Hmmmm..........
yeahhh........
wellllllll........ I guess let's get the worst thing about me said first.
I'm a terrible writer and speller so if you are a grammar nut stop reading NOW because I WILL drive you insane.
The good things about me, to me, are:
- I do not lie.
- I do not believe in Yes and No answers.
Now that that is out of the way I can tell you why I'm here. It's all my son's @ecoinstant fault. He thinks I'm an interesting person and wants me to share my story about how it is to live life all of a sudden with fibromyalgia.
Everything changed 8 years ago. I suddenly got very sick and could not always make it into work which was very unlike me. Long story short, I lost my job, people thought I was lazy, crazy and just plain making things up.
5 years later I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia which would lead a person to think life would get better...... but no. loll
Insert 2 years of trying all the "Wonder" Fibro drugs that just made me sicker and a tad insane........
Through all this, I have used gaming, Rift, World of Warcraft, Hearthstone to keep my mind active and keep boredom at bay when your body is so tired the thought of moving makes you want to cry and sometimes you do cry.
Okay, moving on to happier things!!!
My plan over the next weeks is to set up a twitch stream. I will be taking a brand new Hearthstone account and showing people how to play it.
The game has saved my sanity more times than I care to count! It's a game you can get very in-depth with or on very bad brain dead days you can just look at all your cards and see if you can make up a new interesting deck to play. You can play it for 2 hours or 5 minutes. The best part is if you have to stop it doesn't matter! All WIN! Win! in my world.
To say this is all going to be easy for me I would be telling a lie but I DO think this will be a good thing in the end.
I hope to make this journey interesting and fun. We all need to feel needed in this world we live in and I think I found something that I will be able to do and enjoy with the limits that life has now placed on me.
Thank You for taking the time to get to know me!
Snook
Hey @snook, welcome to Steemit!
Thank You!!
Wow ! Welcome buddy ! KEep blooging ! Hope to see more from you . if you want some health stuffs then you can follow me for more !
Happy Blockchain Bday Snook!
QQQQ!!!!!! <--- (According to Facebook, this is a legit translation for what I want to say. 😉)
May you feel joy and pride in all you've done since joining. You're phenomenally interesting and have brought the light of fun and hope in hard times to so many here.
🍷 Cheers to you for these years past and for many more to come! 💜💕
PS - Yeah, your first post anniversary is tomorrow but your join date and the cake was ready today. 😁😁
Love You so much!!!!!!!!!
Thank You for being You!!
Welcome, Snook. You really are an interesting person. Have fun on Steemit and good luck with Twitch
Thank You! and I'm hoping to have a lot of fun :D
Don't worry about grammar and keep sharing.
Your advice has made me just write and not worry. For that I owe you My deepest Thanks!
I love your story! You did a wonderful job, and I did not notice any typos :D. I love this game, like you mentioned, it can be played for hours, or for just a few minutes. I like it because I can pick the game up at any time, and start a new hand, or I can get my housework done in between rounds. I can't wait to see what you do with this blog!!!
Happy Gaming- Sim Girl
Thanks, @simgirl and thank goodness I'm sure I will be asking your advice in the coming weeks! loll
Sounds familiar, I am hoping my blog will help @snook start playing Sims 4 :D
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Thank you!
I'm happy you made it!
Steemit is kind of crazy sometimes, there are robots and antics and spammers, but I have also found really good and real people expressing their interests and humanity.
And this way you can keep convincing me to play hearthstone ;p
You have a beautiful banner by the way.
Your mama! 😘 I´m sure there are some good remedies for her affliction in Colombia.
Thank you!!! it will be an intersting journey that is for sure lolll.
Upvoted and followed. Hello @snook welcome to steemit. I am also a gamer and I know playing games can make our problems disappear just for a moment. Please also follow me @strab. Thank you, have a nice day.
Thank you, @strab
and yes they can. It's amazing to me how much good can come out of playing a game!
Nice to meet you, @snook! Welcome to the Steemit Community, wish you good luck and a good start, ive send you a small tip and followed you, hope you have an amazing day! :)
Thank you so much @vlone
My day has been very interesting, to say the least.
Thank you also for the tip!
Welcome , i enjoyed your post. i have upvoted and followed you and your @ecoinstant (son) Take care and post on
Thank You, @sumjags09 for the kind words!
Welcome to the blockchain (Steemit)! I have very little time these days for gaming, but I definitely love a good game. I played EQ and then WoW for years and years. Then I got hooked on Life is Feudal. For that game alone, I have almost 3K played hours. That's a lot of learning and work I did not get done. haha
There are a ton of other webpages to help you with Steemit. Here are some of the best for beginners:
https://steemd.com/ (This site is used to keep track of your voting power and other stats. You do not want to run out of voting power, and you only get so much per day. I keep my voting power around 80% for example.)
https://steem.makerwannabe.com/ (This site will tell you who follows you, who unfollows you, and who mutes you. It is great for meeting new people too. I regularly check it to see who has followed me to see if I should follow them back.)
https://steemit.chat/ (This site is the official chat webpage for Steemit. There are Discord channels too, but I usually stick to the official site. Come in to network and meet new friends. You can directly message people there too, so it makes it easier to communicate with your closest friends.)
