Before Fibromyalgia -

Have you heard the quip?

'I live life like I type, fast and with lots of mistakes'

Well that was me from about the age of 20.

I married at 18 and at 19 was booked to travel to London, where I had landed a job in the computing industry.

It was going to be pretty exciting because back then computers took up entire rooms and PC's had not been invented. I say WAS going to be exciting because I never actually made it to that job. Three weeks before departure my husband decided that he wanted to start a panelbeating business way out in the country, and announced that we were not going ANYWHERE except out to the wops wops to sart his business. Now a smarter person than me would have said 'hasta la vista baby' but I wasnt very smart and besides this was the 70's and good wives did what they
were told back then.

So I had left my promising career in tax that I had been happy to give up for my promising career- to -be in computing and instead went to live in the middle of nowhere. I had to learn to drive within three weeks so I could pick up peoples VERY flash cars (frightening when you have only had your licence three days). Often they had broken windscreens - "Oh dont you worry about driving the car like that Teresa will pick it up "my husband would say cheerily to the customer. So I would drive miles and miles down dusty roads with a broken windscreen with dust, wind and bits of windscreen blowing in my face, often in second gear because I couldnt find third and fourth gear.