The Summer of Feels

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

This has been a year of the never-ending "somethings", as I call it. As in, there's always something happening, good or bad, and there's no slowing down. There hasn't been a lot of time to sit back and relax, enjoy or do much of anything extracurricular. 

The year started with finding out my mom had breast cancer, then immediately after that (like literally, the next day) we traveled to Boston and taped an episode of "I Found The Gown" for my sister. I planned my mom's benefit, which was equally awesome, emotional, stressful, rewarding, and exhausting. My cousin passed away at the age of 33 from a heart attack as the result of an enlarged heart, in August. Now school time is here and it's homework, meetings, cub scouts, and keeping our heads above water. 

Through it all, I've been silently (and sometimes not so silently) suffering; exhaustion, random aches and pains-including stiffness with staying in the same position for more than 20 minutes or so, tingling appendages, chest pain and stomach issues. It took from about April until August/September, but we finally figured out that I have fibromyalgia. I can't really explain this "disease". It's so complicated, hard to describe, hard to diagnose, and hard to convince people that you're actually suffering from something and not just whining all the time.

Being an editor/writer/paperwork girl, I'm sitting a lot, often cramped in the same position for hours without even thinking about it. I knew something was seriously wrong when I danced a single slow dance with my husband at a wedding and my hip hurt so bad, I could barely put weight on it. I mean, I know I'm out of shape, but I'm too young for arthritis...right?

So the last month or so has been a lot of symptom maintenance, chiropractor appointments, ice/heat packs and ibuprofen. I'm working on using natural methods to keep my symptoms at bay, including essential oils. 

I'm hoping that now I've learned that I need to slow my life down a little, enjoy the sweet little moments, I'll be able to write some more and keep you guys entertained. 

I've also been working on editing some more of M.R. Pritchard's work, and here's a little graphic for your enjoyment:

So that's what has been keeping me busy, and has kept me missing my blogging. I really hope that things work out so that I can come back here more often and chat. 

I've missed ya'll!!

Thanks for stopping by!