After suggesting your family take on more of the duties, I read someone else's thread that reminded me how careful we have to be to not allow our family to just become our caregivers. So ignore my underlined bad advice above!

Learning to adapt, which it sounds like you're doing, is key. If you can afford an iRobot vacuum like Roomba, you might want to try one out. Downsizing your stuff and or your space certainly helps. Adapt your kitchen tools so that you can still cook, etc...

You might also want to check to see if your state has a program to provide you help a few hours a week.

Right! That's exactly what I did.

You guys/gals are the best! Thank you for the support, co-sign on my sanity, and laughs when I really needed to laugh. Getting ****** about it only makes things flare, so better to just laugh and say to myself.... "w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r sista"!

Truly I am blessed. As a family we manage, and I do as much as I can, for as long as I can, but there is definately a limit. The "suprise... company" who's never been here would have thrown me off on my best pre-RSD day. It was just rude of them. And another moment of clairity that this is the new me (limitations).

If I/we had an open gapping wound that reflected the pain felt by RSD, it would be so obvisous to everyone what the limits are. They can't see the pain, only the results of the pain.

when I wrote my original post, I was just really angry. Angry at them, angry at this damn condition. Bottom line... it just is what is. Que Sera, Sera.