Since FIBROMYLAGIA is one of the many conditions I suffer from, (and probably the most bothersome of all my illnesses... except maybe migraines, but that's a different story), and since I just got shots for it yesterday, I decided to do some research on it. So here's a quick study for fibromyalgia for you:
"You hurt all over, and you frequently feel exhausted. Even after numerous tests, your doctor can't find anything specifically wrong with you. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition characterized by widespread pain in your muscles, ligaments and tendons, as well as fatigue and multiple tender points — places on your body where slight pressure causes pain.
Fibromyalgia occurs in about 2 percent of the population in the United States. Women are much more likely to develop the disorder than are men, and the risk of fibromyalgia increases with age. Fibromyalgia symptoms often begin after a physical or emotional trauma, but in many cases there appears to be no triggering event.
Symptoms: Signs and symptoms of fibromyalgia can vary, depending on the weather, stress, physical activity or even the time of day.
Widespread pain and tender points: The pain associated with fibromyalgia is described as a constant dull ache, typically arising from muscles. To be considered widespread, the pain must occur on both sides of your body and above and below your waist.
Fibromyalgia is characterized by additional pain when firm pressure is applied to specific areas of your body, called tender points. Tender point locations include:
Back of the head
Between shoulder blades
Top of shoulders
Front sides of neck
Upper chest
Outer elbows
Upper hips
Sides of hips
Inner knees
Causes
Doctors don't know what causes fibromyalgia, but it most likely involves a variety of factors working together.
These may include:
Genetics. Because fibromyalgia tends to run in families, there may be certain genetic mutations that may make you more susceptible to developing the disorder.
Infections. Some illnesses appear to trigger or aggravate fibromyalgia.
Physical or emotional trauma. Post-traumatic stress disorder has been linked to fibromyalgia.
Why does it hurt?
Current thinking centers around a theory called central sensitization. This theory states that people with fibromyalgia have a lower threshold for pain because of increased sensitivity in the brain to pain signals.
Researchers believe repeated nerve stimulation causes the brains of people with fibromyalgia to change. This change involves an abnormal increase in levels of certain chemicals in the brain that signal pain (neurotransmitters). In addition, the brain's pain receptors seem to develop a sort of memory of the pain and become more sensitive, meaning they can overreact to pain signals." -(content provided by -Mayoclinic.com)
10.28.2010
10.26.2010
Again, again?
Soooooooo...
I've realized that since starting school, my creativity level has gone down. Significantly. It's like, I'm using a whole different part of my brain to work with the science and exactness of medicine and anatomy, so I haven't had time to really write or be creative...
I finished a test early yesterday, and I was just doodling on the back on my paper... and I just started writing, and I realized how much I miss it! Time to start back with prose and poetry... mmmm... just saying it sounds good!
I've realized that since starting school, my creativity level has gone down. Significantly. It's like, I'm using a whole different part of my brain to work with the science and exactness of medicine and anatomy, so I haven't had time to really write or be creative...
I finished a test early yesterday, and I was just doodling on the back on my paper... and I just started writing, and I realized how much I miss it! Time to start back with prose and poetry... mmmm... just saying it sounds good!
10.22.2010
Sock Money Slippers Of Joy
I saw these slippers once. They had sock-monkey faces on them. At Target. A while ago. I thought they were amazing, but I was there to buy envelopes, not adorable slippers... SO I DIDN'T buy them. Now I regret it like... like... like swallowing that quarter that one time. Yeah. Major regret.
I haven't found them in stores again ever since. WOuldn't matter anyways now, since I do not own money. Poop.
CHIRSTMAS, ANYONE?
I haven't found them in stores again ever since. WOuldn't matter anyways now, since I do not own money. Poop.
CHIRSTMAS, ANYONE?
I don't think my life will be complete until I own a pair.
10.19.2010
Money in Your Pockets
I feel like leaving money in all my coat pockets just for a surprise when I put them on later this year. Seriously, isn't that the best thing ever? Putting on an old jacket, and finding random things in your pocket? Especially money?
