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Barometric Pressure

Barometric Pressure

As the pressure drops
Like a stone from a tower
My health flops
By each minute and hour

I lock up
Slowing down
Drinking my death cup
I flounder and drown

Unable to function
Unable to comprehend
Unable to function
Unable to live

A robotic zombie
Floating along
Unstable and wonky
This is my song

A song of lostness
A song of worthlessness
A song of smallness
A song of nervousness

How long will this go on
This morbid journey
Until my symptoms are gone
And I am back in lifes tourney

Functioning normal
Thinking and talking
Not feeling abnormal
Functioning and walking

Living a normal life
A life of normality
No continuous strife
Just a life of vitality

Once again
I am patient and await
The barometric train
To steam forward reducing its weight

Arriving at my station
Which it always does
Creating a new period of gestation
And my symptoms fizz

I walk and wake from my stupor
As the train passes
Slowly reducing my stooper
Not slow and thick as molasses

But normal and bright
Clear headed
My symptoms in flight
Completely broken and shredded

Back in the living
Where life is good
Another season of thanksgiving
Living as I should

Barometric Pressure Nightmare

This is my latest book. It is personal. I suffer greatly when the barometric pressure drops.

When the atmospheric pressure drops, it influences my body. The swollen tissue presses against my joints, making them very painful and difficult to move. My arthritis in the ankle and right and left legs from knee and hip replacements and my eleven blood clots make it even worse when the barometric pressure changes. Blood flow is reduced due to constricted veins, which result in dizziness and confusion. When this happens, I become lethargic, not wanting to talk or socialize. This leads to me becoming grumpy and gruff.

Barometric Pressure Nightmare

Battle of Nerves vs Mental

Battle of Nerves vs Mental
 
What to do next
I wander about
I am perplexed
I want to shout
 
Leave me alone
Let me be
I want to moan
But then there is she
 
She is Smart Girl
She will not let me quit
She is a rare precious pearl
She has much grit
 
You are fine
You are curable
Quit your whine
You are endurable
 
Your lungs sing a song
Your heart is exceptionally good
Your muscles are strong
You are a forest of maple wood
 
You fall and almost fall
You have bouts and seasons
Where you hit a wall
Without any reasons
 
No one has diagnosed you
Telling you anything
No reason to worry and stew
Anxiety and depression sting
 
Worse than your illness
Quit being an awful bore
Live each day in its brilliance
Open the morning door and roar
 
Life is noble and grand
Life is pleasing and sweet
Life is unexplored land
Life is a delicious treat
 
Smart Girl wants to pursue
Conversion disorder and
Functional neurological disorder
Which is fine with me
 
The brain and nervous mechanisms
Do not efficiently communicate
Resulting in many schisms
In my neurological state
 
Somewhere between nerves and mental
Everyone knows I am crazy
But let us not be judgmental
We all can be a little hazy
 
Good news I believe
Continue the medical journey
Looking for reprieve
After six years of a debilitating tourney
 
What is a year or two more
Smart Girl motivates me
To continue the unfair war
And I agree