tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38050469211411230612024-03-05T17:48:52.916-08:00Im Not My PainThis blog is to be used as a means of support for those suffering from any Chronic Illness. If you would like to post your story please contact me and I will gladly post it for you.Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-63457598312697269362015-08-05T18:34:00.001-07:002015-08-05T18:34:33.762-07:00Almost Done Prolotherapy<div style="text-align: center;">
I haven't posted lately because it has been a tough number of months tiring to recover from Prolotherapy treatments. I only have one more treatment left out of 12. I am really looking forward to not going through these painful treatments.</div>
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Has Prolotherapy cured me? Unfortunately not, but it has strengthened my joints and I am able to exercise a little bit. More than I have in a long time. It is a slow road to learning how to live in this body of mine. However, I am determined to feel better no matter what so I will continue to go forward on this journey.</div>
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I have learned quite efficiently how to tape my ankles and knees to help with not over stressing the joints. For my ankles I tape them from bone to bone around the ankle, then from the bottom of my foot upwards around my ankle bones. This has added a great deal of support.</div>
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For my knees I tape them pulling my kneecaps towards the inside of my legs. This too adds strength to the joints as well as calms down the pain and inflammation. Every person is different though depending upon the degree of hypermobility, if these particular joints bother you I suggest asking your Physiotherapist if taping your joints in this manner would help you.</div>
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Praying you are very blessed and can put this information to good use.</div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-21417015501665730972015-03-18T14:22:00.002-07:002015-03-18T14:22:50.160-07:00Prolotherapy - Session 5 DONE!<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above photo accurately depicts what it looks like to receive Prolotherapy. The Nurse Practitioner/ or Doctor uses an Ultrasound Machine to ensure they do not hit any arteries or nerves and directly injects in between muscle and joint in your painful areas. I am told that Naturalpaths do not use an ultrasound machine and that scares me as Eric (my nurse) has told me when he can see my arteries and nerves and without the machine how would you miss them? So if you are going to get Prolotherapy, please ensure they use an Ultrasound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Part 1 of my Prolotherapy consists of 6 sessions of injections into four areas of my body. I have four main places he injects on my upper right spine, three on my upper left. Then there are about six places he injects into my hip area. Next he moves on to my left wrist then all five fingers. Finally, my right ankle in three places. (Apparently I win the prize for the most prolotherapy in one session before :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prolotherapy is a slow process and after five sessions (10 weeks time) I am beginning to see changes. I have developed these bumps in my hips that are tender but feel strong and what I am feeling is the extra strength in that area, it is a good response. My Physiotherapist told me she could feel strength in my spine that I did not have before Prolotherapy. Also, the recovery time has changed drastically with this fifth session...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">the swelling in my wrist and fingers went down within a day, where it took a whole week before. Day 2 after session 5 I have already walked up and down the stairs 3 times and walked to and from our mailbox - before I was in bed for almost a solid two weeks until my next appointment (in other words I would just begin to feel better the day before Prolo). My husband told me he notices my strength when Im sitting up in bed, not supported, as well as I am not trying to support my neck by holding it up by balancing my thumb on my top teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Huge praise report to the goodnes of God`s grace and mercy. I am so very thankful that the Lord led me to Prolotherapy. I am feeling that I might just get my life back after so many years of being in pain. Praise God!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Wishing you blessings on your healing journey. May God lead you to your healing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">God bless you with much love</span></div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-21851238318252163172015-02-09T13:42:00.000-08:002015-02-09T13:49:35.445-08:002 Session of Prolotherapy<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well friends I have had my second session of Prolotherapy! Woohoo! That means only 4 more to go on the first section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Prolotherapy works by building up layers around your joints to protect them and this occurs with 6 consecutive sessions (every two weeks) of injections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In between I go to get IMS and an adjustment by a Physiotherapist at the Spinal clinic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So far we have been able to inject at six points on my spine (3 on each side), I think there are four points on my hips, three on my right ankle and I was brave enough for the Practitioner to do three spots on my left wrist!. (Yes this procedure hurts A LOT, but I think it will be worth it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Once we are done these pretty major points we go on to do my left ankle and my right wrist as well as both of my knees. When it comes to ankles and wrists you only want to do one at a time because you will not be able to use them very well after treatment for about three days.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently this does not become a problem with the knees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am exhausted but hopeful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It takes time to build up layers so unfortunately I will not be able to see the benefits until after the 6th session recovery which will be 12 weeks from the first session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will keep you posted and up to date on how my healing progresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">At this point I am trusting in the Lord for my healing. I have some amazing prayer warriors that have fought many battles for my healing and Im holding on for dear life because I know the VICTORY that is coming, and I'm ready!