fibromommy

I had to babysit today.  That’s not why I’m having a bad fibromyalgia day though…I am having a bad fibromyalgia day today because of a lot of factors. 

The weather has changed, and change in weather affects fibromyalgia a lot like it affects arthritis.  It’s not good.  When the weather gets warm and calm, the fibromyalgia storm calms a bit…but when we go from nice sunny weather to rainy/snowy weather, my fibromyalgia flares bad.  I hurt so bad today.

On top of that, I babysat a little boy who I am just a drop in babysitter for, but he had a bad case of diarrhea and spread it to my children and to the children I was babysitting.  I am honestly surprised that I don’t have diarrhea, but I do not…in fact, my IBS is acting up and I have the exact opposite of diarrhea.  My kids and the kids I babysit however have had several loose stools and two of them wear diapers so that makes for a lot of up and down to change diapers, and back and forth to the bathroom bending over to help the bigger kids with their bathroom duties.  all the bending and squatting down and standing up and getting back down and back up again, has taken it’s toll on my body.  I literally changed 12 poopy diapers the first day and the second day just about as many.  It’s taken it’s toll on me and I am in a lot of pain, and I HAVE to go to work at my aunt’s video store because she is out of town, and relying on me to help her.  I am hoping it’s busy so that the days go by faster. 

I am very thankful that the little boy didn’t give me the flu, or diarrhea actually, because when a person with fibromyalgia becomes ill, it isn’t like normal everyday healthy people.  When  a person who suffers from fibromyalgia gets ill, it causes more severe symptoms, the symptoms of fibro are flared and the symptoms of the illness are magnified.  More severe body pains, stronger pains, and stronger exhaustion.  As hard as it is for a “normal” person to function while sick, multiply that by ten and think about how you feel like you can’t possibly feel any worse, and then know that it causes more pain and exhaustion for an already sick person.

I have decided to take the initiative to tell the mother of the little boy that as long as he is ill he can’t come to my house because I am not supposed to be around sick people, or as much as possible I should avoid it.  I also try really hard not to have my children around it because I hate to see my kids suffer, and because them getting sick gets me sick.  I just can’t stand to see a child suffer, and I have a very hard time taking care of my sick children when I am already sick myself.  I felt so bad to have to tell her this because I love that little boy and he really is a good kid to babysit.  She also is a very nice person, and I felt bad having to tell her that I can’t watch her kid if he has diarrhea but I felt it was necessary for not only the health of my kids, but for my fibromyalgia as well.

I am in a flare and I think it is a combination of the extra working/babysitting, weather and now, I am getting ready to go see my sister with my kids and my mother.  It should be fun, but getting ready for it is stressful…add extra stress to everything else that is going on  and I was just asking for a flare.  I know it’s my fault, but I did what I thought I had to do…and now I am paying for it.

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