The last few days have seen me taking a renewed interest in cooking and house management.. it's been a time of feeling incredibly blesse...

    In a few days I will be turning 71. It's been a bumpy ride punctuated with bursts of hard work in raising 5 children punctuated with...

  Over the years of chronic illness, I have noticed that what used to be a reward for spending spoons and being proactive was in having a co...

  So over my last 25 years of chronic illness my level of energy is often very low. Heart failure, pulmonary hyertension and particularly fi...

So the trip last Wednesday to pick out a bed and walker and then to finish some errands that were necessary saw me with a major fibromyalgia...

We are in need of haircuts but it is such an ordeal getting out that I placed a query online in our local group on FB and a hairdresser who ...

  So recently I have had chest pain in angina and breathing problems coupled with what I thought was fatigue from an ongoing fibromyalgia fl...

As you know, I have been having problems with my heart and fibromyalgia. My blood pressure is barely controlled and I am constantly tired. W...

  So the specialist's receptionist just rang me with my appointment for Monday. It's midday.  He wants to do a stress test on the bi...

  Since turning 70 last May, I have noticed a rapid decline in our health. Heart issues are worsening, pains are hurting, fibromyalgia is ma...

  The Australian government allocates $53,000 pa in a care plan to try to keep aging people in  their own home if possible. It works out che...

Today was a busy day in that I was organising aged care help for Chris and I ... we arent coping all that well... lots of phone calls that h...

  Lately I have been finding it difficult to be joyful. My fibromyalgia doesn't get better, my knees are paining me, my angina's wor...

  Chris and I have both had glandular fever which lasted for months. He is being checked for fibromyalgia as he has every indication that he...

You may have noticed I haven't been posting much lately. Fibromyalgia, heart disease, high blood pressure and now boils have taken over ...

We visited the doctor today.  I have extremely high blood pressure which the doctor feels is due to my fibromyalgia pain.  It has flared sin...

As you know, we have just moved and along with a new home, comes some new things to add to the decor. Chris and I love this door mat . This ...

It's Wednesday morning here. I have cleaned my kitchen and taken meat out to thaw for dinner. I am going to cook pork chops with mashed ...

So we went to the doctor yesterday to get our results from blood tests taken a few days ago. My blood pressure was 140/90 which was slightly...

With heart failure and certain blood pressure tablets, my feet and legs puff up with fluid. I have pitting oedema which means that the inden...