Fibro & Me!

   I have spent a lot of time this week trying very hard to practice my Copic coloring skills and I think, I'm finally improving more in determining my light source and doing better with shading and highlighting.    I absolutely LOVE them and they are so much easier to color with and have such a wide array of colors.  As it turns out, for me, with Fibro, they are also much easier to color with, than Prismacolor pencils or even watercolor pencils, so I am very happy to have a really nice collection.   
    My favorite way to practice coloring is to join in lots of fun challenges, especially challenges where I can color with my Copics and one of my favorites is the Copic Colour Challenge!  This week's challenge is to use these three colors in your project -- W7, BG96 and C7.  I didn't have BG96 yet, so I used BG75, which is pretty close to the same color.

This is the card I am entering into the challenge! 

    I really have found that I like and use the Warm and Cool Gray colors a lot more and I had expected and I'm glad that I have a nice selection of each.  The really work well with blues and pinks too!  

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     That's it for today for me!  It's a short crafting day for me and not one of my best days.  My Fibro has been flaring a bit more often for the past month of two -- not good.   Today, I had a consult with a new MD, was set up by my PCP.  The goal is for all of us to work together towards a long term treatment plan to try and keep my pain level down and hopefully lesson some of my fatigue.   It looks like I will likely need to increase the dosage on one of my meds, but as long as I can manage the change and decrease my pain level again, I'll be a happy girl.   She was happy to hear that I was so involved in crafts and feels it's so important to have a hobby that I LOVE and can still do, despite the Fibro.   I was very impressed with her and thought it was wonderful to find another doctor who is so knowledgeable and has a lot of experience with Fibro patients.  The best part is that in her specialty, "Palliative Care", they actually make home visits, so she came to my home for the appointment.  The goal of Palliative Care is to make me feel as well, as possible, keep my pain managed, which in turns will give me a better quality of life, despite living with a chronic illness!She spent almost 2 hours here and I was very comfortable with her and she was very easy to talk to.   It'll be nice to have another doctor to work with in conjunction with my primary care doctor and my Chiropractor, all of whom I really like.  I know that I am very lucky, as compared to some Fibro patient's, who can't even find one ood doctor, who truly understands this illness, such a shame.  I still think there is a lot to learn and I still HOPE every day that there will be a cure for Fibromyalgia!

    I really think that this plan is going to help and with Summer and warm weather coming, I hope to feel better soon and hopefully for longer periods of time too.  
 I'm wiped out early today, but it's Friday, and I can sleep in tomorrow...YIPPEE!!!

   Bye for now...