What kind of pain issues do you have that flare up?

I have fibromyalgia, and if I do too much, I get a flare, even if I have seasonal allergies it flares up. Sometimes, it is so painful, even the water hitting me from the shower hurts. I also still get pain from doing too much that affects carrying things like boxes of books or water cases against the scar on my abdomen from the ulcer surgery I had. That scar is at least 4 inches long, belly button & up, and it is still healing. I still can see the spots the staples poked into my skin though I am told it has healed up quite well and the inside too (from an upper endoscopy). The doctors told me it could be awhile until I'm 100%, and I can't wear bikinis or anything that gets sunlight on the scar or it prevents the healing. Even though I am in shape, I don't know if I will wear a bikini again because of the scar, but other people have told me next summer, I should just own it, wear the bikinis or short shirts, and not worry about it. It is a survival scar, one I wish I didn't have, but I know I will have it for life, so I have to come to terms with it.

I ran out of Buspar yesterday but did OK. I had to call the pdoc's office and leave a message for him that I needed a refill. He is on vacation this week but luckily called it in to the pharmacy. I forgot that my old bottle had the prescription written for taking 1 10mg tablet twice a day, but my pdoc told me to go up to 2 tablets twice a day, so I ran out. Unfortunately, the pharmacy is closed today for the 4th of July, so hopefully, I will do all right without it another day.

My morning has been decent so far. I took a run that turned into a shower. It was sprinkling when I set out, and I thought it would be OK. I knew we were due to have rain today, but I didn't know if it would be light rain or hard (hadn't watched or looked at the weather much lately). The first part of my run was fine, but about 2 miles in (the far point from my house, of course), the sky just opened up, and it poured and poured. I was soaked when I got home. It's still raining, but not too hard now though it looks like the rain is not finished, and I'm still getting area flood advisories on my cell phone. It looks like it will rain until the afternoon, and tomorrow has an 80% chance of rain, so we'll get more then. We do get heavy rains here, often in the summer, but it hasn't rained much in forever. I'm glad hubby mowed the grass yesterday as the HOA makes it a huge point to give out notices for unmowed lawns, even if they are not that badly overgrown.

I took a bath and now am having coffee to warm up a bit. It is warm here, but I got a chill in the rain. My mood is OK so far. I need to work more today on cleaning my office, we'll see. I also have a DVD I took out from the library I need to watch soon because it is due in a couple of days. It's for the next read of our book club, "The Martian". I'm not much into science fiction; I don't think the librarian who runs the group is either, but one of the members wants a sci-fi book, so I'll be giving it a try. I love reading, but science fiction is one of my least favorite genres to read.

If the rain doesn't stop, I don't know if we will see fireworks for the 4th of July. In one area of our town, they set off the fireworks over the water in the Gulf of Mexico, but that area is a nightmare to leave. Last time we went, we were stuck in traffic 2 hours trying to leave. We used to watch another local town's fireworks from a park (my daughter liked it because there was a playground), but now the trees have grown up, and the view is not good there any more. Sometimes, we've gone to a local junior college to view from that town, and it was pretty good, a bit of traffic leaving, not too horrible. There are also some church parking lots close to where they set off the fireworks, but you have to get there super early for a parking spot. So we'll see.