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		<description>...I don't understand how you can do this and not that.  Don't people realize that just because you do something does not mean that you felt...</description>
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			<title>Comment by dkgraf3</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That's one of my biggest pet peeves. Hubby's finally starting to get it, but others don't.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:36:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by kindercrazed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Probably most people don't really truly get it.  That's probably part of what makes this such a lonely disease. 
  
 I'd make you a nice cup of tea if I could and sit on the porch with you not judging... 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:15:03 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by peppershaker</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just answer,, "... me either, I don't get it."]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:17:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by MelFM</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hear you honey!!!!!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:18:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by BasketMoon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanks, kinder....I <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> your porch is cooler than mine.  (wink) 
  
 Thanks, all.  Just on a rampage and figured at least ya'll would understand the frustration cause Bear sure doesn't get it.   
  
 Gentle huggles... 
 Basket]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:24:49 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by rabbitsruleagain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Oh, basket, 
 Air away, kiddo...we'll listen, and certainly understand!!! 
  
 People are often insensitive...it makes this fibromonster all the more frustrating, I agree....we could use any one of several replies, I guess: 
  
 1. FU , pal! 
 2. I'll get to it, or maybe I won't, sorry! 
 3. Maybe YOU coul...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:48:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by WindTalker</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[THIS I THINK IS THE AGE OLD FIBRO FRUSTRATION.  NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HOW HARD WE MUST PUSH OURSELVES TO DO EVEN THE SIMPLEST OF TASKS.  THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THILL THEY WALK IN OUR SHOES.  IT IS A VERY FRUSTRATING THING THAT WE MUST CONTINUALLY JUSTIFY EVERYTHING WE DO AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DON'...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:57:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by klik215</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rabbit, I like your list... will think about using some of that next time, probably more than likely, the first one!  ;)]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:00:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by FoggyMama</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hear what you're saying Basket. My foster sister said things like that while I spent a couple of weeks with her. I did feel a little better because I could get outside in the sunshine and fresh air but that didn't cure me. I did do a few things that I haven't been able to do in a long time. But no...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:14:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by dideede</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[IF MY ARM WAS HANGING OFF,, F...K WED GET SOME UNDERSTANDING THEN!! I WISH UT WAS..SWAP ANYTHING RIGHT NOW!! 
  
 IGNORANCE OF THIS DISEASE ALMOST FINISHES ME OFF!! 
  
 GENTLE HUGGS BASKET.X]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:15:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by angelmeditations</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I couldn't agree with you more.  Most of what I do is because I HAVE to.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:16:13 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by donnamh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You are sooo right.  I'm sick of hearing that too.  OR  "you seemed ok yesterday, why are you soo sick today?".  DUH!!! Maybe I'm sick bc I did too much 'for me' yesterday. OR  how about this one.  "yeah, I'm tired too"    only someone that has FMS or lives with someone with FMS truley gets it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:48:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by greatgranny</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[the people that live with you dont always understand..gg]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:54:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by TeylaBeckett</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[my friend kept looking at me weird when I said I couldn't go out because I was too tired and ached from head to toe.  he read a little bit about fibro, but he keeps insisting that there's a cure (I told him there's not)...but he thinks there's some way to 'beat' this.  idiot..never listens to me.   ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:02:25 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by donnamh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GG  you're right, I stand corrected.  My ex, didn't "get it".  He not only didn't understand what was happening to me, he got angry bc I could barely function. Instead of helping me more, he did less.   Notice I said "ex". yup divorced the man who didn't get it. My kids are awesome though.  They "ge...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:22:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by BuxomBrunette</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think this is one of my biggest issues.  I spent better than an hour last night tryig to convince my husband he shouldn't assume what I will or won't do.  He still doesn't get that I don't want him to wipe my ass for me as well as pay the bills,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:22:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by PeaceN2You</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ya know, if we had cancer, they'd understand that we had "good days" and "not so good days." It's all about believing, or not believing. I think that's what pisses us all off - we know that the people who say that are really expressing their disbelief that we're really sick. 
  
 My husband didn't alw...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:23:25 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by LindaF</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In my experience, it's very very hard if not impossible for people to understand this very strange thing about fibro. It's surreal enough for us right? I mean, it doesn't always makes sense. One day we can do something and were fine. We can do the same thing a week later and get into a huge flare up...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by ExDiva</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My mother is the one who makes me the MOST crazy.  And mother's make daughter's crazy anyway.  I wrote her an email this morning with a new strategy - asking ahead of time for what I might need from her and explaining why.  I will let you know how it works.  The full email is in my journal for today...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by WhiteDolphin</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Most of it seems to come down to we look normal. We don't look sick.  I think we should dress sloppy and wear no make-up and not fix our hair.. If we look like crap, then maybe people would see that we FEEL like crap too!  
  