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Since I was the age of 9 I have had what I thought were really bad growing pains. My knees and wrists and fingers and toes would all ache to the point of tears. I have dealt with that aching pain now for well over 30 years and was told that no one could help me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My Doctor basically does not know what to do with me anymore, he has helped me as far as he can in regards to getting my medications to help. He is not familiar with Hyper Mobile Joints. On our last appointment he suggested I go to a Spinal Clinic where they specialize in chronic pain and he said hopefully they would be able to help my Hyper Mobile Joint issue too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So... I go to my first appointment at the Spinal Clinic and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I meet Vicky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Vicky who listens to me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Vicky who understands me, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">and Vicky who reads my body like an open book and knows exactly where my tender points are!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She immediately assessess my body and determines that I should be wearing a 'hip-belt' and (Im not kidding) the second she helped put it on my hips I felt relief! Relief that I haven't felt in a long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She also looked at how misaligned my body was and proceeded to realign me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then she said words that I have never heard coming from someone in the medical profession before...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">"I can help you."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These words were music to my soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In this one appointment I received so much hope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She told me about a medical procedure called PROLOTHERAPY.</span></div>
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Prolotherapy (aka Regenerative Injection Therapy – RIT), also known as ligament reconstructive therapy or sclerotherapy, is a recognized orthopedic procedure that stimulates the body's natural healing processes to strengthen joints weakened by trauma or arthritis. Joints weakened when ligaments and tendons are stretched, torn, or fragmented, become hypermobile and painful. Traditional approaches with anti-inflammatory drugs and surgery often fail to stabilize the joint and relieve pain permanently. Prolotherapy has the unique ability to directly address the cause of instability and repair the weakened sites, resulting in permanent stabilization of the joint. When precisely injected into the site of pain or injury, prolotherapy creates a mild, controlled inflammation which stimulates the body to lay down new tendon or ligament fibers, resulting in a strengthening of the weakened structure. When the joint becomes strong, pain will be relieved.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was scared before hand but I had my Church praying over me that I would have strength to endure the painful procedure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The Nurse injected into 15 key points, but within each point he moved around to inject further into the joints, my husband said there were probably 80 injections in all. I was stoked that I made it through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Right after the first three injections into my spine I had to lay on my back with my feet up to get rid of the nausea that came on from the painful injection, but within a minute the nausea went away and I turned over and right to it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I'm praying this will be a life changer for me and will bring back some quality into my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Many blessings Friends.</span></div>
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Lastnight my Hubbub came home from the Library and brought me this book called "Chronic Resilience" by Danea Horn. The subject is something close to my heart as I am dealing with so much excess stress right now. </div>
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"Sanity-Saving strategies for Women Coping with the Stress of Illness." is the description on the front cover.</div>
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Does that sound like something you could use? Me too!</div>
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So I am working my way through this book to build up my Chronic Resilience to my Chronic Pain.</div>
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So far, I am on Chapter 2 and already it has changed my thinking.</div>
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I have been in a rut, stuck in bed, stuck in pain and not moving very much. I haven't been motivated to even leave the house. This book has put a spark under me and I think it will be very helpful.</div>
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If you can find this book, I highly recommend it.</div>
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Hugs and blessings my dear friends.</div>
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Sincerely and with much love</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">how do you enjoy the great outdoors while you have Chronic Pain?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I used to be able to go camping with a tent when my kids were young,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In the trailer I can make the bed comfortable to sleep on with a memory foam topper, I can use my blankets that keep me warm. I can use the microwave to heat up magic bags or plug in my heating pad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sometimes I wonder about people, what do they think about me? I mean Im a forty something lady living life like an 80 year old lady with aches and pains rumbling over my body. I am very self conscious when I rent a scooter at the mall and receive some pretty strange reactions. "I am too young to need a scooter at the mall." at least that's what I tell myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I want so much to be a normal Mother walking through the mall with her boys taking them shopping... I want to run like the other people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Its hard living this particular life as I am sure it is difficult living your life also if you are dealing with Chronic pain and suffering every day; that is why I try to remain positive. I try to focus on the beautiful things in this life that God has made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have created a 'sunshine shot' journal in which I have taken selfies of myself every time the sun shone and God gave me a beautiful day. This project helped me to get through a very bad year of 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I did it! I had my Hysterechtomy and the surgery went well. There was only one hiccup... My OBGYN found scar tissue from Endometriosis on my left ovary and Fallopian tubes so they needed to be removed. I found that to be rather interesting. I have gone for numerous pelvic ultrasounds all my life for pain in my ovaries. When I was 22 I went to an OBGYN and he determined I had Endometriosis. He told us I probably would not be able to conceive children. Hmmmm...