Ice..Ice..Baby

So today was quite interesting.  Several days after the ice storm and it's still going on.  The mountain I was on today was coated in a crystal ice display.  It was gorgeous with the sun shining on it.  It amazes me how at the base of the mountain not one tree had ice on it and 1/4 of the way up bam ice everywhere.  I don't know how they are going to get that car down but it reminds me to never park near the base of a tree, because apparently the root ball will raise your car up...CRAZY!!!

I'm hurting today.  I need a formal diagnosis and a game plan besides live in agony and off of Advil and heating pads.  I was diagnosed with Fibro back in 1996 and I scoffed at the doctor, thinking he was just pulling something out of the air because they couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.  Back then you didn't hear much about fibro and IBS and I was told I had both.  Well the GI doctor re-diagnosed the IBS and I'm going to see the doctor Monday to figure out if the fibro is true or if it's RA, which I hope and pray it's not.  I am riddled with arthritis from head to toe.  I was in a car accident and the xrays showed arthritis from the top of my neck to the bottom of my spine.  I fell in the house and had my shoulder xrayed and it showed arthritis.  I was having problems with my foot and that xrays showed guess what...ding, ding ding...arthritis.   It's awful to be having this at my age.  I can trade stories with my 70 and 80 year old friends.  I am only 41 and that just seems wrong to me.  I hope that it doesn't take forever to get some help and relief.  I know others are so, so much worse off than me, but I have to live with this pain every day and that's very real for me.  I want to be able to run and play with the kids and not be in pain all of the time.  I want to know if day after day of pushing myself, because let's face it that's what I do, is taking a toll or not making a difference one way or another.

I don't personally need a name or a label, but if that's what it takes to explain to everyone that what I feel is real and extreme then label me, name it...but most of all just give me some relief...please!