60 feel OK about it if they're happy in their lives, have loving, supportive families and have THEIR HEALTH! Haven't yet run across my situation, although I'm sure they are out there?

For anyone who is in early 60's, come on down and say hay! BUT, I must warn you that I don't garden or knit or play with my grandbabies. I never married (not for lack of trying & was engaged twice)so I'm living alone with my 2 siamese boys (I know, I'm a cliche)and dealing with fibro-plus alone, except for the absolutely wonderful, witty, talented, smart, sensitive, knowledgeable, diligent, caring, helpful, funny, patient, supportive,(darn, I ran out!) fellow fibro-suffering friends I've met here! I'm pretty much bed-ridden, "body all achin and wracked in pain".

So, I'd love to meet anyone really who still feels like 26 or 30 at the oldest in your minds no matter what age you may be. While sitting on the toilet (blush) the other day, it suddenly hit me how wonderful this site is; to have met so many people who know EXACTLY how I feel and struggle with the same issues as I and have this MONSTER of a disease which most of the world denies and can be here for each other; well, I'm not a believer and I don't believe in miracles (think science can or will explain everything, in time)please,NO OFFENSE MEANT ,but this has been a miracle for me! So, for whomever reads this (& at this time of night or morning, that may be nobody) I want to tell you all that you're all miracles in my life and I hope you all know how much you are appreciated and how much I wish for you pain-free day after pain-free day!

Just started this to find out if I'm the matriarch here, but now it doesn't matter!! HUGS Bonnie

Post edited by: nolife, at: 04/25/2009 05:53 AM

I feel like the official time keeper here this morning. I've been here all night, just typing away, waiting for it to be time to take my rare regular dose of meds. But it's still too early (6:20 AM) and I'm now having a screaming flare (not exactly the words I would have used in person!)I MUST, simply MUST get to the market this morning for NEEDED supplies and if I take the meds now, they'll be wearing off just as I get to the store, I wish I knew what time they open. Well, this is just too much pain to be in without relief, so I'm going to take them anyway. I'll try to run through the market (yeah, right!) No, I'll just have to take more while I'm there because if I don't take them now, I will really scream out loud and the neighbors will think I'm being murdered! I might not mind that right now, as long as it's quick and they feed the boys on their way out!LOL OK, I'm going after my pills, can't take another second! Bonnie Oh, sorry Hugs to everybody!

Post edited by: nolife, at: 04/25/2009 03:31 AM

Morning, nolife ~~~

I m up and about, catching up here and getting ready to go to work in a little while .

I don t know the ages of many here but most are younger than I am (including you) ~~~ I will turn 63 on Tuesday and just mentioned sometime yesterday that ""some days I feel 26 and others it really IS 62"" ~~~ LOL !!!

I am married and try to do things with hubby when I feel like it . Sometimes housework gets left behind so that I can do these things so my house is far from perfect.

I do still work and enjoy getting out and about with people but I do have days when I come home and crash, doing nothing more than absolutely necessary.

I have a 7-year old grandson (living an hour away) but if he calls with a school function or something he needs me for, I try to be there ""johnny on the spot"" (even if I know I will pay for it dearly the following day).

I HAVE learned to pace myself with activities and definitely say ""no"" a lot more than I ever have in the past when I just plain know whatever the activity is too much for me anymore.

If things need done, they get done when I can do them now ....

Sorry for the ramble ~~~ just wanted to reply to your post !!!

I hope you get out and about a bit in this beautiful weekend sunshine . Fresh air and sunshine always make one feel better !!!

I know i am a youngin lol I am gonna be 40 this June (cries) and most days I feel (in my head) 18 lol and my body at the moment fells like 92 But I still get up work 40 hours aweek.. have two boys ages 17 and 14 a wonderful husband, and 5 talking parrots and 7 finches lol and a partridge in a pear treeeeee LOL Kidding about the partridge

I have been up since 7 am (very sore) but cleaned both bathroom fed the birds cleaned the kitchen swept the floors just finished eating breakfast and gonna head out to get a few things at the store so i can plat a few plants this am then take a shower and my mother is coming up for the might to go to maplefestival here in Saint Albans VT and we will walk around there lol (we will see how far i walk with everyone at that point lol.. and tomorrow we hit the festival again for things we missed...

So by the time monday comes around and I am back at work I should be crying lol and then have 2 days off before i hit work for the rest of the weekend and those two days off I plan to go visit a friend who just had a kidney transplant and wednesday i have a friend coming here to work on her flowers arrangements for her wedding in June (I am the unoffical wedding planner for her ) LOL so I Dont I guess I am just friggin nuts LOL

But I will pay dearly for doing all this but OH well I am not gonna give up my life for this... I will relax in between but damn it I am gonna win .. gonna take a lot more to kill me ROFL

Oh Auntie, first of all, good morning!! Do you know that I think you were my first 'friend' here; don't know why I put that within apostrophes! Maybe in the beginning it may have been appropriate but now I feel as though my friends here are really friends and isn't that amazing? I typed my fingers off all night and I'm afraid that I may get kicked out of here for too much writing & it was mostly (not entirely) but definitely mostly me replying to me because most people were offline, hopefully sleeping.

I applaud you for being so active and productive. I can't seem to pull myself out of this bed and get into the shower then to the market. I've met so many heroines here and you are definitely one of them! BTW, you NEVER need to apologize for rambling; least of all to me!!If you looked up "rambling" in the dictionary, you'd find my picture!

BTW, how did you react to turning 60? Probably much more graciously than I did! In fact, I'd put money on it. Your attitude is great and positive and I admire you for it!! So I'll leave you with 63 hugs (that includes one for good luck) and may I be the first to pre-wish you a Happy Birthday on Tuesday!!! Bonnie

For Bonnie Bell

I'm 58. I'll be 59 in October. BABY BOOMERS RULE!!!!!

My sister will turn 60 this year. She freaked out when she hit 25 I wonder what she'll do now that she's hitting 60. I look back now and think about what my parents were doing when they were my age. I always thought they were so old at this age LOL.

Jan, I think about what my parents were doing when there were my age too, but you know they had a child in college (me) and about to get married. I cannot imagine me going through that right now. My oldest is 14 and I am about to blow a gasket. How did they handle it?

My mom always told me this about the milestone birthdays: If you're happy in your life, turning a certain age was a breeze. So, when she turned 30, twas hard b/c she was unhappy with my dad, 40 and unhappy with my dad, 50, very easy b/c had left dad and was newly in love with Leo BUT, she said, no matter how you cut it, no matter how happy or not, turning 60 SUCKS!!! Boy, was she right!! At 70, she was already ill, so glad just to be alive but she died while still 70.

At the opposite spectrum, my grandfather, with whom I was very close, died almost exactly one year ago, 25 days short of turning 107!!!His birthday is April 30th and had he lived, he'd be turning 108. As old as he was, I still believe he died too soon. He was truly a remarkable man!

Happy week-end all and so many hugs that you'll have to rent a storage unit!! Bonnie

Hi Auntie. I am 68 but if I sit in my recliner all day, I feel like I am still 25, lol. I think of all the things I want to do but the minute my feet hit the floor, I realize I can't stand up without pain, so there go all of those wonderful thoughts. I haven't even made my bed yet and it's almost 1:00. I can think back to how active I used to be and how obssessive I was about cleaning my house a certain way. I miss those days and all that energy that I had until I had my mastectomy in 2006. That's when everything went away on me. Turning 70 is what really scares me, though. And that's next year. <shudder>