Living

  Fibromyalgia fighters have all the ailments listed in this blog: 5-thing-you-must-know-about-fibromyalgia and so much more. Over and above that, they have them on another level! We call these higher grade aliments “ flares ”. Imagine the following: 1. Headaches The eyes feel like they will pop out of the socket, and the forehead like it is being skinned with no anaesthesia. When you lift your head from the pillow, it feels like you are leaving a part of it on the pillow still. Dizzy spells are common, especially after getting up from sitting, squatting or bending. 2. Fatigue The body feels like you are wearing a bodysuit that weighs 50kg or 110lbs. Walking is so difficult that you have to use the walls to help balance yourself. More often than not, this bodysuit appears out of nowhere at the most inopportune times — even when you’re sleeping. It harms breathing and body balance. 3. Insomnia If one can sleep at all, one must consider themselves lucky! A bed at time...

    1.             Fibromyalgia is a disorder/chronic pain syndrome/long-term condition that causes pain and tenderness all over your body; skin and scalp ailments as well as mental distress.   2.             Symptoms may vary from day to day depending on the weather; and from person to person depending on the severity of the condition. It has a buffet of different diseases co-existing with it, such as, to name but 20:   a)     Chronic muscle pain, stiffness;  b)  Insomnia (lack of sleep);  c)  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (lack of energy);  d)  Migraine and other types of headaches;  e)  Interstitial Cystitis or painful Bladder Syndrome;  f)  Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (disorders of the jaw);  g)  Anxiety and Depression;  h)  Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (heart r...

Anything and everything comes with a set of guidelines on how to use it. Whatever you buy will come with a manual on how to put it together for effective use. We can't buy a Sony and find a manual of a Phillips.  Living has it's own set of rules, depending on which doctrine you partake in. Other doctrines are written and others are taught culturally. Some take a bit (not everything) of the written and a bit of the taught or instilled in them. A dab here and a dab there. Personally, there are things hat I was taught that would never ever practise in my adult life nor teach my children. I choose to follow the doctrine of the Holy Bible.  He is my maker and it makes sense that I go near to him so that he can come near to me.  Ecclesiastes teaches that there is a time for everything under the sun. A time to mourn! It takes us by surprise and ravages our hearts into shreds. I'm still mourning the passing of my brother 6 months ago. He took a bullet to the head. I wonder how lo...

Living   I am living. You are living. We are living though we take a whole lot for granted. The invisible air that we breathe.  The honour of seeing new sights every time we blink.  We understand invisible sounds from others' words or sign language.  Movement, the magic of telling your brain you want to raise your arm or hold a fist. My only brother is not living.  As of 18 May 2019, my brother ceased to live.  Nothing of his is moving, all because of a piece of metal that was pressed against his head and a trigger was pulled.  Assassination? Taken out?  Murdered? He left us confused!  He was the one who was to take care of the family home.