Welcome new members

[Guest guest]

Welcome to the new members who have joined the group in the past few

days. This is a wonderful group. I hope you all find it as beneficial

as I have. Finding this group was the best thing that could have

happened for help in dealing with my fibro. Take care everyone.

P.S. Someone asked about ADD. I don't not have this, and don't have

very many of the symptoms. Keep in mind, many diseases and syndromes

have symptoms that overlap, or are very similar to others. It's very

easy to think you might have something you don't have, based on

having some common symptoms.

[Guest guest]

Dear Cathy,

Thank you for your support...I was feeling so beaten. In this

little town where we live, the " small people " like to talk...as in

I'm a faker...except that I have 2 scars on my neck for surgeries and

am treated for FMS and RA/OA, etc... I have never been a slacker,

but they sure like to make you feel that way!! And to think, I have

already paid in my SS quarters a couple of years ago (and above the

minimum level and I am only now 37!. Thank you; I will continue the

fight! This group is the greatest!!

LOVE & LIGHT,

[Guest guest]

Dear Cathy,

Thank you for your support...I was feeling so beaten. In this

little town where we live, the " small people " like to talk...as in

I'm a faker...except that I have 2 scars on my neck for surgeries and

am treated for FMS and RA/OA, etc... I have never been a slacker,

but they sure like to make you feel that way!! And to think, I have

already paid in my SS quarters a couple of years ago (and above the

minimum level and I am only now 37!. Thank you; I will continue the

fight! This group is the greatest!!

LOVE & LIGHT,

[Guest guest]

Dear Cathy,

Thank you for your support...I was feeling so beaten. In this

little town where we live, the " small people " like to talk...as in

I'm a faker...except that I have 2 scars on my neck for surgeries and

am treated for FMS and RA/OA, etc... I have never been a slacker,

but they sure like to make you feel that way!! And to think, I have

already paid in my SS quarters a couple of years ago (and above the

minimum level and I am only now 37!. Thank you; I will continue the

fight! This group is the greatest!!

LOVE & LIGHT,

[Guest guest]

wrote,

>

> I received another denial from Social Security today (#2); I am

> at a crossroads as to whether to " throw in the towel " or not. So

> very disappointing; I wouldn't wish it on another, but there are

> times that I wish that with whom I might be dealing with concerning

> my health needs could just feel what we people afflicted with these

> auto-immune syndromes go through in a day!

>

> I can't say that I know how you feel because I have never tried to get SS

> but I have read messages on this list from those that have tried many time

> until they finally got it. Please don't " throw in the towel. " Talk with

> those that have received and find out what they did and there might be

> something that you can try.

>

> I, too, wish that I could give this to some that I know for just one day.

> Let them live as we do; with the pain, fatigue, no energy, sleep and all of

> the other things that goes with fibro. When the day is over, I would like

> to hear just how they felt living with this and we do it 365 days out of

> every year. I think that they would have a big change of attitude but of

> course this cannot happen and I really would not wish this on my worse

> enemy.

>

> I will be staying home on the fourth. I fell out of bed this morning,

> landing on my wrists and toes bent under. The pain in intolerable. I am

> on my way to take another pain medication. Something had better help soon

> or you are going to hear me vent for miles around.

Take care,

Irene

Books may well be the only true magic

Alice Hoffman