Re: A Newly Diagnosed FMS Patient’s Transformation

[Guest guest]

Just beautiful. Thanks for the encouragement to keep moving forward!

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> Viewing My Life Through the Rear-View Mirror: A Newly Diagnosed FMS Patient's

Transformation

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> By Lannette J. , 2006 CF Alliance Newsletter

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> Since receiving a diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome (or FMS), I have

found that I am frantically searching for a " new normal. " Everything in my life

- bathing, household chores, surviving in corporate America, is defined by my

illness – by what I could do before and after my diagnosis. It's like watching

my life through the rear-view mirror, observing everything I've known slip out

of view and into the mist of the past.

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> I grieve for my old self. I cry for the person I was before the pain was

such an obvious and overwhelming monster. I shed tears for each tender place in

my body that screams from the neuropathy that has overtaken my life. I see my

old self in the rear- view mirror, waving goodbye to the prisoner I've now

become. I miss her, and wonder if I'll ever see her again.