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So alls well then. I went on to have two precious babies and my body cured itself by getting pregnant! Awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still had pains in my abdomen I couldn't explain, I chalked the pains up to "monthly agitations, ovulation pains," that sort of thing. But every now and again the pains would cross that line of bearable to unbearable and off I would go to get an ultrasound yet again showing nothing wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel blessed that it was found before it got so bad I would have lost both my ovaries and was forced into early menopause. However, my OBGYN has calmed my fears by telling me my right ovary is strong and healthy and Endometriosis free. I won't be forced into menopause - thank you Lord!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yesterday a nurse phoned me for all the pre-op questions...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">she told me I should bring my photo ID and my health card,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">then some comfortable pajamas, and oh ya... my WILL!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">SAY WHAT???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Okay Lord, that scared me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was a little consumed with fear I must say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then... His peace came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">His gentle whisper came...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know the Lord will not give me more than I can handle, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will not fear. I will not fear, I will not fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I WILL work on that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have come to the realization in the past couple of months just how much my body is now programmed to fear pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hate just the thought of adding even an ounce more of pain to my body...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">but WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL, GOD IS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I WILL work on remembering this too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will not fear! I will not fear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">God is my comforter, my peace and my salvation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I will not fear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Im praying for all of your lovely spoonies out there who KNOW exactly what I am talking about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">May you find rest when your body just cant take it anymore,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">may you find comfort in your lonely times,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">may you sleep and may your sleep be sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Loving on you fellow spoonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Much love and blessings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br />Kelly Watts</span></div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-58573700561807094072013-10-10T08:24:00.000-07:002013-10-10T08:24:09.288-07:00IUD and MeSo, August 28th I had a procedure to insert an IUD. (see below post for what happened).<br />
September 29 I went into my Gynocologyst and had it removed.<br />
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The problem: I was extremely nauseous the entire month, living on Gingerale and Gravol. I cramped and bled, then REALLY bled the entire month. I felt the IUD pinching me. I was so dizzy and had black outs. At night I would be laying down and suddenly my skin was burning up, burning behind my eyes, waves of nausea would wake me up every night... It was a horrible horrible month.<br />
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The moment she took the IUD out my nausea stopped, the pinching stopped. It was amazing. <br />
I bled pretty heavy for a week afterwards but it was nothing compared to when the IUD was inside.<br />
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I am now booked for a Hysterechtomy in November and I am looking forward to it. I have sufferered with pain since my cycle first began as a teen... Add the pain of Fibromyalgia and Hyper mobile joint pain and I am so READY for my cycle to be done with!<br />
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I am praying that this will be what I need to maybe get some of my life back! <br />
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I know the IUD Mirena was not for me! I have reacted to every type of birth control the Dr's. have put me on. I bleed all the way through the month; Instead of helping my cycle they make it far worse. <br />
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I am so looking forward to that part of my life being over.😄<br />
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Sincerely;<br />
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Kelly Watts<br />
