10 Goals When You Can't be Cured

Chronic pain is a never-ending, non friendly reminder that your body has issues. It's permanent (until there's a cure), and it's not going anywhere until someone hopefully finds a way to fix the way our brains talk to our nervous system.

What can you do when you can't be cured? What new goals can we set for ourselves that we can reach?

The How to Cope with Pain Blog suggests 10 Goals to Have When You Can't Be Cured:

1. Symptom control, as much as possible

2. quality of life, even with pain

3. dignified life and dignified treatment

4. take advantage of the challenge of chronic pain to reflect on the meaning of life

5. strive for inner acceptance

6. request and accept help from others

7. forgiveness of your own body for not healing;forgiveness of your medical team for not curing you; forgiveness of others' imperfect understanding of your pain

8. don't suffer alone

9. access the the least invasive treatment possible, but availability of more intensive treatment if needed

10. understand the meaning of the illness to you

I'm not perfect, and by the looks of it, even if we had a cure, I still wouldn't be. And it doesn't matter anymore to me. But we have to find new ways to live with chronic illness. By setting new goals, we have given ourselves an opportunity to change and adapt for the better, to give hope to a better day!

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I Finally Found My Blog, and I Can't Remember What I Wanted to Post

Ah, I finally figured out where my new blog was and what the name was! What a relief. It only took me a month!

Hi, my names Heather, and I've had fibro for about 10 years now, but the doctor tells me I probably had it as a child. So all those doctors appointments where my Dad took me for me hurting feet, produced nothing, until 10 years ago.

So this blog is my attempt to get some info about fibro and my life with fibro. My adventures. It's always rough to be me. I am a klutz with fibro, or a fibro who is a klutz, so whether I hurt or not, I can expect to do something stupid soon.

Its 6:40 in the morning, I can't sleep, and my hands are stiff. I can't think of something clever because a light fog has come over my brain right now. My husbands in bed right now.... asleep. I wish I was him. But I'm wide awake!!!

I like the quiet time, this is one of the times that I am actually able to do some of the things that take my mind off my fibro, like jewelry making, reading, or crafting. I love to craft. In fact, because I am on my husbands PC because my notebook died on me, I think I'm going to go bead for a while.

I'll be back, when I remember where this blog thing is and post some more.