For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
— Lev Grossman
Giant strawberries. So large they actually have cores. Unpleasant cores that need to be removed. That seems the only size available anymore. Smaller strawberries taste better, growers and sellers, and cores are just no.
Also, has anyone noticed that the tube in the roll of toilet paper is twice as big as it used to be? And now, all the tp I’ve seen in the stores is narrower, and the roll is about half as thick. I know grocery shrinkage has been around for some time, but come on. I don’t know how to combat this, does anyone. I read sometime ago about an olive canner who realized that if he left one olive out of every jar, his profit would increase dramatically. I think this is where the whole thing started. You pay the same or even more for less, and what recourse is there?
Yay, done ranting.
Came across an article. Here’s what I learned from it. Bought the book mentioned in it and am reading on Kindle Cloud Reader. I love Amazon. Really, I do. Anyway:
“Research on fibromyalgia has lagged far behind other diseases, bogged down by controversy and a century of arguments about whether it’s a “real” illness.
This changed in 2002, when a groundbreaking study showed abnormalities in how the brain processes pain in fibromyalgia.
A much bigger factor is a stress (or danger) response that has gone haywire and is constantly on “red alert,” leading to a chain reaction that results in fatigue, brain fog, and muscle pain.
fibromyalgia is in many ways a sleep disorder, a state of chronic deep sleep deprivation. Studies have demonstrated over and over that patients experience inadequate deep sleep that is frequently interrupted by “wakeful” brain waves. This deep-sleep starvation contributes to the fatigue, muscle pain, and foggy thinking characteristic of the condition.
Treating sleep is the key to treating fibromyalgia, and it’s where I see the most benefit in reducing pain, fatigue, and brain fog. Sleep must always be improved before any other treatment will work, so it’s vital to address this with your health care provider to treat hidden sleep problems like obstructive sleep apnea and then add medications and supplements to help restore normal deep sleep.”
The sleep thing. I am dramatically better when I get enough unbroken sleep. Fewer hours or more broken sleep means more pain the next day. I’ve also finally connected weather to pain, because it got noticeably more humid the last two or three days, and I have been in a LOT of pain that pain meds aren’t helping with. In spite of rainy and showery days recently, the humidity stayed below 50%, and as soon as it went above that, ow. Major ow.
I so far am not nearly as fatigued as I was before the surgery, as well as a great deal of the time since I first got this eighteen years ago. Feeling hopeful that when the trazadone really kicks in I will sleep even more and better and have less pain. We’ll see how that goes. I try not to look ahead ever, but sometimes that little spark of hope starts burning.
That’s it for now. Just got started into the book, so if I learn any good stuff, I’ll post it here.
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we take it, what we do with it – and that is what really counts in the end.” ~ Joseph Fort Newton Words I live by, actually. The only person you have control over is yourself.
strangely peculiar 