(I say random things because one time I found a spoon. I never figured out why it was in there. But it still made me laugh.)
I think I should cheer up my future self and hide some money for myself to find.
.... Oh, wait. First I'd need money. Crap. There goes that idea.
(I say random things because one time I found a spoon. I never figured out why it was in there. But it still made me laugh.)
I think I should cheer up my future self and hide some money for myself to find.
.... Oh, wait. First I'd need money. Crap. There goes that idea.
10.18.2010
Hurt Feelings and Health Care Essentials
So, I sit next to this lady in my Health Care Essentials class. I like her a lot. She's funny and randomly optimistic about strange things, and she always has funny stories to tell about her work--- she's a home health keeper for people who can't take care of themselves/need babysitting/etc.
The thing about my friend is that she sometimes lacks a filter from her brain to her mouth. When she has a thought or question, she blurts it out. She doesn't say anything inappropriate, she just says a lot of things. This annoys a lot of the other students.
I feel that it's lucky I sit next to her instead of someone else, because I find it easy to like people who lots of other people don't. I guess I'm patient, because she doesn't get on my nerves, even though she's always copying my notes or assuming I'll help her study just because I get better grades. She's my friend.
Last Wednesday, we had our first one-on-one conference with our teacher. Among other things, I asked my teacher how I should handle this lady, how I could encourage her to still be excited about what we were learning about without being obnoxious or annoying other students. He said that he was going to talk to her about it.
Turns out, some of the students had been sending him e-mails about how my friend was irritating and wasting class time and complaining about her. Instead of being sensative to the situation, our teacher flat out told her about the e-mails and that students found her irriating. How mean was that? He could have just told her that he was happy she was excited about the material, but to give the other students chances to answers to questions or something like that. He didn't have to hurt her feelings like that. It really hurt her.
Sure, my friend wanted to know that she was being irritating to others, but it could have been handled much better. I feel bad for her. We're having a study date tomorrow and hopefully I can heal some of the wounds, and we can sort out how she can still get involved with our materials in a more appropriate way that she's still excited about.
The thing about my friend is that she sometimes lacks a filter from her brain to her mouth. When she has a thought or question, she blurts it out. She doesn't say anything inappropriate, she just says a lot of things. This annoys a lot of the other students.
I feel that it's lucky I sit next to her instead of someone else, because I find it easy to like people who lots of other people don't. I guess I'm patient, because she doesn't get on my nerves, even though she's always copying my notes or assuming I'll help her study just because I get better grades. She's my friend.
Last Wednesday, we had our first one-on-one conference with our teacher. Among other things, I asked my teacher how I should handle this lady, how I could encourage her to still be excited about what we were learning about without being obnoxious or annoying other students. He said that he was going to talk to her about it.
Turns out, some of the students had been sending him e-mails about how my friend was irritating and wasting class time and complaining about her. Instead of being sensative to the situation, our teacher flat out told her about the e-mails and that students found her irriating. How mean was that? He could have just told her that he was happy she was excited about the material, but to give the other students chances to answers to questions or something like that. He didn't have to hurt her feelings like that. It really hurt her.
Sure, my friend wanted to know that she was being irritating to others, but it could have been handled much better. I feel bad for her. We're having a study date tomorrow and hopefully I can heal some of the wounds, and we can sort out how she can still get involved with our materials in a more appropriate way that she's still excited about.
Dad---
Pop, you already went to bed, but I thought I'd let you know:
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Make sure you click back on the "comments" button on the post to double-check if your comment went through. It can be cranky sometimes.
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Make sure you click back on the "comments" button on the post to double-check if your comment went through. It can be cranky sometimes.
