I don’t know what to do or how to explain my illnesses anymore. My grandmother is having surgery and before I would have been the first to volunteer to go down to her and help her out but now I just don’t know how to anymore. My sister sent me a text yesterday and basically told me I was going down to help? They have no idea how badly I want to but no idea how badly I’m sick either. They are very much of the mindset that “if it’s not happening to them then it’s not a big deal”, at least when it comes to me. I have never been a lazy person, I’ve always been a fighter and I’ve always been a kind person and always been there for my family and yet they treat me like I’m being lazy and have never been there because I had to put up boundaries. She thinks because I had to quit working that I have nothing to do, no idea how much energy it takes from me to just do the simplicities like caring for my three kids and a household, hell just getting out of bed is half the battle. And the drive, I can’t drive far anymore, I can barely go 10 minutes up the road but no one understands that driving 2 hours in heavy traffic is not possible. My partner can’t just miss work to drive me down there, he’s the only one working and supporting us but that would just be turned around on me too, that I made that “choice”. Like I chose this life, I chose to give up my dreams and aspirations, I chose to not be able to accomplish simple tasks a lot of days, I chose constant pain and torment. There’s no explaining it to some, they just don’t get it or don’t want to, I just hate those conversations, my anxiety is through the roof over it. Not to mention the guilt, I feel such guilt not being able to help, I just don’t know what to say anymore. #Fibromyalgia #Arthritis #Anxiety #Colitis #KidneyDisease #OCD #IBS #sotired #cantwin