Venting Upsets

The Bumps and Bruises of Life

December 10, 2010, by Kat Robertson 381 views | Be the first to comment!

Tonight I’m sort of wishing I weren’t often so hot headed. There aren’t a lot of things that can set me off… but the ones that can don’t usually take long to ruffle my feathers. I’m that person that loves to get along and keep peace, but once I’m fed up, there’s normally VERY little [...]

November, Day 26: I Need To Have My Head Examined #NaBloPoMo

November 26, 2010, by Kat Robertson 419 views | 2 comments

No, seriously. I’ve had headaches every day for at least the last 5-6 weeks. I was chalking it up to just an annoying symptom of Fibromyalgia because everyone knows I’ve been dealing with frequent headaches since I was a child. After watching Mystery Diagnosis the other day, I started thinking about this past summer when [...]

Confidence, Dreams, and Action

August 1, 2010, by Kat Robertson 436 views | 3 comments

After writing the article about my experience at the American Idol audition, I received one particular comment (among a bunch of super awesome comments, thank you very much! lol) that made me stop and think for a while. Here’s an excerpt from it: … you are a good singer and I admit that, but you [...]

Fibro Frustrations…

May 16, 2010, by Kat Robertson 748 views | 5 comments

For me, since I’ve always dealt with it… it’s not really debilitating until it’s EXCRUCIATING – a level of pain that most people would go to the E.R. for; because anything less than that is just “normal” for me. I’ve never known anything different. I don’t ask much of anyone. Even when I’m on the verge of tears because of how I’m feeling, rarely does anyone else – including my husband and children – even know anything is bothering me. There isn’t anything they can do… so the way I see it there is really no sense in me burdening them with having to be constantly aware that they are helpless, ya know?

The thing is — it’s getting worse. With time, there seems to be less mornings I wake up mobile and more nights I go to sleep with a headache that I’ve carried for at least the last 4 hours. Between the two, the symptoms that I’ve battled for so long – particularly the burning, unyielding pain and the nagging fatigue - are stronger and more frequent… and leave me feeling like my 27-year-old body is breaking.

Am I A Bad Friend? I Don’t Think So.

April 28, 2010, by Kat Robertson 679 views | 3 comments

When it comes to my friends, I often let things slide that I shouldn’t or I just kind of leave it alone when they say something to offend me, accepting it as just being who they are because it’s easy for me to assume that a friend wouldn’t ever intentionally make me feel that way [...]

Fibromyalgia and a Trip to the Park

April 23, 2010, by Kat Robertson 411 views | 8 comments

For the last few days, I’ve been plagued more than usual with symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome which is associated with Fibromyalgia. {You can find out more about the symptoms of Fibromyalgia by clicking here} I’ve dealt with a combination of the two for nearly 18 years and on most days, I can push through it and make myself get on with what needs to be done. This week hasn’t gone that way.

Despite having gone to bed much earlier than usual for the last week or so, I wake up feeling as though my body weighs a thousand pounds and no matter how much I try to persuade myself to get up and start the day, I don’t cooperate with me. It’s strange… the muscle/joint pains, constant headaches, chest pains, stomach pains, mental fuzziness, eyes blurring up all the time, and rarely ever feeling totally rested, I’ve learned to work through; feeling like I have the most extreme case of jetlag ever, I cannot work through. I just cannot get started… I lay there and just stare, wishing I could get some sort of jolt to jumpstart me.

Baby Mama Drama

April 5, 2010, by Kat Robertson 966 views | 24 comments

There are several things that spurred this blog post. I’m not one to let anyone trash my husband, especially when their claims are untrue and I tend to become a bit unsettled when I get online to read things written by my stepsons’ mother like: … to which I replied … Then, of course… like [...]