 I <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Faith')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Hope">hope</a> this illness is made more public!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:26:54 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by rabbitsruleagain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Here's how I got around some of that judging/questioning thing---I kind of stopped some of it before it started, I guess... 
  
 When I was first DXed...I wrote a letter to my friends and family. I explained FM and sent them articles, links to articles, etc. I said please don't feel sorry for me, just...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:37:25 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by toriv</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I like rabbits list!Monkeying around I found this : 
    "I believe our Heavenly Father invented the monkey because he was disappointed in man." 
 By Mark Twain]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by rabbitsruleagain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[good one, Tori!! love Mark Twain!! hehehehehe]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:18:47 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by DoCo</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LOVE THE LIST RABBIT. 
  
 I HAVE LOST ALOT OF NON-UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE SINCE MY DX. THERE ARE A FEW I CAN STILL TOLERATE. ONLY BECAUSE I LOVE THEM DEARLY. 
  
 BUT LIKE RABBIT...IF IT WASNT FOR LYNDY, WELL I DONT KNWO WHAT I'D DO. HE TAKE SUCH GOOD CARE OF ME AND IS MY GREATEST CHEERLEADER.  
  
 AS FOR ...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:32:20 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Bootsie</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree totally with you, it is hard to feel like people are judging me by what I do at times and think that they think I am not in pain and need to be working. Just because I can do something one time doesn't mean I could do it tomorrow or won't suffer tomorrow for doing it. Some times I have to pu...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by rabbitsruleagain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[BOOTSIE!! YOU just said.... 
  
 "I guess we just have to look inside ourselves and come to peace within and not worry what other people think. " 
  
 AMEN to that girlfriend.!!!...you summed it up way better than my long rant...thanks, kiddo!!! 
  
 Hugs, wabbit]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:37:17 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by osupoke</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well said, Wabbit!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:52:44 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by BasketMoon</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thank you all for your responses.  I do what I can when I can and to hell with everyone else.  They aren't the one's that have to live with the pain.   
  
 I knew you all would understand.  Thanks for the list of responses, Rabbit.....the top one is my favorite.  lol 
  
 Gentle huggles....]]></description>
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			<title>Comment by donnamh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey Rabbit  does your husband have a twin???????  My ex did just the opposite. He sorta blamed me for getting sick. (I got Lyme disease. and if that wasn't bad enough,  then got FMS). He couldn't handle "it" and out of bitterness, actually did less. We are in our final stages of <a href="http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Divorce" onclick="treatmentHotLink('http://dailystrength.org/treatments/Divorce')" class="treatmentlink" title="Learn more about Divorce">divorce</a> as I speak. ...]]></description>
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			<title>Comment by rabbitsruleagain</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So sorry, girls, my guy is an only child!!  (wabbit hears collective world-wide groan!)  
  
 My girlfriends are always asking if they can clone him and "are YOU SURE he doesn't have a long-lost brother?...nope, I do believe the big guy is a ..."one in a million!"...:>) 
  
 I know...lucky, lucky wabbit!!!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:36:52 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by valentine308</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[rabbit 
 Is your husband from NJ ? he sounds a lot like mine !! no dishes for me and heaven help anyone who gives me a hard time LOL .my kids are helpful too my oldest son is the best ,he all ways asks if I need anything ( he is a cancer kid sick at 9 )he is very  sensitive and loveing.  
 hugs]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:51:29 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by debbied1009</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I hear what you are saying Basket.  Rabbit I gotta say, you are one very lucky woman.  Maybe your hubby could give classes on compassion.  I could tie my hubby up and drag him to the class, LOL.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:05:23 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by donnamh</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[why can't we just clone him ladies.   hey they clone sheep and stuff.  why not perfect husbands????    Have a good wknd. everyone   ((((hugs))))   Donna]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:19:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by homebod</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can tell my mom about how I have been unable to walk for days, or how I've had a migraine for 9 days staight, and she won't say anything.  But if I tell her I vacuumed the house---she says "How did you do THAT with fibro?  I thought you couldn't move."  Duh.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:32 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Jennijem</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well when I first came down with I was married and man did he not get it no matter how bad off I was. In fact his constant nagging and complaining only added to the stress in my life. 
 Well gals he is long gone now and I am with a man who actually took the time to look fibro up on the internet and l...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:27:30 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by fibrofab</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[who you tellin sister!!!!!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:39:33 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by Jennijem</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We are always going to come across people through out our lives who are close minded and just not willing to see or understand. They live in a world that is black and white and there is no room to them for gray. 
 In other words if they can't see it, it just does not exsist and we must be faking. The...]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:43:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Comment by ffwife</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I get it every day and It hurts so bad whenit comes from your own family. I don't have money coming out my ears and I am fighting for the SSI so I just have to push myself to the limit and then drop for days after. My feet hurt my legs hurt and Iam so tired I have the worst time to move.I push and p...]]></description>
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