The Difficulty of Taking Care of Self
One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with living with a chronic illness is taking care of myself and making sure I get what I need. Like some other people I’ve met I tend to put the needs of others before myself. Unfortunately when I do that I end up with a flare-up with my fibromyalgia resulting in the inability to take care of myself or do for others.
It’s a reality I deal with and this week I tried to take care of business before going off to SOBCon, a conference featuring bloggers from all over the U.S. I thought I was taking care of myself but the truth was I wasn’t listening to my body when it started aching more, I just pushed harder. The result was a flare-up of the fibromyalgia that I was unprepared for and I had to cancel going to Chicago for the event.Â
It was a hard decision to make and while I feel a bit better today, flying to Chicago would have been difficult at best and my worry was that I would have spent Saturday in bed rather than down at the conference listening to all the wonderful speakers (although I could have done like Ellen DeGeneres did last week and have my bed down in the conference room
).   It wasn’t easy to accept not going to Chicago. I hate when I can’t do something I had planned. The reality in life is that we don’t always get to do what we had planned, chronic illness or not.


