Fibro defined

Last night, the following exchange occurred at Aikido, where I had been explaining my health problems to a teenaged girl who trains with us (she wanted to know why I left early last week when my knee went out).

Her: Wow. If I had all your health conditions, I would stay home and, I dunno, cry or something.
Me: Well, yeah, but if I did that, they would get worse.
My knees are doing better now, but the fibro achyness is now flaring up a bit again, probably because I haven’t been exercising. I need to find a place to swim laps and see if I can do that without hurting myself, since the elliptical machine is so hard on my knees.