10.16.2010
Favorite Quotes
Some of my favorite OTHER quotes :)
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." -Harold B. Lee
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Ann Frank
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (one of my favorite people ever born)
"Questions are not a sign of weakness but of growth. We are not wrong when we doubt, but only when we fail to do something about it." -Brad Wilcox
"A smile will gain you ten more years of life." -Chinese Proverb
And, because I'm a dreamer of all dreams:
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of deams..." -Arthur O' Shaughnessy
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined." -Thoreau
"No dreamer is ever too small, no dream is ever too big." -Unknown.
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry." -Harold B. Lee
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Ann Frank
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss (one of my favorite people ever born)
"Questions are not a sign of weakness but of growth. We are not wrong when we doubt, but only when we fail to do something about it." -Brad Wilcox
"A smile will gain you ten more years of life." -Chinese Proverb
And, because I'm a dreamer of all dreams:
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of deams..." -Arthur O' Shaughnessy
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined." -Thoreau
"No dreamer is ever too small, no dream is ever too big." -Unknown.
Spiritual Quotes
Some of my favorite Spirtiual quotes :)
"May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean theat we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life." -Heber J. Grant
"For with God, nothing shall be impossible." -Luke 1:37
"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our guest, in that movement God will endow us power." - Ezra Taft Benson
"The greatest lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will ALWAYS BE RIGHT." President Monson
"Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heave's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?" L. Tom Perry
"May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean theat we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life." -Heber J. Grant
"For with God, nothing shall be impossible." -Luke 1:37
"When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our guest, in that movement God will endow us power." - Ezra Taft Benson
"The greatest lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will ALWAYS BE RIGHT." President Monson
"Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heave's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?" L. Tom Perry
Facts of my Childhood
FACT: In the fourth grade, I drank a glass of toilet water to impress my best friends older cousin (who was a boy). It worked.
FACT: In elementary school, my Razor scooter had orange handle bars and lightup wheels. It was amazingly cool.
FACT: I used to spit on people who smoked. My parents were not pleased. But secretly proud.
FACT: I was a pumpkin for my first Halloween.
FACT: I was a very PRETTY baby and toddler. Which is not a bragging thing, it’s a true thing.
FACT: My parents had to bribe me to stay in my car seat with gum. Otherwise I would climb out. Apparently, I climbed most things, quietly.
FACT: Aladdin was by far my favorite Disney movie. My dad still quotes it sometimes.
FACT: I broke my foot in the sixth grade by tripping over my own shoe. It was casted on Halloween. My dad pushed me around in a wheel chair, and I got a ton of candy that year.
FACT: My teddy bear was named Simon by my father, after Simon and Garfunkel. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually listened to Simon and Garfunkel. Simon still sits in my room, and he still wears the yellow coat I stole from my sister’s baby doll collection.
FACT: Steph and I’s Barbie’s were always naked. We’d take them into the bath with us, so their hair was permanently ratty. We tried to blow-dry their hair, and it started to smoke.
FACT: On Sunday mornings before church, my dad would blow-dry my hair. He’d be my stylist, and he’s ask if I wanted Cinderella hair, or Belle hair, or Odette hair.
FACT: When we went to buy a kitten when I was 8, Diego was curled up, fast asleep in the corner of the display window. I was way mad when my mom picked him, complaining that he was way lazy and boring. And look how it turned out.
(FACT: Diego is currently lying on my arms, watching me type like usual, making things very difficult. He is purring, because he loves me.)
FACT: I’ve only played video games a handful of times in my whole life. Steph and I weren’t into them. We played computer games.
FACT: I grew up on public television. We didn’t get cable until I was thirteen, when it showed up for free. Arthur is still my all-time favorite show.
FACT: I used to wear my tutu over my clothes. Everyday. For like, two years. That or bathing suits.
FACT: This was way fun to do. I think everyone should do a FACTS OF MY CHILDHOOD.
FACT: In elementary school, my Razor scooter had orange handle bars and lightup wheels. It was amazingly cool.
FACT: I used to spit on people who smoked. My parents were not pleased. But secretly proud.
