Wow, i cant donate!!!

 i read somewhere a little while back and just ran into something similar again. Apparently if you have fibromyalgia you cant be an organ donor??

Being that it does compromise ones immune system i can somewhat understand but ive always been a donor since i was able to be one.  i guess maybe the meds and other things that you need when you have fibro makes everything different.

i can still however donate blood and im happy about that as ive donated a few times and its a good feeling giving back like that.

ive always been big on giving back to your community in whatever way you possibly can. When i ran my group i took donations for the local animal shelters and took donations for soldiers serving overseas as well.

It saddens me to think that i cant donate my organs anymore. ive always been set that if something were to happen to me and it could be done i wanted my son to get my pancreas.  He was diagnosed as a diabetic at the age of 4 and i really want him to have the best chance possible and now i cant give that to him.

So, while i fought so hard to go off my meds what is it really going to matter since my organs wont be able to be donated anyway...

i also read something tonight about selling your eggs??? i wonder if thats something else thats affected. Not that i would do it or that i would even be a canidate but its a thought running in my head and i may research it and see.

i realize that fibro is sister to Lupus but wow, the more i read and try to live life the more i realize that yes, this is a debilitating disease and its more serious that i thought.