RE: Re: How do you explain?-- To

[Guest guest]

, if the pain is at the bottom of your ribcage, right below or on the lowest

rib, that is something a lot of us have. When I get that it is excruciating to

touch, and makes sitting very difficult. Does that sound like the same thing?

Kinda like you've been punched with something sharpish?

The bracelets sound like a good idea. Maybe I should include some in my Elf

baskets? LOL!! But, it could help to wear one and maybe help spread the word? It

would be nice if they made really pretty ones that would attract the eye, then

people would want to take a closer look, and then we would have the perfect

opening. I did print out some information from the fmawareness site as well as

from the Fibrohugs site, and left it at my doctor's office with his permission.

I am going to ask him if I can put a poster up next May for FM Awareness day.

You can get the templates to print them out from Fibrohugs if any of you could

think of places to leave them. You can either make a small size on your own

printer, or take it to Kinkos or somewhere like that and print out a few larger

ones. I don't know if they have the templates on site right now, or not till

closer till May.

Peace and Love

Caroline

> My aunt called this am and while we were talking, she said she was

> wearing the fibro bracelet I had tossed in the box --- I was on the

> site whose newsletter I get all the time and found several things

> that I ordered. Among the items was a package of 5 bracelets and I

> really didn't know what I would do with them but as I was packing the

> books in the box, I saw the bracelets and thought, " What the heck,

> might be a way to spread the word " , wasn't certain, she is after all,

> in a nursing home. Well, I guess one of the senior nurses also has

> it so my aunt may have gotten some more info about what we go

> through. So, I guess one never knows where you can open up dialogue

> on this beast we live with daily. And I told my aunt that I had

> found a new sore spot in the past several days --- on the left side

> of my body, and it is either my ribs or whatever tissue surrounds

> them that are very sore. So, that has been causing me to wonder why

> I am sore there? Sleeping or lying on my left side when I am reading

> a very heavy book? Some hardbound ones I am reading now are so

> heavy, I have to prop them up on something -- have also been hit in

> the head when I fall asleep and they slide off the pillow. Oh, and

> Thursday night/Friday morning, I didn't get to sleep until around 6am

> again and at some point during those hours, I once again fell on the

> stairs and hurt both feet and ankles.

> But I have tried to tell as many people as possible about what it is

> like. These days it's more like have a case of the flu that never

> ends but that I have certain parts of my body that cause more pain

> than others.

> I guess I need to see if that site has any literature I can put in my

> purse and start handing out!!!

>

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