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A picture is a poem without words.



Check out my Newly Designed FMS Products. I have created a product line for us and will continue to add new designs. I will hopefully, soon have some items with our current Simple Pleasures with Fibromyalgia logo. I hope you find something that you like to help promote Fibromyalgia Awareness. Let me know what you think about my new designs. www.cafepress.com/fmspleasures Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by. Melissa




Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."



"For me a picture has to be something pleasant, delightful, and pretty - yes, pretty. There are enough unpleasant things in the world without us producing even more." ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)




Our Fibromyalgia Support Group...
www.flickr.com/groups/simple_pleasures_with_fibromyalgia/


I am a FIbromyalgia sufferer since 2003. Once my life consisted of running 4 very active boys to football, wrestling, basketball, and baseball. Chairing and co-chairing committees, organizaing events, and volunteering. It now consists of drugs that don't work, pain that never goes away, and lack of short term memory. The only things that have keep me going has been positive thinking, prayer, the complete and total surrender to a higher power and my family and friends. I am here to find friends that understand the daily struggles that I go thru and others who understand what our family can only so lovingly say that they understand; and to share my love for photography with others. The pain I suffer is sometimes unbearable. Fibromyalgia is very painful, and thousands of people live in severe pain everyday, including myself. Fibromyalgia is an illnesses characterized by a myriad of symptoms, which include severe long-term fatigue, body aches, poor sleep, achiness,brain fog,depression and anxiety, increased thirst, bowel disorders, and exhaustion in combination with tenderness in muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Fibromyalgia symptoms can overlap with autoimmune diseases and other musculoskeletal conditions making it difficult to diagnose. In recent years, physicians and researchers have speculated that fibromyalgia is caused by a previous viral infection or trauma, or that the patient was exposed to severe physical or mental stress. For those suffering from fibromyalgia, this disorder can be overwhelming - negatively impacting every facet of their lives. Having this disorder does not allow me to work on a full or even a part time basis. And with having four children this makes working and other routine activities even more difficult and unbearable. I frequently miss events and activities that I would have otherwise been attending. Modifying your diet, mediation and pray, massage, reduction of stress levels, refreshing sleep (at least 8 hours a night), an understanding doctor and the right combination of medications, as well as a supportive family are all a must, to be able to tolerate and live as normal as a life as possible.
Have a happy, healthy, pain free day.
Melissa

www.myspace.com/missa_simple_pleasures

"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." -- Annie Sullivan