The Life of His Princess

The passing of time is a funny thing, isn't it? There are things that feel like they were yesterday but happened years ago, and there are things that feel like they happened forever ago, and they happened in the last year. For instance, I've been in a relationship for just over 9 months now, yet it is hard to remember a time before we were dating. Yet there are words that have been said, things that have been insinuated to me over the years that my brain recalls like they happened to me only moments ago... Sara...                                                                                  ...You're too much woman...                   ...Maybe you should just be quiet...                 ...

For those of you who didn't already know this, Poiema and I recently made a trip to Mayo clinic. The whole story doesn't start in June though, it started last August when Poiema started getting pain in her hands that had been labeled as Carpal Tunnel. This pain increased and grew into massive headaches that left the doctors clueless as to what was going on. In February her general practitioner told her to go to Mayo Clinic Research Hospital in Minnesota. For her first visit, her sister Shekinah went up with her. On this visit she was ran through the gamut of tests as the doctors tried to figure out what was going on with her. Towards the end of her visit the spinal doctor did a test and told her that he suspected that she had Fibromyalgia. He referred her to the Mayo clinic Fibromyalgia and chronic pain clinic, but because they are really one of the only places in the U.S. that has a specialization in this area, the closest appointment was June 17-19. Poiema and I quickly dec...