betsisanders: It wasn't so calm after the storm...

Just another weekend, just another ordinary Sunday … and it’s August 2016.

Didn’t I just keep the Christmas decors a couple of months ago? And now I am about to set up the Christmas trees again. I’ve been doing this for more than a couple of decades. I started when I was eighteen. {Hahaha … If you know how old I am then you know I’m lying about my age here. Oh well, this blog isn’t about my age so it really doesn’t matter if I deduct a couple more decades.}

Less than a month ago, I was in panic mode and of course you all know why, right? {How presumptive of me.} When someone I love is ill, that’s when I can’t be weak. It’s during those stressful, troubled times that I am strongest, fiercest and in fight-mode. What some of you do not know about was what happened after the 'storm', when there should have been calm. ...

I came from two reunions with balikbayan friends and surely I didn’t look frail, tired, nor did my eye bags show, not with five layers of BB cream, MAC foundation, loose high definition powder and bronzer, plastered heavily on my cheeks, plus three layers of multi-colored lipsticks, . How can you tell right? I have an invisible illness and so does Alvin.

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The pain started right about here …

Despite my pain cocktail, there was this

dagger-like pain that was way too unbearable.

A few days later. I fell down the front porch. I fell down two steps from the top of the porch. As I stepped down, my right knee folded. {This happens when my muscle relaxants are still in my system.} I used my left upper extremity to break the fall.I kept holding on to the handrail while I fell down two steps from the top of the marble steps. Luckily, I didn't break any bones nor slipped any discs. I just stretched my tendons to the max and was diagnosed with subscapularis tendinitis. Pain level with my current medications was 9.5!

Now add my other ailments (cervical spondylosis, degenerative disc disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger fingers, rotator cuff syndrome, osteoartritis, bursitis, then top it with fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndrome ... I'd say, I'm still alright... alive... soooo alive!