diamond
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- Joined
- Sep 18, 2015
- Messages
- 1,548
- Reason
- DX FIBRO
- Diagnosis
- 01/2008
- Country
- UK
- State
- anywhere
Its well into Spring in the UK and the sunshine and longer days have brought mixed emotions this year.
Many of you will know that 9 years into fibro the last 18 months my health has been on a constant decline so that even my old fibro normal is a dim and distant memory.
Prior to this decline at least some of the time i could go for short walks...and do some light gardening and kept up doing my housework on my better days....all now impossible or very minimal.
My main hobby is gardening and now it is so limited and i can no longer use secateurs for trimming plants..my hands and arms are so painful that even pulling dead leaves off plants hurts...sounds crazy i know.
I used to spend so much time pottering about watering...pulling up weeds...planting up hanging baskets even with fibro in small managable bites...and now i have to give that up as well.
So my point is yes i appreciate the warm spring sunshine...looking out of the window...the first flowers ...the birds.....but its more than tinged with sadness that the last bits of me have kind of finally died after fighting for 9 years to keep these vital small bits of 'me' alive.
Any one else had to give up a much loved hobby?
Many of you will know that 9 years into fibro the last 18 months my health has been on a constant decline so that even my old fibro normal is a dim and distant memory.
Prior to this decline at least some of the time i could go for short walks...and do some light gardening and kept up doing my housework on my better days....all now impossible or very minimal.
My main hobby is gardening and now it is so limited and i can no longer use secateurs for trimming plants..my hands and arms are so painful that even pulling dead leaves off plants hurts...sounds crazy i know.
I used to spend so much time pottering about watering...pulling up weeds...planting up hanging baskets even with fibro in small managable bites...and now i have to give that up as well.
So my point is yes i appreciate the warm spring sunshine...looking out of the window...the first flowers ...the birds.....but its more than tinged with sadness that the last bits of me have kind of finally died after fighting for 9 years to keep these vital small bits of 'me' alive.
Any one else had to give up a much loved hobby?