Who Am I?

Hello. My name is Amanda and I like to think of myself as the average mid-30s mom of four. My life is everything that I had ever dreamed of. I live in a home that I love, have an amazing loving and caring husband, and have four amazing children. However, a few years back I started living in severe pain. I would wake up in the middle of the paralyzed and unable to move where it felt as though someone was lighting every joint in my body on fire. This was the beginning of my so-called life with fibro. The pain that I experienced was quite intense and is something that kept me from being able to do many of the things that I enjoyed.

I knew that I still wanted to accomplish great things in life, even though my personal path to greatness was not like other people's. I knew that I wanted to find relief from the symptoms of my fibro without feeling drugged and being unable to function completely.  Doctors were very willing to put me on a whole host of pills and other medications that had terrible side effects and left me begging for something that would let me LIVE. You can't really live if every time that you turn around you are in pain or simply are not feeling well. My personal life with fibro is a journey that I hope that you will find inspiring. I want to live and most of all, I want to enjoy the years that I have left on our planet. We never know what tomorrow might bring and tomorrow is never promised to us, so really when living my fibro life, I have learned to live one day at a time to its fullest.

Today is January 5, 2019. I cannot for the life of me believe that I graduated from high school almost 19 years ago and that this is where I am in life. I made some poor choices, but have been working to rectify them by returning to school a year ago this month. My journey has not always been easy and is not something that most people can understand. In fact, my journey is just that...my journey. I want to share that journey with you and hope to inspire others who are living in pain and do not know where else to turn. You can do this. We can do this. Together we can learn to live.

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