Jo of PixieMoon

Artist: Jo of PixieMoon

Title: Acceptance

About the Piece: It’s a hard slog, to even accept you have to live with pain, but as everyone falls down, its how we stand up that matters most. This is me, solemn with pain, but strength within to fight through.

About the Artist: Self taught, in all levels!

My artistic field has been around since I was a kid, dabbling in all sorts for decades, starting with abstract arts, and prose.

I have never had any formal training in anything I have done or do, I love the fact I am completely self taught, so it is a challenge and a experience everything I gain and learn!

As for the pain front, I am 37 years old, and I was born with Fibromyalgia, I was shipped back and forth to doctors, and specialists as a child, with the same old reason coming back, it was growing pains. It wasn’t until I was 19 years old, that I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, and not after numerous diagnoses and wrong treatments! I used to call my pains, *mini arthritis* as a kid, and teen. I was far from the truth, but I knew there was something wrong.

So now, 37 years later I still suffer, varying in degrees, some days worse than others. But you survive. And no one knows your body, better than yourself. I know when I have done too much, and what I need to do. It is a hard slog, but it certainly not a death sentence, unless that person chooses it to be.