Schools out until July 6th!

Finished finals today and I get a break until July 6th! I will have to post later about how I did on the finals. I will share some other news though. Billy and Irais are engaged! I wonder if he talked to Mom about that (haha). Anyway, I have that much more incentive to learn Spanish now.
I have about a week and a half left to work and then I will be on hiatus from everything for about 2 weeks, hope it is enough time to get my house clean! I have had an offer from my daughter (Candy) to come and help me and I hope she does because there is a lot to catch up on around here.
Matt has to go back to school tomorrow to make a second attempt at the math portion of the CRCT, I hope he does well.
I am going to go now and work on my baby Pey-Pey's blanket.

Hasta Luego!

Spanish Lessons

I haven't posted this here yet but I am learning Spanish! At my job it has become necessary for me to speak to Spanish speaking clients and so I purchased this program from Visual Link and it has been wonderfully helpful. Visual Link offers the Spanish Dictionary that I have added to this blog so that I can incorporate Spanish in my daily activities as well as some of my post. Hope you enjoy!

Hasta luego!

Long time, no post

I know it has been quite a while since I last made a post. Since then I have gone through another tax season and started to take classes at the technical college. I decided to sit and make a more recent post after having yet another argument with my husband during which I realized that we may be nearing the end of our run. I thought to make a post so that I have some type of outlet for all of the sadness and despair that is my life as I have no one person to share it with and I guess I am in the hopes that someone will read it and help me to feel better. For many months, years even, I have blamed the bulk of our issues on the Fibro, but at this point in time I just can't say that everything that is wrong is because of this illness. Yes, it does make me miserable and it makes me tired and I can't do things I want to do and there are times when I am not the easiest person to live with but for the last few months, other than the exhaustion from working long hours and then staying up to study, I have probably felt better than I have in years! I personally think that it is because I have a goal to work toward now and it has given me purpose (school). This positive note is countered by my husbands negative feelings about the very same things! He hates tax season because I have to work hours that interfere with his schedule and I am not able to be home to cook dinner, etc. and he is equally as dissatisfied that I have finally started back to school, the only possible reason I have for that is insecurity on his part. There is no other logical solution as it is not costing him anything for me to go and I am only taking one class at the school, the others are online.
I welcome any comments and/or suggestions anyone may have to help me to cope with all these conflicting feelings, I just don't know what else I can do in this situation. He is unhappy about everything, it is not just one thing. My life is the epitome of the old dilemma, "Damned if you don't, damned if you do". I actually even feel guilty for posting anything about him but I don't know what else to do because I need to talk to someone or some thing or I am going to lose my mind!

System Mechanic Giveaway!!! Click pic for more information.

Ok, this is just a quick post to say that I am going to be making a post tomorrow... I guess that sounds silly but if I don't make a statement and hold myself accountable, I will not make a post AGAIN!
Until tomorrow.......

New Post

OK, so it's been a few days since I made a post. This is due mainly to my obsession with Facebook social interaction games! I have been communicating with some old friends and making new ones on a few of these applications but have also been spending some time online (and in person since he is in the same room with me) with my youngest son, Matt. He is 13 and really enjoys these applications that use avatars to represent reality. I personally enjoy them because I am able to do things that I am not able to do in real life, like dancing, jumping, getting out to meet new people.
Anyway, I did not start this post to blab about the pros and cons of these sites, I really just wanted to note that I am going to get my Nuclear Stress Test done in the morning at 8:30 AM. In addition to all of the other issues I deal with on a daily basis, I have recently been experiencing chest pain and numbness and tingling(more than usual). I decided I had better have it checked out since I worked with a Cardiology Group for 5 years and I know that this kind of thing can go bad, fast!
I am also scheduled to go get a Mammogram and Bone Scan next week but I will post more on that later.
So, I will post my results in the next few days for all that are interested.

Fibromyalgia in a nutshell

I have been asked to write a blog post to explain what Fibromyalgia is so that those of you who have not had any experience with it would have more information and I will attempt to do that now.

There is no "black and white" description of Fibromyalgia which is why for years many people, including Doctors, did not believe it actually existed. I will go so far as to say that there are folks who still don't believe it exist (my husband would fall into that category, in my opinion). Although every person that is diagnosed with Fibromyalgia is sure to have different symptoms and experiences, one thing is common to all; chronic, unexplained pain and fatigue (meaning we are tired and we hurt all the time with no medical reason). There are also these "tender points" that Dr's. check for pain and tenderness before diagnosis and I think you have to have like 11 out of the 18 known "tender points" to "qualify". The image at the top of this blog shows where the tender points are (shown by the dots).

I guess the reason why people did not believe that this was a real condition for so long is that there is no medical explanation for the symptoms, I went for every test known to man with no abnormal results before a final diagnosis was made. From a Doctors point of view, I can see how this would be quite perplexing, but to the patient, it is just plain frustrating!

I know people have heard about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chroic Pain Syndrome, Depression, Sleep Disorders/Disturbances, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and I could go on and on but I won't. Fibromyalgia is like having all of those things going on at the same time with no refief in sight.

I am going to include a link to WebMD because they have everything that is known about this condition on there and like I said before, not every person has every symptom. http://www.webmd.com/fibromyalgia/default.htm

Here is a youtube video that I share with all of the folks that don't want to believe this is real or that think people just make it up or think they know what I need to do to "fix" myself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyK2KjO3jok

I will do a separate post to give you my background, my story of how it all started for me, etc.