(Spoonie Sister)Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-72235041023856012772013-09-13T18:32:00.001-07:002013-09-13T18:32:30.840-07:00Chronic Illness on Local Anesthetic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't know about all of you... but my body cannot handle the pain involved with local anesthetic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Two examples have come up this year for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">First: I discovered that along with my Fibromyalgia/arthritis comes dry mouth, dry mouth equals lots of cavities. I had six cavities that needed to be filled this year. I had to have local anesthetic in my gums and nearly fainted and became instantly nauseous and dizzy. I chalked this up to a bad FM day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Second: Fast forward six months and I need to go in for day surgery to have an IUD inserted. The Gynecologist suggested sedation and told me I would not remember the procedure. Sedation... ya no... I was fully aware and awake for the barbaric procedure. As soon as they went to put the local into my Uterus my body decides to go into shock shaking uncontrollably and crying and screaming out in pain... hello full sedation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They immediately put me under fully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These two episodes caused me to put two-and-two together to come to the conclusion that my body does not like local anesthetic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have never had this experience before this past year. I was just fine going to the dentist... I was just fine having surgery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now, in both cases, I am getting them to fully sedate me before I get any local anesthetic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hate that my body reacts this way to pain. I hate that it is programmed to react to pain. I hate that I do not know how to reprogram my body to not feel as much pain as I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My girlfriend had to go into the hospital this week due to pain of FM causing her to throw up all her food. She couldn't get the pain under control with her normal medicines. This got me thinking... is my body going to start rejecting the helpful medication that I am currently on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am not looking forward to that day coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am still recovering from having the IUD inserted... still bleeding... still nauseous... still cramping... still in pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I need to breathe, I need to relax... I need to trust in God that He will be with me through all of the storms that come with having a Chronic Illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">God, please bring me your peace that truly surpasses all understanding. I do not know how YOU do what YOU do Lord, but I trust in you. Please heal all my friends with Chronic Illnesses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My heart hurts for the many, many people suffering from Chronic Pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">No matter what it is caused from... pain hurts!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This week is Chronic Illness Awareness Week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hug someone with a Chronic Illness... send them some love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Our illness might be invisible but our needs are not!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hugs and many blessings to all my spoonie sisters!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Love Kelly Watts</span></div>
<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-14242763980299983802013-08-20T11:17:00.002-07:002013-08-20T11:17:22.757-07:00When You Feel Mad at God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever felt mad at God for your suffering?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A sweet friend of mine asked me specifically to write a post in this regard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I thought about it, and to be completely honest, I personally do not remember ever feeling mad at God for my suffering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I think it's because of my experience during my depression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">God taught me what He thought about me as I continually poured myself into His word, drenching myself in His wisdom. (Even when I was not able to physically read the Word but just hold the Word close to me... God was constantly showing me of His deep love for me).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing that God see's me and all of His children as His treasured possession (Exodus 19:5);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He knows me completely(Psalm 139);</span><em><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span></span></em><span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><em></em></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing that we are made in his image (Genesis 1:27);</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He has good plans for me (Jeremiah 29:11);</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that God is love (1 John 4:16)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that God is my provider (Matthew 6:31-33)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He never leaves me nor forsakes me (Joshua 1:5)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that NOTHING can separate me from His love (Romans 8:38-39)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that God so loved His children that He gave up His Son to die for our sins (John 3:16)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He is close to the broken hearted (Psalm 34:18)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He is my comforter (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that God is for us, not against us (Romans 8:31)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that He is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that one day He will wipe away every tear (Revelations 21:3-4)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Knowing that God loves me with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3)</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that my suffering is not because God hates me, He is for me, not against me!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that when I was broken hearted He comforted me!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that when I need Him He is always there for me!</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that He hears my prayers and answers them, they may not be the answers I asked for but how can I question God? He knows what is best for me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="indent-1"><span class="text Ps-139-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that we live in a fallen world that is not our home, how can we expect to live a life free of suffering in a place that is not even ours? Our place is in Heaven with God, where He will wipe away every tear from our eyes.</span></span></span></div>
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I am so sorry it has been so long since my last post, I hadn't even realized it will be a month tomorrow.</div>
