
Anyone that rides a motorcycle is aware that road rash may be lurking right around the next corner. Not the desired outcome of an enjoyable carefree ride with a stiff breeze in your face. One second you're upright just moving on down the road, your front tire hits a little antifreeze on the road surface -- BAM --road rash! It's like that with fibromyalgia. One second you're cruising through life having a great time and the next second you're down -- BAM -- fibromyalgia road rash! And you never even saw it coming. All that defensive living didn't amount to a hill of beans. What the heck is up with that??! You might as well go out and eat a donut and a big bowl of ice cream . . . and gain about 20 to 30 pounds in the process.

I keep thinking about how I could have avoided that fibro road rash, but I guess if I couldn't even see it coming and I thought I was being a defensive liver of life, what would I have been looking for anyway? I can tell you it certainly took me by surprise and I'm sure it did you too. So where are the rules of the fibro road? I have been up many a sleepless night working to put that puzzle together and looking on the Internet for the rules of the fibro road manual, but I haven't