~ My life with Fibromyalgia and Fatigue ~
I am 36 and for the past three years I have lived with a condition called Fibromyalgia and Chronic fatigue. I hate it with so much passion, I feel like it has robbed me of so much. I am learning to live with it, to focus on managing it rather than fight it! Fighting it only adds to the exhaustion. I used to be a fit & healthy woman who was always on the go. My life had order to it and I was always organised. The real changing point was when I found out I was expecting our fifth child back in 2014. Right from the beginning, this pregnancy was different. The sickness was horrendous and continued right up until the day our little girl came into the world. Around 27 weeks, I developed nasty little infection in the womb which went by the name 'chorioamnionitis' which caused sepsis in both myself and Anna. As a result of this, Anna was born via emergency section at 29 weeks. I spent 11 days in hospital. By the grace of God both recovered from this and as the months went by