Stay Strong and Carry On.

You CAN find the strength you need.

[just-carry-on]

Does anyone have a credit score as low as mine? Fucking medical bills are killing me. I’m probably back down to 430 but I’ve been lower.

[just-carry-on]

I just want one beautiful day without a migraine. A day to have sex, ride roller coasters, and enjoy the sun. Just ONE day.... please.

[just-carry-on]

I want another cheese sandwich bitches... I’ve had too much rum. 🤔 Or not enough?

[pinkhysteria]

seriously 😭 

[just-carry-on]

The writers don’t just decide what the characters will decide to do. The characters run around in our heads. They make choices we would never make. I get so angry at characters for doing things I would never do. Those bastards don’t like to follow our rules.

[fbdirectory]

[just-carry-on]

Fucking doctors. 😡

[feministism]

[just-carry-on]

I think I’m too chubby for this guy I like. He’s my same height and has no boobs or ass so he probably weighs 40 pounds less than I do! Ugh. It makes me nervous to date him.

Fibromyalgia makes it so hard to lose weight but way too fucking easy to gain, that son of a bitch!!

[just-carry-on]

Why does Shonda Rhimes always have to break my heart? An even better question- why do I keep watching Grey’s Anatomy when it makes me so sad??

[just-carry-on]

I’m drinking at 11 AM. Fucking deal with it because I don’t give a fuck.

[just-carry-on]

The guy I like lives two hours away. I had to cancel our first date because of fibromyalgia. I’m stuck at home watching Grey’s Anatomy, and all I want is for him to drive down, climb in bed with me and watch Netflix for 48 straight hours. I want him not to care that when I lay back with a cold pack on my neck and head, it gives me a double chin and makes me look ten years older. I want my dog to like him. I just don’t want to be alone. I thought this would be a great weekend, but chronic illness has a mind of its own and control of my body and things I’m able to do.

[just-carry-on]

I wasn’t able to go to the city for my family reunion. I was so excited to see everyone. I was going to go to the comedy club and drink beer with my big brother. People I never see, and I can’t go because of this goddamn fibromyalgia and these migraines.

I was doing so well all week and so excited to see these people. I even had a date scheduled that I had to cancel. That’s my life. The only reason I didn’t choose this weekend to kill myself is because I don’t want to leave my dog.

[just-carry-on]

So I’m talking to this guy I really like talking to and we’ll be going out for coffee soon, but he compliments me... a lot. What’s most important to me is honesty so I’m not sure I trust him. It could be down to my own issues. I don’t really know. Compliments have always made me a little uncomfortable so maybe it’s due to that.

[fbdirectory]

[frogget-dad-moved-deactivated20]

The most frustrating thing about chronic illness, and chronic pain is your body failing you

I dont even mean in a dramatic way just in a, my body doesn't quite cooperate with what I'm telling it to do. It's never quite right.

I drop things constantly, elbow stuff, kick things, trip, walk into stuff, bounce off doorframes

All because my body isn't doing quite what I want it to

It's infuriating

[just-carry-on]

This is so frustratingly true.

[teaboot]

Some rando: You should think about stopping your prescription

Me: My pills make me not want to die tho

They: You shouldn’t want to die, that’s not normal

Me: Yeah that’s why I’m taking my pills

[teaboot]

Again: But you aren’t the *real* you when you’re on your pills

Me: I’m the alive version of me

[teaboot]

An actual doctor, once: “Relying On A Chemical Crutch For A Hormonal Imbalance Denies The Fortitude Of The Human Soul”

Me: Cool so like I’m agnostic

[inner-muse]

They: “But you might be on pills the rest of your life!”

Me: “So?”

[illnessisnteasy]

Good! That means that I have a “rest of” my life to continue living!

Thanks to the pills.

[erinptah-admin]

Meanwhile, no person ever: “You should think about giving up your insulin/antiretrovirals/beta blockers/anti-rejection drugs/prosthetic legs/daily multivitamin, because using those your whole life is bad for some reason”

[teaboot]

Oh no, they do that too.

[living-deciduously]

I have a kidney transplant. A woman once told me she didn’t believe in organ transplants and that people should just die when they’re meant to. 

[teaboot]

Sounds like a great set-up for a murder

[teaboot]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[gehayi]

Speaking of the luck of the non-disabled…I once terrorized a Karen who was using me to teach her entitled kid that disabled people are Other and should not be treated with respect. I told her (truthfully) that until I was twenty-eight, I wasn’t visibly disabled. Then a defective chromosome that I hadn’t known about kicked in. So my luck ran out. But until then, I had been normal–just…like…her. 

The sheer terror on her face as the concept of “You mean I’ve just been lucky so far?” seeped into her brain was a thing of beauty.

[missjudge-me]

People who are fully healthy, fit and neurotypical seem to think they are that way because they’re doing something right that the rest of us haven’t thought of, and not just because they got lucky

[deeksspeaksandsneaks-deactivate]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[just-carry-on]

There are good Christians and bad Christians just like there are good atheists and bad atheists. I don’t know what the fuck I am but I want to be good.

[just-carry-on]

The worst part about fibromyalgia is I can’t tell my family how much it hurts. I don’t want my parents to worry and feel bad. I blame everything (not being able to go to family events or even work or walk my dog) on the migraines. But it’s not just my head. Everything hurts. I want it to stop.