It's been raining all night and morning here.
Hubby and I have been in an ongoing argument since yesterday about pain. He claims that all pain is just pain and compared fibro to body building.... and body building hurts, asked, if they can "get used to it" why can't you? Boy, you should see the steam coming out of my ears. I told him body builders hurt the day after their workout, but the pain is gone after that. Our fibro pain never goes away. Plus they don't have to manage like 10,000 symptoms with 100 specialists like the way we fibro warriors have to! Do body builders end up suicidal?? No, they do not. If they did, it wouldn't be such a popular sport!! DUHHHH 

So then he went on to argue about people with bad knees and amputees and more, that if they can handle it, why can't *I* (notice the accusation here is that I can't handle it). Once again I told him, they don't have to manage hundreds of symptoms, or chronic fatigue, or juggle the many specialists. Do you know anyone with a bum knee who is suicidal?? Nope. Because they have ONE specialist for their condition... plus they get a knee replacement and whallah they are walking again, their whole body isn't affected. Neither are their organs, they don't have migraines too, or IBS, or skin pain, hair pain, eye pain, fingers hurt, feet hurt, hips, muscle pain, brain fog, sjogrens (and countless other overlapping diseases). I can't believe we are even having this discussion. 

Further more.... the proof of my daily productivity (eg, returning to school, horse therapy, living out here in the jungle boonies which is so much work, etc., etc., etc.) should be a witness that I've never let fibro get me down! Every day I look forward to the next day. So WTH, dude. This argument shouldn't even be happening. This shouldn't even be a topic! I hate how we fibro people constanty have to prove ourselves "good enough" especially to our closest ones.