Hey there world! Even if you think you know me you really don't. I live in the same world as you but much of my life is off the grid that you inhabit. You see, while you can do whatever it is you choose to do I can't always do that but when you look at me you probably don't know that. You see, I have some health issues that you just can't see. The one that some people realize I have is asthma. Chronic bronchitis adds to that so there are lots of times when I just can't walk anywhere because I get out of breath so easily. I've learned to sort of work around that. Inhalers are great tools to make me get around the whole lung issue. You might notice that I eat differently than most of you too. That's because I also have celiac disease. It's ugly but thankfully we caught it and I went gluten free. As long as no surprise gluten appears in my food I'm pretty safe. I rarely eat something that someone else has made so I do a lot of cooking and have become quite creative. Lucky for me I'm pretty good at it too. The one that you probably don't know anything about is fibromyalgia. That one stops me dead in my tracks more days than I care to remember. You can't see my condition so you may think I'm just making it up but, no, it's very real and very much way beyond anything I ever thought I could deal with.
I named my blog, Can't Catch Me, because you can't catch any of what I deal with every day. You should consider yourself lucky. You don't want what I have. Trust me.
So, here I sit with some challenging conditions. I bet some of you are thinking that I'm sitting at home in my pjs drinking hot chocolate curled up in my favorite chair. Well, no, I'm not and I don't get to do that except on the weekend or at vacation time. Yup, you've got it, I work full-time. I'm a teacher so I'm at work very early in the morning and while I can sometimes get out by 4 much of the year I'm at work till at least 5 (and that's after getting there before 7 in the morning). I'm not complaining about my job. I love what I do, the kids with whom I work and my colleagues. I'm beyond lucky that way. You see, that's not all I do with my time. I also have a family, a husband, two teenagers and two crazy dogs. I come home and cook a full dinner every night, do laundry (though my husband thankfully helps with this because I can't carry the laundry back upstairs) and keep my house reasonably clean (except the kids' rooms and bathroom-not my territory, don't touch it). You could say that I'm a busy person. By 8 o'clock I'm ready to drop and I usually do. I'm achy, tired and usually don't have use of at least a limb or two by then. My back is calling me unsavory names and my eyes don't even want to work anymore. How do I do all of this considering my health? I don't have a clue. I just live by the adage, if I don't do it no one else will.
Right now, it's Friday afternoon, the work week is almost over and I'm in so much pain that I just want to curl up in a ball and cry. Do I do that? No! OK, I don't want you to get the idea that I'm some sort of superwoman because I am not. I'm just simply Fibromama.
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