Are you Okay?

I hope you had a great day or a better-than-okay day. I actually had a rough day with health issues. Since Monday, when I had a great deal of Fibromyalgia treatment, my body has reacted in excruciating muscle spasms so it's not fun. I had those, knife-stabbing kind of pain that you just felt it would slice through your whole body, but doesn't. It feels like a knife is jabbing in and out of each part of your body sporatically. So much fun.

The chiropractor I have has helped a lot because all that he specializes in, yet the most painful treatments I have had are the electric stimulation in the ear which sends signals to the brain and different parts of my body. It hurts a lot yet in the long run it will help because it is retraining my brain that my body is not supposed to be in all this pain. I was doing real good on Monday, but then it seems everytime I take 2 steps forward, I end up taking 3 steps backwards (healthwise). so frusterating. Anyway...I made it through another day.


The good thing about having all these health issues, is that I have an opportunity to understand people who are hurting even more. I used to think that when I asked people how they were doing, and they responded by: "I am okay," I never thought anything of it.

Here is a Teensy Tidbit: When someone says he or she is okay especially if they are chronically ill, it actually means that he or she is probably having a tough time and he or she was actually able to get up in the morning, took awhile to get ready, and had a hard time getting to wherever you saw them, due to pain. They are just OKAY, they barely made it to their destination and are hanging on by a thread to not run home and jump back in bed, just to pull the covers over their head.

So if someone replies to you about how they are doing, and they just say they are okay, you may want to ask them a deeper question to understand them more of what they are going through or ask him or her if he or she needs to talk. A person is not usually doing well, when they say: "I am okay." Nine times out of ten, they really need a hug or someone to talk to.

If this is a bit much, then maybe you should ask another question instead of: "how are you doing?"