Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)

by Talia Hibbert

With a skill borne of years of living in her highly temperamental body, she gritted her teeth and forced one foot in front of the other.

Most people had trouble accepting the fact that Chloe was ill. Fibromyalgia and chronic pain were invisible afflictions, so they were easy to dismiss.

so she would never feel Chloe’s bone-deep exhaustion, her agonizing headaches or the shooting pains in her joints, the fevers and confusion, the countless side effects that came from countless medications.

Her brain, typically fogged by pain or painkillers (or, on truly exciting days, both), was a cloudy, lackadaisical thing that could not be trusted, so she relied on neatly organized reminders.

Physical overload led to pain and a complete dearth of spoons, also known as mind-numbing exhaustion; which led to extra meds and

insomnia; which led to sleeping pills and too much brain fog; which led to, in a word, misery.

and one of the many curses of fibromyalgia was an inability to maintain homeostasis. If she got too hot, she’d simply pass out.