I thought today would be "Normal".

I woke up today feeling great. My rash and sensitivity was very mild, no aches, no nausea. I had so much energy. I even said to myself. "So this is what normal feels like?" I had forgotten how good it feels to feel "normal". I am still not on any medication, but I just thought that maybe my flare was passing on its own. I did the morning routine with the kids, and was even planning out my home school schedule for the kids next week. I have gotten behind on their schedule and I am really going to have to play catch up with them.

 I was just doing my thing when all of a sudden I started feeling it again. It is hard to explain. It is like I am feeling a fever coming on. I start to get achy, my skin got more red and sensitive, I started to feel really cold on the inside. I felt almost shaky, but not in a diabetic-low glucose kind of shaky, just nerves shaky. As I feel my joints ache I try to analyze what is going on so when I ever do get to a doctor, I can explain what it feels like. That is when I noticed that it isn't even my elbow joint that hurts, but the inside of my arm, at the elbow. Kind of like the place where they draw blood. But it  always happens with both joints at the same time. I was also having wrist pains that seemed to change location. I know some of you reading this will think that I am crazy, but I also know there are some that may say, "That sounds just like Me!" When I do get a diagnosis, I will have to update this post and label it with the correct "Invisible Diagnosis".  :-)

So what did I do....

I took some aspirin, pushed on for a few hours, and then went down for a nap when it was the littlest ones nap time. After a good nap I got up, felt better but not "normal" and carried on.

So now what...

Should I get upset that I didn't have the day that I had planned out, complain about how bad I felt, or... be thankful for the reminder of how "normal" feels and keep hope that in the near future I will have more "normal" days than sick days.

Wishing you all a normal day today as you read this and carry on with your I.D. (Invisible Diagnosis)

Bonnie
Writing from Tanzania, Africa

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