First -- I'm sorry you are having such a crappy time, Barb -- though much to be thankful for in your early Christmas gift and your chiropractor's understanding.
Second, I can't tolerate hot tubs. Don't know if it's related to the fibro or what. When I lived in Florida a hundred years ago, we had a beautiful jacuzzi, big enough for nine people with a view of a lighted backyard waterfall and banana trees and sailboats tethered less than fifty feet away. Beautiful -- and I would watch everyone enjoy the jacuzzi that made me sick and made my heart race like crazy. So...if you're over it, I'm kinda-sorta hoping for you that you got it out of your system and can enjoy that hot tub again in the future.
Barb, have you looked into medicaid for "health-sustaining" necessity? For awhile, I received it because my osteoporosis was severe enough to consider HRT "health sustaining" as well as a heart medication for MVP. And, because there's not a prescription-only medicaid, I got my doctor visits covered, too. Most of the chiropractors in this area take medicaid. It used to be, if you were working, they'd do a "spend down" so that you had incentive to work and still got the coverage you needed.
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I worked my ass off for two days baking and cooking, enjoying every minute of it and lasting just long enough to sit at the table and eat before collapsing. I did NOTHING Friday and dragged my sorry butt to my home group meeting last night, though I could easily have spent another day in my muumuu. Felt well enough to make some turkey stew and dumplings today with I think enough puff left to get me up and moving in the morning. It's another 400 mile week this week, so I'll be using that shiatzu massager I got last Christmas.
I can maintain a reasonable pace most weeks, but during the holidays, I willfully and knowingly overdo it. As my friend, Mike says, "I can do anything I want so long as I'm willing to pay the consequences." To know I was able to feed and fellowship with ten on Thursday was worth the consequences I paid. Now, if I could just get me a damned teleporter so I wouldn't have to keep zooming up and down the roads in my Subaru, I'd start Christmas shopping
Peace & Love,
Sugah