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I have been trying really hard to make it through this rainy season without losing my sanity.</div>
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June 25th we had a big rain storm and the rivers rose in Calgary and flooded downtown and many houses along the river banks.</div>
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Our City had a great deal of destruction to deal with damages from the flooding.</div>
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It was awesome to see the people of Calgary come together to volunteer to help clean up;</div>
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of coarse I couldn't be involved in that process as I can barely clean up my own house.</div>
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Rainy season is a horrible season for people with Chronic Illnesses.</div>
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The air is moist and the joints are inflamed!</div>
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I have been extremely inflamed and sore for this entire month.</div>
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I can't even relax when the sun is shining this year because there is so much moisture in the air.</div>
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Today, well today I am very irritable. I think I am in a lot of pain and not realizing it or something because I do not remember being this irritable in a long time.</div>
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I am irritated by sounds lately. My ears are sensitive. I wear ear plugs during the day if there is a particularily annoying sound such as a lawn mower, or a jack hammer (like last week when a neighbor was redoing his driveway). Today... well I think I will live with ear plugs even when there is no specific annoying noise because everything seems to irritate me today.</div>
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Music on my ipod annoys me! That is so strange because I receive so much peace from my music, usually.</div>
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Do any of you have irritableness with noises? I mean an extreme oversensitive kind of irritableness?</div>
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I am going to pray that the Lord calms my soul down... give me a 'chill-pill' Lord and help me to leave my irritibility at the foot of the cross! Thank you and amen!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was chatting with a lady from Europe who just bought a neck brace and who was receiving a lot of pain relief from that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">She told me to try and wrap a scarf around my neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I was skeptical at first, I mean how can a scarf help to relieve the pain I was experiencing in my neck?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This morning I did it, I wrapped a hair scarf around my neck and it is working. My neck feels supported and it is easier to hold my neck up ~ hallelujah!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thank you God for bringing me to this simple little pain relieving trick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now on to better and bigger things so I don't have to worry about my neck for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Who knows, this just might work for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Hugs and many blessings everyone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Met a fellow 'spoonie' on Wednesday. It was so nice to talk with someone who could fully understand the pain... we had lovely conversation and only lost train of thought about four times with each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We laughed because this happens to both of us all the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I went knowing that I would pay for it for the next couple of days,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was just lovely to get out of the house,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I don't know about you, but when I meet another 'spoonie'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">it's like getting together with a long lost friend every time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">There is always an instant connection, a relation to one another that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Living with a Chronic Illness means we have to choose how we spend our time very wisely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My time was well spent with Jill. I felt good. I got out of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">If you are reading this and it is resonating with your soul about getting out of the house, making a choice knowing that you will pay for it later...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I say do it! Live your life and try not to let the 'illness' BE your life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am so very proud of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have been sick most of his life, only his first 1 and 1/2 years were not filled with me being sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">They were some of the best years of my life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I loved being a new Mama watching him grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now he is taller than me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It was a long ceremony but I made it through.</span></div>
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-43241852789090707362013-05-23T17:57:00.001-07:002013-05-23T17:57:20.689-07:00Being Positive With A Chronic Illness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you have a Chronic Illness, your pain is through the roof, you've pretty much been through the ringers with the Doctors, and you are probably pretty depressed fighting for strength every day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>This is a very hard question to answer. Your first thought was probably something like, "Stay positive... pffffft... I am just trying to survive here!"</em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">I fully understand. I fight my negative thoughts every day.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">However, what I have found to benefit me tremendously is changing my perspective...</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">For example; </span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">I have written in journals since I was nine years old but whenever I read through them again I would get further depressed because all of my writing, venting, ranting and raving was negative. Just reading them took me down the emotional rollercoaster re-experiencing all the bumps and hills over again.