Boy you are singing my wife's tune. Whenever I mention that she try to exercise more she often gives me this look of "yeah, easy for you to say". She knows she has to do more and she wants to. She walks a fine line because even during those times when she does feel the energy to exercise (basically only on the rare 3-4 pain level days) she has to be very careful not to overdo it. If she does overdo it her fibromyalgia will often be VERY bad the following day, whereby she can hardly move without serious pain all over the muscles in her body. The helplessness of watching someone you care deeply about going through these bouts of pain and to not have any ability to ease that pain is so so so frustrating. I think this whole pain syndrome of neuropathy, fibro, etc. should be named the Break-Your-Heart-disease, although I guess you could say the same about any debilitating illness with a high suffer-quotient. Here is a shot of my girlfriend from (I think) Feb 2019 at my mom's 97th birthday party in Connecticut. This was before the big downturn 2 months later, I don't know when she will ever make that trip again, lockdown or no lockdown. Best, Hank

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