Chronic Babe?

I have found a wonderful bog which is written by a young woman who is coping with a collection of chronic conditions. She calls her followers Chronic Babes. What a great name! I think maybe I am too old to be called a Babe but I really like the idea. On her blog she shares ideas for coping with a chronic disease and there are lots of helpful tips. I will be going back to this when I have some more time and putting into practice some of the ideas she shares. Her latest list is 100 ways to answer the question - How are you? It is a problem I often have. As you can imagine I get asked this often, probably every day. And knowing me I expect you can guess I like to be honest but that isn't what people necessarily want to hear and they certainly don't want a great long catalogue of all my ills! So this list is helpful. Here are some of her suggestions 

• Do you want the short or the long version! 
• I'm AWAP(as well as possible)
• I'll let you know when I figure it out! 
• Ready for tomorrow
• I'm taking it easy 
• Bunch of grunts, gurgles, and other random noises) pssh, fft, mmhm,
• Give me a chocolate bar and I’ll be fantastic
• Somewhere between blah and mehUnder construction 
• As happy as a clam, a clam that’s
  been cracked open, doused in lemon
  and shot down the gullet of some
  tourist in a tacky Hawaiian shirt 
• I’m feeling really grateful for this beautiful day. 
• I don’t feel that great, but my hair looks awesome

So if you meet me and ask me how I am you might get a rather random answer!  

If you ask me today I will be answering - I'm feeling grateful for this beautiful day! 

I am glad it's not raining and  I am off to pilates with my new ankle and hand supports which hopefully will help me to do more during the session this week. I am looking forward to seeing the GP tomorrow and starting the process of getting sorted and particularly of finding out what painkillers I can use that won't cause more damage to my kidneys.