IF and More IF, Fibromyalgia

If—

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Source: A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1943).

That is a great poem! I really love it and would be interested in people's interpretation of the line If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

I was also wondering..... If all the world's a stage could I get better lighting please?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, do the other trees laugh at it?

If con is the opposite of pro is congress the opposite of progress?

Why do nurses wake you up to give you sleeping pills?

Oh alright, I'll get serious again. I'll go all goofy another night and also talk about super powers like I mentioned in a recent post, read on if you missed it, because I would love to hear some other people's powers as well. I have the ability to eat or at least prepare great amounts of food in my sleep. Usually whats left in the morning is crumbs and empty containers and faint memories of putting large amounts of Hershey's syrup in a full bowl of Rice Krispies, or was it two bowls? I definitely recommend that one. Hmm I wonder if I ate all of the Rice Krispies last night?

Over the past week I have been brushing up on my reading about Fibromyalgia and after having this for 16 years I am still finding out new symptoms and developing new symptoms. When one of my sisters had to have chemotherapy and worried about her hair my own started falling out. I tried to blame it on a cheap hair product. At about the same time I developed awful rashes and itchy spells. I found out from a book that both of these symptoms are of fibro. About the hair the book said in a fibromyalgic the hair is defective. It falls out and is generally unhealthy as are the fingernails. I knew the burning on the bottom of my feet was the fibromyalgia, but it turns out that the odd patches of rashes and itching are also. The fibromyalgic , according Doctor R. Paul St Amand, has a reaction from their own sweat that produces severe itching and hives and "funny rashes"{yes, that is a doctor's quote, layman's terms}. Doctor St Amand co-wrote the book 'What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia', which I find very informative. Though I haven't achieved pain free status like some of this docs patients, I do try to follow his theories and I take Guaifenesin as often as I can to help with symptoms. I am a rare case in that I am allergic to many anti-histamines, but yet my body produces too many histamines. It is getting that time where my brain starts slowing down and wanting sleep. I would like to pick up the topic of fibro another time and hope the is someone out there interested or needing answers. I know of some helpful websites, I am just too tired to post them tonight. I had a long day - I started celebrating my birthday today.Yee Haw! It isn't til the 25th but when you move slow like I do you have to start early!

Yee Haw!