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">So a few years back I decided to start a 'Positive Journal' and in this journal I would only write about good things. If I experienced something bad or emotional I would try to find something positive about the situation and write about that instead.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">This process allowed me to find the positive in bad situations, it allowed me to change my focus and change my life. I went from being a complainer of everything to an optimistic 'cup is half full' kind of gal.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;">It takes time to change how you think.</span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Being positive allows you to focus on all the good things in your life; it will help you to see through the brain fog and the pain that you are experiencing so that you can accept the goodness that surrounds you.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>It calms your soul so that you will not be consumed with needless worry.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana;"><em>Dealing with pain 24/7 makes it very difficult to think at all but when you are able to think clearer at least then you will be nourishing your soul with good thoughts instead of poisoning it with negative thoughts.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you can think positive, or find something positive to focus on while you are dealing with your Chronic Illness you will find your strength to get through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My hope is in the Lord.</span></div>
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The heat and the sunshine just make my body feel so much better.</div>
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It is sunny and beautiful and I am in the middle of a flare-up!</div>
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If possible we need to take back our lives to live the life we were made to live!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Every month I have to go to the Doctor for a new prescription and I should be used to the fact that those days are pretty much going to be a right off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nope, I do not learn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So after my appointment (which went really well by the way, according to my hubbub)... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You see, I thought I was doing really well. I thought I was dealing with everything really well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">During the Doctor's appointment I broke down because I realized that I hadn't been able to exercise for a couple months. I have been mostly in bed or laying on the couch just fighting each and every day to get through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Pain does that to a person... it kind of traps us in our own bodies and holds us down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I do what I gotta do in regards to finding a life worth living the best way that I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I turn to God for my strength and my support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I turn to the gifts that He has given me to help keep me sane...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">as well as to inspire and bless others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yes, I have to do most of my artwork from bed but that is not the end of the world; it just limits what art I can do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My life is full of blessings and so I focus on those and I know that everything will be okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Praying that all of you are doing well... and if not... that you are doing the best that you possibly can right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sending out healing thoughts to all my lovely spoonie sisters!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sincerely with much love and blessings</span></div>
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(Artwork by Kelly Watts 2013)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A Letter To God</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dear Lord; My Most Holy Almighty God; El Sheddai; Abba;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My heart is so full of compassion... it seems that no matter at what stage of life I am in, You reveal a new and different path to show me more ways to use this compassion inside of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When I was young my heart hurt for things I did not even know what or why, but the pain was very real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hurt for people I did not know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The World Vision commercials were a killer on my heart,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">my first real experience in seeing starving children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">My heart cried out, 'Lord! Lord!' before I knew how to pray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The next stages of my life were stepping stones to learning the plan You had for me. I see now that I had to fall and I had to fall hard and receive many scars that buried deep. I had to start at the bottom and crawl out of the pit I had fallen into; every handful of dirt another lesson... another drop of water into the sprout that was forming in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">At times I would get close to the top only to battle the grounds of fear, anxiety, depression, grief, loneliness and trauma. I was lost in the darkness, I could not see; I could not breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then You pulled me up out of the dirt and breathed in me a new breath of life while shaking the dirt and grime away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You helped me to stand up again on new ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You placed me on a new path allowing me to use the lessons taught and to share the comfort You had given me. You brought me to others who had fallen, who were broken hearted and You said, 'Comfort them'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You gave me knowledge, understanding and wisdom to reach out to the hurting. You taught me and I listened; You led me and I followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Though... You still had more to teach me and so You sent me on another mission; one that would take me to the battlefield of my own body, limiting where I could go and what I could do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Again You said, 'Come' and I went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Again You brought me those physically hurt and broken hearted and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You said, 'Comfort them' and I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You taught me to use the compassion inside even through the physical ailments, through the broken heartedness and You said, 'Go'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now that compassion has sprouted and flourished into a magnificent tree of love and blessings, comfort and healing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I see Your hand of teaching and love over me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I see the compassion You have given me as a precious treasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Thank You Lord, My Abba Father for my gift...