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GOOD NEWS BAD NEWS PULMONARY CHECK UP
- By Blkjewelz8960 · New reply 7:40 am
- Journal · 15 replies
- Well had my 6 month Pulmonary check up. Visited the vampires and photographer first. Took pretty pictures of my scarred up lungs. They have automated the system now so no film to take with you. Did my ...
Civil Unrest and Demonstrations
- By GringoGrandma · New reply 7:09 am
- Journal · 2 replies
- Today is Constitution Day here. There is a large group of people who are acting up again, the Zapatistas. They have closed some roads, and are causing disruption here & there. You never know where they ...
I have lost my power
- By deebelle · New reply 4:56 am
- Journal · 18 replies
- The Lost Hip : I scheduled December 17 for total hip replacement but my daughter does not like it and refuses to help because its bad timing at the Christmas season. Note that she was there for my back ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · New reply yesterday at 7:55 pm
- Journal · 38 replies
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
SO excited to share what I have found!
- By pwrsrg77 · New reply yesterday at 5:53 pm
- Journal · 41 replies
- I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...
Taking a moment for ourselves
- By nanascorner · New reply yesterday at 5:30 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- Chamomile Tea Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago ...
Diagnosed with RA? Treatments Ineffective?
- By 1irishman · Posted yesterday at 4:36 pm
- Discussion in Bone, joint and muscle diseases · 0 replies
- I have been misdiagnosed with RA and the treatments for it did nothing to help then I went to a teaching hospital and they diagnosed me with CPPD. Other names for it are calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate ...
Cement Dust, "Choke, Cough, Gag!!"
- By GringoGrandma · Posted yesterday at 1:59 pm
- Journal · 0 replies
- What a trade off! a week of my kitchen being torn apart, old cement being taken out, and no use of my sink. Here, they literally have to hack out the 26 yr. cement, I can't believe how much and the ongoing ...
Water or Coke? (or rather any carbonated drink)
- By meriterry · New reply yesterday at 12:39 pm
- Journal · 11 replies
- This was sent to me by a friend: Focus on the hydration thing....... Water or Coke? I could not believe this..... Very interesting WATER #1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies ...
Almost at my breaking point
- By Terri9967 · New reply yesterday at 12:25 pm
- Journal · 45 replies
- Well things go from bad to worse for me it seems! I got a call yesterday from my pcp and he wanted me in today to discuss the results from that 30 day event heart monitor. So I went in today at 10am ...
Meditation
- By Luma · New reply November 19, 2009
- Journal · 21 replies
- Any body out there....have you mastered meditation? If so please give me a few pointers. I have tried but not been too successful at it. I hear it's wonderful, specially for anxiety and depression. I ...
We are moving forward....
- By Luma · New reply November 19, 2009
- Journal · 2 replies
- We all know our final end. I don't want to be negative but we all face the same final outcome... The trick for me is too move forward with less resistance and friction. This wear and tear is not fun ...
Sad, Happy and Awesome Peace
- By GringoGrandma · New reply November 19, 2009
- Journal · 9 replies
- Just got word my Mom has taken a turn from doing good to probably not making it through the holidays. Sad, as we are very close, but happy, joy filled and full of peace as she is ready to go to Heaven ...
TO CLIMB OR NOT TO CLIMB
- By Blkjewelz8960 · New reply November 19, 2009
- Journal · 21 replies
- Ok, last weekend I stored up enough energy to go to a friends housewarming. Was really looking forward to it because we went to high school together and had only seen each other just recently at a funeral ...
swine flu
- By meriterry · Posted November 18, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- My daughter let us know that the doctor told her husband not to come into the doctor's office, and to assume he has swine flu due to symptoms he reported. He has headache, achy, fever, coughing, but unless ...
Oh my aching body!
- By Pouchie · New reply November 17, 2009
- Journal · 43 replies
- I hope I am not alone with the pain I have had with osteoporosis. The mornings are getting worse and worse. When I awake the pain in my spine is about a nine and sometimes a ten. I have been unable to ...
The Scary & Blessed Friday the 13th
- By GringoGrandma · New reply November 17, 2009
- Journal · 11 replies
- I just realized it is the 13th-Friday. Remembering what happened many years ago while driving semi truck with my now deceased husband. We had really pushed it, and were totally worn out. We stopped in ...
Dr. Hastings
- By meriterry · New reply November 17, 2009
- Journal · 3 replies
- Dr. Carl Named to CRN Board of Directors. Reliv Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Carl Hastings has been elected to the board of directors of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN ...
I just dont know what to do
- By ButterFlyGirl86 · Posted November 17, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- I know its going to happen 1 or 2 times a year and I was thinking That well it has not happen this year yet that i am going to be good and its not going to happen. I am talking about my Antoimmune hepatitis ...
Hanging clothes out in the Rain!?
- By GringoGrandma · New reply November 17, 2009
- Journal · 20 replies
- Yep, that's how we do it here. Weird, but after God giving a final rinse or 2, they should be dry manana..tomorrow. Water has been off most of the week, I get ansy when the laundry overflows my little ...
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