Selling and Buying in a time of Chronic Pain

This selling/buying is not migraine or fibromyalgia friendly. Most days there are no new houses to look at. Inventory where we want relocate is very low and when something hits the market it is usually sold in 1 or 2 days, which means we have to go and look at a house as soon as it hits the market. We've also had a lot of people looking at our house. All of it is hard.

The house is in a pretty constant state of ready for a viewing but there are still several things that need to happen before each showing. The roughest is opening all the room darkening curtains, removing the blackout cover I have attached to the bedroom windows and removing/folding the furniture covers. Then upon return I have to replace everything so we are ready for regular living. All of this is a challenge for my fibromyalgia and migraine prone head.

The leaving is also difficult. Most of the time there is no place to really go with the dog, so we just drive around the corner and wait it out. Sometimes I walk around a bit with Gypsy to help her feel less anxious but mostly we just wait in the car. It's uncomfortable, I have to put up with the lights and there isn't much of anything to do. This, on top of the added tasks to get ready and settle back in, is rough on my easily triggered migraine head.

It's not so bad to do once every day or two but we had 5 scheduled leaves over this past long holiday weekend. We also looked at a potential houses. Boy was that rough. Even after taking yesterday off, I still haven't recovered from all that activity.

I'm struggling to manage my migraines and fibromyalgia through this process. It can't come to a close soon enough. Right now, it's really just about finding another house cause we have plenty of interest and even offers coming in but have yet been unable to settle things since we don't have a place to go. The whole thing is a giant hassle. I hope in the end it will have all been worth it.