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Your compassion growing in me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have a very blessed week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Sincerely</span></div>
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a group of inherited disorders that affect your connective tissues — primarily your skin, joints and blood vessel walls. Connective tissue is a complex mixture of proteins and other substances that provides strength and elasticity to the underlying structures in your body. <br />
People who have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome usually have overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile skin. This can become a problem if you have a wound that requires stitches, because the skin often isn't strong enough to hold them. <br />
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Signs and symptoms of the most common form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome include: <br />
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<li><strong>Overly flexible joints.</strong> Because the connective tissue that holds joints together is looser, your joints can move far past the normal range of motion. Small joints are affected more than large joints. You might also be able to touch the tip of your nose with your tongue.</li>
<li><strong>Stretchy skin.</strong> Weakened connective tissue allows your skin to stretch much more than usual. You may be able to pull a pinch of skin up away from your flesh, but it will snap right back into place when you let go. Your skin might also feel exceptionally soft and velvety.</li>
<li><strong>Fragile skin.</strong> Damaged skin often doesn't heal well. For example, the stitches used to close a wound often will tear out and leave a gaping scar. These scars may look thin and crinkly.</li>
<li><strong>Fatty lumps at pressure points.</strong> These small, harmless growths can occur around the knees or elbows and may show up on X-rays.</li>
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Symptom severity can vary from person to person. Some people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome will have overly flexible joints but few or none of the skin symptoms. <br />
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<strong>Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome</strong>People who have the vascular subtype of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome often share distinctive facial features of a thin nose, thin upper lip, small earlobes and prominent eyes. They also have thin, translucent skin that bruises very easily. In fair-skinned people, the underlying blood vessels are very visible through the skin. <br />
One of the most severe forms of the disorder, vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome can weaken your heart's largest artery (aorta), as well as the arteries to your kidneys and spleen. A rupture of any of these blood vessels can be fatal. The vascular subtype also can weaken the walls of the uterus or large intestines — which may also rupture<br />
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Complications depend on the types of signs and symptoms you have. For example, overly flexible joints can result in joint dislocations and early-onset arthritis. Fragile skin may develop prominent scarring.<br />
People who have vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome are at risk of often fatal ruptures of major blood vessels. Some organs, such as the uterus and intestines, also may rupture. Pregnancy can increase these risks.<br />
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There is no cure for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, but treatment can help you manage your symptoms and prevent further complications. <br />
<strong>Medications</strong>Your doctor may prescribe drugs to help you control: <br />
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<li><strong>Pain.</strong> If over-the-counter pain relievers — such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and naproxen (Aleve) — aren't enough, your doctor may prescribe stronger medications for your joint or muscle pain.</li>
<li><strong>Blood pressure.</strong> Because blood vessels are more fragile in some types of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, your doctor may want to reduce the stress on the vessels by keeping your blood pressure low.</li>
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<strong>Physical therapy</strong>Joints with weak connective tissue are more likely to dislocate. Exercises to strengthen the muscles around a joint can help stabilize the joint. Your physical therapist might also recommend specific braces to help prevent joint dislocations.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is so much to this disease, so much more than just being double-jointed or having hypermobile joints. There are some serious complications that come with this horrible disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I read on one lady's Instagram that she has to wear braces to bed just to keep her wrists from dislocating as she slept. There is a lot of pain involved in these individual's joints and skin; many suffer from what they call 'painsomnia' which means of coarse they are in too much pain to actually be able to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have hypermobility in my joints but it is nothing in comparison to what people with EDS suffer from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you know I have gotten to know some amazing women on instagram that suffer from numerous 'invisible' illnesses...