Oh yeah, there are a lot of bots on here. If you see a cookie cutter reply, especially to your intro post, it is almost certainly a bot. Check the account's reputation. If it is low, I would recommend just ignoring them. Everything is public on Steemit, so you can go look at an account's comments and replies. Are they all the same? It's a bot.
Adding photos to your account as a new Steemian may be confusing at first too. The easiest way it to click to "Submit a Story." Once in there, use the built in Steemit tool to upload an image from your computer. Below the posting window, you will see "Insert images by dragging & dropping, pasting from the clipboard, or by selecting them." Click on the blue text. Once the image is uploaded, you can copy and paste the link into your account settings.
Verifying your identity is very important because it will get you more support and people will trust you more. The best way to verify is to link back to your Steemit account by using another public social media account. For example, I posted my Steemit articles from here through my Twitter account. Another person posted their Steemit information on their Facebook account. Some people will even post a video of themselves writing out their account information since that cannot be Photoshopped. The more famous a person is or the more valuable their content is, the more important it is that they verify. If a new account falls within those two categories and fails to verify, it may get blacklisted.
Again, welcome, and I've followed you! If you have any questions about getting started, look me up on the chat site.
P.S. Have you heard of "golden tea" or turmeric balls? Turmeric might help you a ton, for it stops and heals inflammation in our bodies. Perhaps it would help to take some of your pain and discomfort away if you ate it regularly as I do. It's just a thought to possibly help. :)
Thank You so much for all this information!!! That was very kind of you to spend the time. I promise I will read it over 20 more times so I understand it all :D
and No, I ahve not heard about Turmeric!! I will send my Husband to the store to pick some up and see how it goes!!
Definitely add it to your diet. Here is the recipe for the turmeric balls. I eat one a day:
Ingredients:
1/3 cup organic, ground turmeric
big pinch of ground black peppercorn (increases the bioavailability of curcumin up to 150%)
3 tbsp raw, organic honey
1 tbsp Olive oil
Instructions how to make it:
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl to make a paste.
Take pinches of the turmeric paste and roll them into small balls.
Place in freezer for about 1 hour and remove.
Store in a glass container and keep it in your refrigerator or freezer.
Eat 1-3 pieces per day depending on how big you make them and how badly you need the medicinal results.
P.S. Rice has arsenic in it, and turmeric removes arsenic from our bodies. Any wonder why curry is used with rice so much overseas? ;-)
WOW! thank you for the recipe. I already clipped it and added the ingredients to the shopping list. I will let you know how it goes!!
One question on the voting power advice. I went to that link but could not find what I was looking for.....I saw lot's of numbers and stuff loll but none of it made any sence to me. Would you be able to explain a bit further as it sounds very important and I DO want to learn.
https://steemd.com/@finnian
On that page you'll see in the top left a blue bar. That's my voting power. I try to keep that above 80% from day to day. Sometimes I'll give out more than that, but I want to keep my power at or near 100% after a day's wait (as it recovers).
Thank You!!! I did not put the @snook after I clicked on the link. :D
Now I see my page and all the info.
Once again Thank you for your time!!!
You're very welcome! :) Let me know if you have any other questions. I'll gladly help.
Hi there @snook, welcome to Steemit! Sad to hear about the fibromyalgia. A friend of mine has been having problems with this aswell and the only thing she found works a bit was to make sure she got enough exercise. Training her musscles a bit and doing yoga helped her lessen the frequency I think.
Anyway, glad to see gaming has helped keep you occupied! I've played WoW for a long time and I'm sure I'll return one day. Tried Hearthstone, but I just can't stick with it. It's so frustrating sometimes! I'm mainly playing Guild Wars 2 now :-)
yes, I take a walk every night even when I don't want to! I also live in a very old 2 story house with steep stairs and the bathroom on the top floor loll so I get lot's of exercise that way too!!
Yes!! Hearthstone can get very frustrating. I try and play it with a "light" attitude but I find myself swearing like a sailor more then I ever have! loll
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Thank you for the information and the warm "hello"!!!
I love this game. I'm still playing Dragon Priest :D maybe we can have duel one day :)
That would be a lot of fun!! :D I'm playing Rogue right now.
Hi snook
Good to read your story - I expect you sometimes get fed up with people offering possible solutions but I wondered if you had heard about this (below) which relates to your condition and my recent blog that you kindly resteemed:
(it obviously needs subtitles to be switched on)
Maybe not for you but thought I would put it out there :)
Cheers
Leon
OMgosh!! THANK YOU for this!! I will look into it more. I bookmarked the YouTube videos. When I was reading your post I saw you said it helps with immune systems and wanted to go back and read your post again so I Thank You for ALL this information and your time!!
welcome to join steemit ...
nice to meet you. I hope this community we can exchange information. Do not forget Follow and View my blog. I will also do the same for you.
Hi @snook
I really love your well informed introduction.
Thanks for telling us about yourself.
Steemit is a wonderful social media community, at first, growing up your steemit account may be difficult but don't give up
I’m Kingsley, I’m a graphic designer and a writer.
You're very welcome to steemit. I wish you success. I hope you'll enjoy steemit as time goes on. I'll like to follow you so I can share ideas with you here on steemit. I'm now following you. Feel free to follow me back if you want.
@kingsley-clement
Thank you so much!!
Nice to see your post and its been great getting to know you @kingmotan
Thanks for this nice post @kingmotan I'm looking forward to Your next post
Welcome to steem! ;)