There can only be one.

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I am invincible.

I haven't been sick -- with a cold, the flu, the anything -- throughout the past four-plus years.

It seems no virus or bacteria can affect me. And if I'm keeping these insidious creatures from harming me, it seems probable that I'm taking care of cancer (or will be able to, should I have to) and all other death-dealers too. I also get to brag that I can prevent and/or cure the common cold, while medical science never will be able to.

Currently, no one knows what causes fibro. There are a few theories, and all of them are amazingly stupid. And, therefore, so is the way fibro is treated by all but a few doctors. Dr ML&S has it right, for example.

I think fibro may be an autoimmune disease. Such diseases cause the body to attack normal, healthy body structures in their hyperactive Doberman-eagerness to protect the body. A brutal assault by the body on the body certainly would be capable of causing fibromyalgians' all-encompassing pain, tender points, chronic fatigue (whose cousin narcolepsy is suspected of being autoimmune), etc etc et cetera.

My gene pool is a a rich habitat for autoimmune diseases. Those in my family who have such diseases also cannot get sick. This inability to get sick is the only -- symptom? -- shared by people with diverse (and genetic, not communicable) autoimmune diseases and/or disorders.

Unfortunately, this means I have family who are fellow immortals, and I am destined to attempt to kill them, and they me. There can only be one.

The current state of fibro misdiagnosis, however, ensures that people who can get sick end up being labeled fibromyalgians. People with extremely cruel iterations of Celiac, chronic fatigue (unaccompanied by body-wide pain and esp. tender points), crippling depression, etc etc et cetera get lumped in with true fibros by doctors who haven't run enough tests.

Which keeps fibro from being understood and from being cured. (See various posts at my other blog for more rants dealing with the above paragraph's subject matter.)

Perhaps: If you've been diagnosed with fibro and have had a cold since then, you need a new doctor and a new diagnosis. I hope you find you have something else... It will keep you from having to worry about being hunted by sword-wielding gimps bent on decapitating you.

(I will seem crazy -- well, crazier -- if you don't know about The Highlander.)
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