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have come to love their strength and their beauty as women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">With this piece I wanted to create it as a gift for all of them, (you), to make them smile; to make them not feel so alone; to spread a little love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">These women (us) (we) (you) smile through our pain; suffer in silence; and endure a whole lot of pain and garbage with not knowing what is happening to their (our) (your) bodies most of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">With Lupus they get rashes on their faces in the shape of butterflies (which can't feel good)... so I thought.... hmmmm... how do I make something beautiful out of that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">So I drew the butterfly first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">When I was drawing the lady I wanted to give her a great big ol'smile to show how something yucky (like a chronic illness) doesn't have to be sad all the time... but we can concentrate on our blessings... on the people whom God has placed in our lives; the joys that surround us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We may not have energy or physical strength but we can hold onto the moments that make us smile; the people who make us smile and most of all our God who will give us the strength to get through.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">On Instagram I have met one lady who is a beautiful soul... she is battling Lupus and is also homeless. I cannot imagine the strength it takes for her to get by each day... This Butterfly girl is for her...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Another lovely lady on Instagram is living with Fibromyalgia pain 24 hours a day with zero support from her husband and is getting zero help from Doctors... This Butterfly girl is for her...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Another wonderful gal is battling Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease with constant pain and fatigue and fights every single day to get through...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This Butterfly Girl is for all of you out there! I see you! I hear you! I feel your pain! You are not alone and you are not without hope.</span></div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03325252061271957869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805046921141123061.post-7253559212385487212013-04-14T12:34:00.001-07:002013-04-14T12:34:36.763-07:00Beautiful Distraction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Arwork by Artist KellyWatts 2013)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have seen a number of artists drawing their work in old books... so I decided to try...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I LOVE IT!</span></div>
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<img alt="Photo: My second experiment with drawing on old book pages! Now to think of text to go with her. #art #artjournal #artjournaling #doodle #doodling #face #color #vibrant" class="scaledImageFitWidth img" height="403" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/603977_10151339831111109_1541795693_n.jpg" width="403" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A book is easy to work in and I love the texture of the pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I use my art as my beautiful distraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">It helps me through the pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Finding new and easier ways to create my art is so much fun!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">In this piece I used my Copic Markers and a black acrylic marker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">What do you do to distract yourself from the pain?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I hope you are having a pain-free day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am enamored by all the wonderful ladies I am meeting on Instagram. The depth of these women is unlike anything that I have before encountered. There are posts that say things like 'God gives the hardest battles to those who are the strongest'... something like that; after chatting with these ladies I have discovered that they are indeed the strongest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I think about my illness (Fibromyalgia/IBS/Arthritis/Hypermobility of my joints) and I wonder... are illnesses like mine, or like Lupus, Rheumatoid Auto-immune etc., are they more prevailant now than they were say ten years ago? And if that is the case... why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know that mankind has ruined our planet, we've destroyed our good healthy foods and stuffed our bodies with chemicals and we have done that pretty much willingly or should I say blindly trusting our Governments to nourish us, not to lie to us about what goes into our foods etc., and we continue to consume these processed foods knowing what is inside of them - DUH!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Even me now, I began juicing at the beginning of January and I was feeling the great benefits, I lost 15 pounds and I was feeling so much better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then March comes along and I stop juicing as regularily, I start eating bread and meat and everything that I cut out of my diet... I gained back the weight and I am once again feeling crappy. I know the solution...but do I do it??? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The problem is that I lack willpower and most of all the energy needed to continue juicing as I was before. So, I have asked my Hubbub to help me by making me a veggie juice in the morning before he goes to work (like he doesn't have enough on his plate!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">This has helped me a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Next step, due to my juicing and my IBS I have become lacking-in-fiber...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">so, actually listening to my Mother's advice and admitting it, I have been taking the refuse from the juicer of the veggies and making homemade soup. This gives me the fiber I so desperately need in my diet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am not giving up, because I believe I am strong. I know that God has given me strength to fight this good fight and if I have to start over a million times I know that one day I will get it right!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I pray that all of you lovely peeps out there fighting the good fight with your illness will have the strength to do what you need to do to get through each and every day, may God strengthen you when you feel weak.</span></div>
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