Today I dropped a bunch of 2 x 4s on my foot. It’s swollen and bruised, but after letting off a few swear words I went back to my original task. My son asked me if I was going to rest my foot and was surprised when I told him no. His question made me realize that I’m just used to functioning on a much higher level of pain than normal people. What’s a swollen foot compared to pain spread throughout your entire body? That’s when I realized that I was awesome and kind of a bad ass. Not only am I awesome, but so is anyone else with Fibromyalgia or any other chronic illness.
5 reasons Fibromyalgia makes you awesome
1. You have a real life superpower
You can withstand incredible amounts of pain that would knock a healthy person flat on their back. You walk around like normal, but inside you are stronger than everyone else because you have been through so much.
2. You sympathize with others
Whether they are feeling physical, emotional, or spiritual pain, the battles you have fought taught you to care for other people. You know what it’s like to struggle, to be misunderstood, to be ignored, and you don’t want other people feeling that way.
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3. You can find joy in the smallest things.
The limitations of your disease have taught you to take nothing for granted. You may notice the sound of the birds, or the color of the sky more than you did before you got sick. You don’t take a good day for granted, even if you don’t do anything exciting.
4. You adapt well to change
No one likes change and most people avoid it as much as possible. And yet you face uncertainty every single day and manage to conquer it. Each day you wake up and you have no idea how you’re going to feel and how it’s going to effect your life, it’s a complete guessing game. Yet you manage to adjust to whatever your body throws at you every single day.
5. You are a medical expert
When you first got sick you thought the doctors would take care of you, but you quickly learned that most doctors are less than helpful. So you waded into the murky waters of the internet trying to find more information. You learned what sources were accurate and what sources should be discarded. You figured out the minutia of your disease and found a way to live with it. You literally know more about your illness than most doctors, and that makes you awesome.
It definitely doesn’t feel like it on the hard days, but Fibromyalgia makes you awesome.
I'm not usually so positive, but I figured I would give it a try!
I love this! I do really think it makes us special. It's important to try to see the joy in the little things.
Wow, this is SO true! And I've heard people say that people with fibro have a LOWER pain tolerance. Soooo not true!!! I know for a fact I have a very high pain tolerance. I'm a badass too!! 🙂
I know, right? It drives me crazy when people say we have lower pain tolerance when it's the total opposite.
Very up-lifting! That just made my day. Why yes, we are all total bad asses! 🙂
Very up-lifting! That just made my day. Why yes, we are all total bad asses! 🙂
Today I am committing badassery from my couch. Directing people how to cook dinner from a whole other room is a wicked good skill.
Today I am committing badassery from my couch. Directing people how to cook dinner from a whole other room is a wicked good skill.
Thank you so much! Just today I needed to read something like this. I felt really bad about my condition and about getting up every day even when I have so much pain, and now, after reading this I feel really good about myself. Even with all the pain I’m feeling I get up everyday and continue with my life. I need too and I have too. I have a 6 years old that needs me, and I want to be there for her. Yes, I have a super power. I can continue even with my pain. I go to work, I try to do and effort to be there for my daughter, I try to make new things despite the pain I’m feeling, I do continue.
Yes, sometimes I feel too bad just to get up of my bed, but I really try and after few hours I do get up and continue to move and do things as nothing is happening when in reality I’m dealing with a lot of pain all over my body.
Thank you, I got up today with a smile in my face and willing to try to do it better everyday, because I have a superpower!!! 🙂
Hope you feel better everyday and some day the pain goes away.
xoxoxoxox
I love it – thank you for such a great reminder of how amazing women are that live in chronic pain.
Whao, what a eye opener???never thought it through like that! So, so true. Thank you out of the bottom of my heart