Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
The You Capture theme over at I Should Be Folding Laundry is work this week. Work means something different to each person. In science, work = force * distance. For Chip, work is being an electrical engineer.
For my children, work= play


with the occasional school work or practice thrown in for good measure.




My work as a stay at home mom & wife consists of being a personal chauffeur,

organizer, coach, teacher, speech therapist, tour guide, chef,

circus performer, artist, birthday party planner,

hairdresser, nurse, personal shopper,

day planner, personal banker, valet, seamstress, archivist, genealogist, laundry service,


dictionary, proofreader, encyclopedia of all knowledge, and spiritual guide.

I love my job!

On a slightly different definition of work...

I have some kind of undiagnosed (although not for lack of trying!) rheumatological disorder, which very simply put, triggers stiffness and pain when I've been in one position for too long, such as overnight. Whatever it is also occasionally makes my eyes dry out so much that I need to use eye drops to open them. Once I get moving, I am fine, but that initial motion to get up is excruciating sometimes. Sometimes the hardest work I do each day is simply getting myself out of bed.

(photo staged with long shutter speed and a timer)

I decided to blog briefly about my random problems, not for sympathy or pity, but to encourage others with bizarre health issues and let you know you are not alone.