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After the longest time ever (university summer holidays) it's term time and the Cambridge belly dancing sessions are back on. It's so nice to be back to dancing again. I always feel like I'm not breathing when I'm not dancing, and I was definitely getting to the point where I was aching to draw a breath again.
So last night I did dance until my back hurt and my knee also hurt. Today, despite the new pain-killers, my knee and pelvis still hurt. And of course I'm absolutely shattered and drained.
However I am not getting all the random stabby pains I would normally have from the fibromyalgia, so that is a definite improvement from the Pregabalin.
(I don't think I've mentioned the Pregabalin before here. I finally went to the doctor after being so exhausted I feared for my life, and he drew some blood, figured out I had a folate deficiency - so my red blood cells had ballooned to the point where they weren't really carrying oxygen any more, and also listened to me about the permanent fibro pain.
He then gave me three months of folate tablets and Pregabalin for the pain. It also makes me sleep like I've never slept before.
The folate tablets are working a miracle and I can feel myself slowly coming back to life. I've even done a little bit of gardening!)
This weekend we're off on a morris weekend in the campervan Tenterton folk festival. This will be the first time I've been to a festival since developing IBS, so it will be a serious achievement if it goes okay.
It's also the first time I've taken the mobility scooter to a morris festival in the van.
Last weekend I went to Peterborough Day of Dance in the mobility scooter - first time I'd introduced the morris folk to the idea of the scooter. It was such a relief! I actually enjoyed the day instead of finding it one long painful grinding slog from beginning to end.
So this weekend we're taking the scooter in the camper-van to do a two day festival. I'm going to try to be the Green Man for the side, and we'll see how that goes in a scooter. I'm nervous, but we'll see how it goes.