FACT: I was a pumpkin for my first Halloween.
FACT: I was a very PRETTY baby and toddler. Which is not a bragging thing, it’s a true thing.
FACT: My parents had to bribe me to stay in my car seat with gum. Otherwise I would climb out. Apparently, I climbed most things, quietly.
FACT: Aladdin was by far my favorite Disney movie. My dad still quotes it sometimes.
FACT: I broke my foot in the sixth grade by tripping over my own shoe. It was casted on Halloween. My dad pushed me around in a wheel chair, and I got a ton of candy that year.
FACT: My teddy bear was named Simon by my father, after Simon and Garfunkel. I don’t believe I’ve ever actually listened to Simon and Garfunkel. Simon still sits in my room, and he still wears the yellow coat I stole from my sister’s baby doll collection.
FACT: Steph and I’s Barbie’s were always naked. We’d take them into the bath with us, so their hair was permanently ratty. We tried to blow-dry their hair, and it started to smoke.
FACT: On Sunday mornings before church, my dad would blow-dry my hair. He’d be my stylist, and he’s ask if I wanted Cinderella hair, or Belle hair, or Odette hair.
FACT: When we went to buy a kitten when I was 8, Diego was curled up, fast asleep in the corner of the display window. I was way mad when my mom picked him, complaining that he was way lazy and boring. And look how it turned out.
(FACT: Diego is currently lying on my arms, watching me type like usual, making things very difficult. He is purring, because he loves me.)
FACT: I’ve only played video games a handful of times in my whole life. Steph and I weren’t into them. We played computer games.
FACT: I grew up on public television. We didn’t get cable until I was thirteen, when it showed up for free. Arthur is still my all-time favorite show.
FACT: I used to wear my tutu over my clothes. Everyday. For like, two years. That or bathing suits.
FACT: This was way fun to do. I think everyone should do a FACTS OF MY CHILDHOOD.
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| I couldn't find a picture of me as a chitlin on my computer. I think this was when I was 14. Oh well. Still funny. |
IHOP: Cinn-a-stack Pancakes
What are my two favorite foods in the world?
1.Cinnamon rolls. 2. Pancakes.
Therefore, what would be the most delicious idea of all time?
HENCE: IHOP's Cinn-a-stack pancakes. You take three pancakes, and you slather them with cinnamon-roll filling, then top it all off with cream cheese icing.
YES PLEASE.
Also in Cin-a-stack French Toast. Also extremely delicious.
Thank you, IHOP, for making the world a better place.
1.Cinnamon rolls. 2. Pancakes.
Therefore, what would be the most delicious idea of all time?
HENCE: IHOP's Cinn-a-stack pancakes. You take three pancakes, and you slather them with cinnamon-roll filling, then top it all off with cream cheese icing.
YES PLEASE.
Also in Cin-a-stack French Toast. Also extremely delicious.
Thank you, IHOP, for making the world a better place.
10.11.2010
Toothpaste
Anyone who has ever lived with me has witnessed the fact that I am physically incapable of brushing my teeth without getting it all over myself.
Why? Who knows. I just can't do it.
So, like always, when a tube of toothpaste ran out, I went to the store to get a new one. This time, I picked out some special teeth-whitening one, and guess what? It foams. Like crazy. Like I didn't have enough trouble... now it looks like I've got rabies and am about to pounce on the next innocent victim that passes my way.
Ha. Now I might have to pretend that I really do have rabies next time I brush my teeth.
....Where's my toothbrush?
Why? Who knows. I just can't do it.
So, like always, when a tube of toothpaste ran out, I went to the store to get a new one. This time, I picked out some special teeth-whitening one, and guess what? It foams. Like crazy. Like I didn't have enough trouble... now it looks like I've got rabies and am about to pounce on the next innocent victim that passes my way.
Ha. Now I might have to pretend that I really do have rabies next time I brush my teeth.
....Where's my toothbrush?
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