Rain Brings Rainbow and Pain

Gilbert K. Chesterton Quote 

When I was a little girl, I used to love waking up in the morning to the sound of rain pitter pattering across the roof.  Jumping in mud puddles, slipping across the grass, and spinning with my face up towards the sky as the rain drops fell: I loved to do all of this and more as soon as I could get outdoors.  Even as a college student I would go out and dance in the rain when everyone else huddled inside.

This is yet another thing that Fibromyalgia has changed for me.  I woke up this morning in so much pain I had to take pain medication to even get out of bed.  I’ve been careful not to overdue things too much this week, so it seemed a little odd.  Then I heard the pitter pattering on the roof and instead of joy, I simply knew.   Today is going to take twice as much energy to do simple things and very little will get done.  But then, as I lay in bed listening to the soothing sound, I remembered the feeling of dancing in the rain and jumping in the mud puddles. 

 

Pushing through the pain, I managed to get up out of bed, do a little yoga, and cuddle up with my favorite blanket and a cup of tea to read a bit.   Today has been a lovely quiet day in the midst of a normally chaotic life, I am glad I managed to leave bed so I could have such a delightful, though painful, day.

Thought for My Fibro Friends: Is it the rain or the barometric pressure that leads to the pain being so much worse?  I don’t know.  But I do think it would be awesome if someone could design a special suit that we could wear that would eliminate the effects.  I suspect it would end up being a pressure controlled bubble that we’d have to live in all the time though. Does the rain or changes in weather in general affect you also?

Today’s Inspiration a quote from Gilbert K. Chesterton.  “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”