Re: Pushing thru

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I'll chime in here too. I have found if I try to push thru or keep on

like I used to, I pay for it later that day or the next few days. So

I bought a slightly larger daily calendar that still fits in my purse

(somehow, not sure how though!). Anyhow, I make sure NOT to schedule

too much (I used to try to get all doctors on same day, etc.) and if

there is something special coming up, I try to make sure that the day

or two before are " clear " . I may putter in my house a little, but I

don't become " SUPERMOM " and bust thru the house with my mop and broom

and dust rag. Because it'll be there the next day.

And it DOES frustrate me that what used to take me a few hours or

even a day to accomplish (housecleaning and laundry for instance) now

has to be spaced out over the week or at least several days. But I

can still do it for the most part (DH does the sweeping and mopping

as they trigger lovely spasms); there are so many who cannot due to

other conditions.

So as the saying goes, I'll take it one day at a time. Today is a so-

so day; I have a lovely headache that I know is remnant from sleeping

in the hospital bed. It'll work itself out (can feel the knots in my

shoulders) if I just continue to try and relax!

Darlene

And the ONLY reason my roots are not showing is I had my hair done

two weeks prior to going into the hospital!

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> You guys hit the nail right on the head! Pushing through the pain

to do

> something - or choosing to make yourself do something. That's

exactly how

> life is with fibro for me (and I'm sure for many others.) One

thing I've

> learned the hard way is to choose NOT to do something. I used to

be the

> type that had to have everything done all the time. It's been

difficult to

> learn to let things go mainly because I can't play super woman

anymore. It

> seems when I didn't get everything done I had major guilt. I think

that

> came from my upbringing and a bad ex-husband. Most things will

still be

> there tomorrow.

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> And Debra V - mine is brown with gray roots which I made myself

color last

> week after way too long. :-)

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> Teri (central Wisconsin)

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