A little bit of venting this Monday morning. If you are not into health-related posts or venting in general, you probably can skip this post.
About twenty years ago, I went to a general practitioner with an earnest complaint about some generalized pain I was experiencing that I couldn’t explain. It was sometimes in my joints, and sometimes muscular. Sometimes both. I asked what it might be, acknowledging that it might have some of the source being in arthritis. I also suggested that because my mother had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, that it might be a factor in my increasing frequency of inexplicable pain.
She laughed out loud at my suggestion. And I mean, nothing held back at all.
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