WeAreFibro.org - The Social Support Network for People Living with Fibromyalgia

" LAST WISHES "

I want to walk down a gravel road.
Hear stones crunching under my feet.
On one side Daisys and Black eyed Susans,
On the other a field of swaying wheat.
I want to sit at an old picnic table,
Near a lake, in the woods, under trees.
That shouldn't be asking for too much.
There was a time I could do this when ever I pleased.
I want to ride my bike, take a hike,
Dig my toes down in hot ocean sand,
Smell cow plop all over pasture land.
I want to rake up a pile of red yellow and brown leaves.
Alas, a fineal plea amongst all of these,
Is to thank Jehovah one more time on bended knees

eileen "2007"

 

 

ARTHRITIS { Self Portrait }

She stands very tall, very strong
Her feet planted firmly in the ground
She could weather any storm
She did not waver in the strongest wind
Her beauty was subtle, ever changing
Like the seasons, with the seasons
Her arms stretched out to hold up ones in need
Her branches leafed out to shade others
Now shes old, wrinkled, knotted
Her limbs are twisted with pain
Oh Jehovah look, in your eyes shes still standing
Hopefully, forever to remain

by eileen 2008

 

 

 

MY LOBSTER CLAWS

My hands are like lobsters claws
Just one of my latest flaws
I can't pick up,hold onto, or grab
Thats why I've become such a crab
Because of all the things I used to do
I tell my daughter
I now feel like a fish out of water
Still I have so many blessings
like the sands near the sea
Someday I'm gonna be
Back to what I used to be

by eileen "2006

 

 

 

SOON THE SUN WILL COME OUT

 

SOON THE SUN WILL COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS
AND YOU WILL NOT BE HIDDEN DEEP WITHIN THE DARK
UNFAMILIAR CROWDS
YOUR BODY'S ENDLESS PAIN YOU PRAY, IN TIME DISAPPEARS
YOUR THOUGHTS GO BACK TO YOUTH AND PAINLESS YEARS
BUT HUSH, CLEAR AWAY THOSE UNATTAINABLE DREAMS AND
UNNECESSARY FEARS
FOR NOW, EVEN IN THE RAIN, EVEN WITH YOUR PAIN,STAND
TALL AND FIRM AND PROUD,
SOON THE SUN WILL COME OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS.

Eileen-2010

 

EILEEN'S PAGE....ARTHRITIS and FIBROMYALGIA

 

I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia.

It was bad enough with the arthritis for over twenty years,
but you get to know what works, what's not going to work.
How to deal with your bad days, what to do, how to cope.
Then three years ago all these new things were going on .
I wasn't able to take the light, even on a cloudy day I had
put down the visor in the car.
When my family was cooking, the smells coming into my
room made me sick....oh sooo sick.
Then I noticed I couldn't stand any loud noises.
The hardest thing though is the pains I get all the time in
my stomach and feeling sick to my stomach, all the time.
My daughter works for an attorney on Disability cases and
told me one day that she thought I had Fibromyalgia.
I did lots of reading, and learned it often fallows Arthritis.
But it was a commercial on the TV that convinced me of tge
fact that I now have Fibromyalgia.
So which one is giving me the most pain on my bad days ?
Which one should I medicate on those days and how ?

One other thing....I cough sometimes in the morning, never during the day.
But, I cough often at night. It starts at about 7:00 or 8:00 pm.
Its not a dry cough, seems like its in my chest.
I will be turning down my bed, have my electric blanket on to warm up my bed, and I cough, sometimes till it actually hurts my rib cage the whole time I'm doing this.
After I've gotten in bed and lye still for a few minuets, will I finally stop coughing.
Its very strange I think, when I move to Texas I'll go to a docter and find out about it.
The docter here didn't have any answers. hummmm

By the way, I didn't do this coughing thing till I got fibromyalgia.

You know, I'm glad I didn't get Fibro when I was young, it really stops you in your tracts more than arthritis.
I was close to being in a wheelchair when I got it so it couldn't change much in my life anyway.

 

Eileen