Invisible Illness Awareness Week

 September is Chronic Pain Awareness Month. (Although I have to ask, how many people aren't aware that chronic pain exists?) I'll be posting something on them daily and trying to promote these posts. Given the events of the last few weeks, I thought it'd be time to revisit this photograph.  The next two days will focus on diseases I've been diagnosed with.

[Description: A brown-haired, blue-eyed woman on a beige background. She wears a purple shirt with a back and white-striped ribbon. Braces adorn her wrists, knees, and right ankle.]

Captiion:

• Do you suffer from Crhonic pain?
• Have you been told or do you feel you have fibromyalgia?
• Easy or unexplained bruising?
• IBS, Acid Reflux, or other Gastrointestinal issues?
• Do you have hypermobile joints or  are you double-jointed?
• Do you injure easily or have unexplained fractures or bruises?
• Fragile skin that tears easily or poor or slow wound healing?
• Do you injure easily? Unexplained dislocations or fractures?
• Problems with balance? Are you the clumsy one?
• Velvety smooth or stretchy skin?
• Are doctors stumped or clueless when they try to figure you out?
• Have you heard of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome?

And the answers for me  right now are: yes, yes, yes (although I still believe this is PLMD in most cases), yes, no, yes -- ankles, yes, not that I've noticed, and I think my primary care physician has no idea what's wrong with me exactly.