FUNny Thing Happened.....on the Way to the Fibromyalgia Circus!

This isn't actually a fibro moment. I decided that I would take my mind of that for today by having a mammogram. . . yes I know, "what was I thinking?"  Anyway, with one side done, the tech seemed to be spending alot more time with the left sista. Finally she says, "I'm so sorry! It just won't stay where I put it!"  So I say to her, " I wouldn't feel too bad about that. They didn't exactly stay where God put 'em either."  Things went smoothly after that! : )

Cindy, in the future can you make a note at the beginning of your posts warning folks not to take a drink of anything while reading your stuff?   I just spit pepsi all over my monitor when I laughed!!  

Love your sense of humor!!!

My symptoms of FMS started when I was in OT school but were dramatically better after I discovered IgG food allergy testing (and ate compliantly), so I started a many-year cycle of getting jobs working for employers because they provided health insurance.  And as the health industry changed dramatically in the 1990s and start of the 21st century, it was clear to me that for ME, I needed to quit trying to fit my fibromyalgia and me into those kinds of jobs because they literally were NOT helping my health!  In the state of Colorado, we are fortunate to have insurance through the state that you can obtain if you are 'uninsuranble' and you need to have a letter of declination from an insurance company in order to quality for the program. 

So I called up my outpatient clinic's Aflec representative to ask if HE knew of any other insurance I could get before I resigned myself to the state program.  He'd been at meetings that I'd been out so kind of remembered me and he always was a really nice, funny guy, but here I am calling him about MY health insurance, and he's taking it very seriously.  I told him the story and that I have fibromyalgia and he said 'Then you're an automatic 'knockout'".  I responded "I haven't been called THAT in years!  I'm in my 40's -- if anyone calls me a knockout for any circumstance, I'll take it!"

I think he wasn't expecting someone who he thought was going to be hearing 'bad news about your insurance' to have a response like that.  We had a good laugh and since Aflec doesn't have health insurance for me to get that letter from,  I went on to call the local very good health insurance company's customer service rep and told him the story, got my letter of declination (and gosh it made me understand HOW frustrating those jobs are to people -- having to say 'sorry' to people who have pre-existing conditions), and was on my way to what I am happy to say has been pretty good insurance.  I understand next year the local insurance company has won the contract for the insurance I have, so it ends up being a full loop.  

That's probably my best overall 'fibro funny'.... will look forward to reading more of yours here!  Please add!  Remember, Lumigrate utlizes the username and password only for interacting if we need to with our users and to send out major news to y'all. 

Oh: Another one that is just a 'Mardyism':

Mardy says to friend Liz at her house when she arrives to socialize "I'm on my way to the Post Office"

Mardy and Liz talk for an hour or so and then Liz presents an envelope with a stamp and says "Will you mail this for me at the Post Office?"  ... to which I responded: "I'm going to the Post Office?"   (she keeps me around for entertainment)  .. grins!  Laughter is good medicine and how you 'self talk' about these silly things we do, the better!

LOL!  Thanks, I needed to know that.  At least it's not just me!  Personally, my knees have become better friends with my breasts now that I'm older. 

I'm sorry! (hehehe) Be sure to read the name first in the future! : )

We adopted two puppies from the local Humane Society, Ricky and Lucy.  They were nine weeks old when we brought them home.  Cute as buttons, little fur balls, dumb as nails.  I come from the "dog world" so I knew they needed "crates", choker collars, six foot leashes, obedience training (outside the house), housebreaking... you know, the works.  My son was very helpful with the obedience training, my husband was great with the housebreaking.

I was having a really bad day, very painful, I could barely stand up let alone walk and the puppies had to go out (it had been two hours since their last potty break), so I stood up from the couch and immediately fell to floor when I was bombarded by these two black masses with pink tongues licking me up and down all over my face and arms, my legs and feet.  Thus was born, PUPPY CPR!

I have a 6 month Saint Bernard male named Dakota.  Prior to becoming sick 6 yrs ago I had had several Saints.  They are so loving and gentle.  I eventually had to get rid of my old Saint because I had lost my house and my son and I had to move in with my mother and step-father.  About 3 yrs ago we finally were able to get our own duplex.  And yes I had to have my dog!  He has been the best motivator for me.  I have to get out of bed.  I have to walk him.  He may not know it but he has helped me!  Now we added another 7 1/2 week female Saint, Izzy.  There are somethings that I'm just not able to do with Dakota that another dog can!  So it's me, my 13 yr old son, 2 cats, and 2 puppies!!!

Zoftic!  Great "puppy love" story. 

I 'come from the dog world' too!  My dad was in the USAF when he met my mom in Albuquerque, NM -- she and 3 of her sorority sister from Wittenburg (girls college in Ohio) had migrated to Albuquerque when they graduated circa 1951 I want to say.  Dad was then sent to England, and the lived next to someone who had those beautiful light golden retrievers that were the 'norm' in England at the time.  They brought three back with them when he retired from the Air Force and they moved to the mountains outside of Denver.  Cleopatra, Sheiba, and gosh I can't remember the third one, I'll have to ... a male.  Then they had Adam and Eve -- Adam because a Grand Champion.  Our home movies, which I just had transferred to DVD last year, show me as a little one pulling myself up to standing prior to walking and taking my first steps outside with these GREAT dogs ... then bam, one would knock me over.  It's comical!  And one of my first memories is mom coming to me in bed in the morning and saying 'the mom has gone outside to go to the bathroom and left the puppies, if you get up now you can hold one' and she wrapped it up in one of my cloth diapers (then used as rags, I was out of diapers) and this great puppy smell as it was trying to suckle on my left earlobe.

About a dozen litters later I adopted my 'Peach', who was an 'oops' (a male collie had jumped the fence apparently -- there was one that lived about half a mile up the road), and she and I went on to win first place in obedience the first year and we didn't proceed after that.  She was clearly doing it 'to please me' and she really didn't like 4-H and the next year was a lot of jumping and she just was a runt personality and we preferred the time alone hiking and snowshoing.   She would get snow packed into her paws, and she figured out if she got on the back of my snowshoes (the old fashioned kind in those days, with the rawhide and wood frames with the long 'tail' on them) and just went along with my steps she would had it easy!  Such great memories!  I actually wanted to grow up to raise seeing eye dogs, but my mom told me 'everyone wants to do that, do something more practical'.  So ..... here I am with a website to get people anywhere in the world free and low-cost, unbiased, holistic 'integrative medicine' and talking about my true love -- DOGS! 

I haven't had a dog since Peach -- who stayed with my parents on their lovely property when I went to college, and then I've worked such unbelievable schedules as a medical provider.  But it's on the list for 'someday when I have the time and space'.  Part of my 'recipe for success' with having fibromyalgia has been to eventually learn how to simplify and only put on my plate the priorities.  And for ME, my work and some key and important relationships, hiking and getting out to music and watching sunsets has balanced out.  I hope to be increasingly gone traveling and meeting new providers and contributors for Lumigrate.com in the next few years and then eventually get to where I can live in a quiet little place with a couple of cats and dogs and lamas and contribute to Lumigrate from there.  We'll see, eh?  ~~ Mardy