Temporary Treatments, Perpetual Health

After the last couple of posts, I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking about how all of the treatments for fibromyalgia are “temporary.”

What I do or experience today has costs or benefits today. This is true for the drugs I take, the exercise I get, the stress I experience or avoid, the chemicals I am exposed to or elude, the massage or physical therapy I receive, the sleep I get or fail to get, and the food I eat.

At first, this seemed really depressing. I need to “treat” my fibromyalgia every day in order to have any benefit. The treatments are all temporary, and the relief is temporary.

But then I started to think about the nature of my life.

Eating is temporary. There is no “cure” for hunger. I eat today, and tomorrow I am hungry again. I am just as hungry & maybe more so.

Drinking is temporary. Even if I swallow all of the water I can possibly ingest, it wouldn't be many days before I would die of thirst if I don’t drink again.

Sleeping is temporary. There is no way to avoid that either. I sleep tonight and by the end of tomorrow, I need to sleep again.

Breathing is even more temporary. How long can I go without breathing? I can’t even go one hour without breathing.

So in a way, eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing are all “temporary treatments" for keeping us alive. There is no "permanent cure” for sustaining our lives.

If you keep on breathing every minute, the air in your lungs is temporary, but it is also continuous. Because you breathe perpetually, you will never asphyxiate.

If you keep on treating your fibromyalgia every day, your health will also be perpetual.

Treating our fibromyalgia can become as habitual as anything else we regularly do to keep ourselves healthy and alive. Our regimen will be more extensive and require greater discipline than those whom we think of as “normal,” but we can attain an acceptable quality of life.

Rejoice in the day. Be happy that there are things you can choice to do that will make your pain subside. If you live in the present and make positive choices now, your future is bright.