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Journals
Off methotrexate today
- By nanomary · Posted August 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- Today is the day I usually take my weekly metho. Due to elevated liver enzymes my rheumy tols me to go off it for a month and then have enzymes rechecked. In 2 weeks I go off Enbrel so I can have hip ...
Post surgery
- By deebelle · Posted August 1, 2009
- 9 replies
- I had my back surgery 07/09/ It was an easy procedure but I thought I would bounce back and get up from the operating table and walk or something. It is called a lumbar discectomy. I thought I had a super ...
Can't believe I lasted the season................
- By DocBabs · Posted July 29, 2009
- 2 replies
- Tonight is my last match.Thank God.I have to admit the last few have been very rough.Instead of pain in the night and the next day ,it now extends itself for a day or two longer.I just received a call ...
What do you see?
- By larchmountain · Posted July 29, 2009
- 9 replies
- Just read an article written by my favorite motivational speaker, Vincent Muli Wa Kituku. It's about a square box with a black dot in the middle and how we focus on the dot and never see the space that ...
Popcorn Dimples - Not Cellulite!
- By GringoGrandma · Posted July 29, 2009
- 2 replies
- Calico & I were eating popcorn and watching a good documentary last night. When I walked by the mirror this AM, I had popcorn dimples!!! Guess we dropped some and I was too tired to notice till I saw ...
Hard (financial) Times for Everyone in USA
- By watsonmom3 · Posted July 27, 2009
- 15 replies
- I just want to say there are so many people struggling in our country financial right now...and I ask that we keep everyone in prayer. There are so many people getting laid off or all ready laid off ...
Not sure where to start...
- By Mevster · Posted July 27, 2009
- 8 replies
- I find reaching out to family, anyone, is even painful. This pain I've lived with has been with me long before they gave it the name Fibro. Reading the many entries helps to know that it's real and so ...
Lysosomal Disease and Alzheimer's
- By StephLynStill · Posted July 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi, Here is another little boy affected with Lysosomal Disease, Dillon. The correlations between Lysosomal Disease and much more well-known issues like Alzheimer's are being uncovered every day. With ...
159.2
- By larchmountain · Posted July 26, 2009
- 8 replies
- Finally! Life has been non-stop work. 25 days with out a day off and my exercise program has suffered big time. Two weeks from today I will attend my mother's 90th birthday party and I can't wait to show ...
Here I Go Again!
- By psjaquith · Posted July 25, 2009
- 1 reply
- I get a needle biopsy in right side thyroid (isthmus and left side already removed) in the two tumors there. The small and large look like they are trying to merge. I would so much rather it removed anyways ...
Second thoughts with many more to come.............
- By DocBabs · Posted July 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- It's been a little over a week since I made the decision to schedule my surgery. I don't know why I'm waiting so long.I guess I want to be really sure.Total Shoulder Replacement.I shudder when I say it ...
Strangeness of Life..........
- By GringoGrandma · Posted July 23, 2009
- 12 replies
- I slipped on some spilled hair gel at the store. Didn't see it as I was pushing a basket. I fell hard on all 4's on the cement floor. Black knees, swollen hands, and sore arms. No Insurance here and the ...
THE EYES HAVE IT
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted July 23, 2009
- 37 replies
- WOW 922 pm or 2122 for the military folks and I haven't talked to my journal all day. What's up with that. Any hoot, had an eye doctor's appointment today. Hahaha, he began telling me and showing me about ...
Been off plavix 5 days
- By dakota65 · Posted July 23, 2009
- 14 replies
- My spine surgery is scheduled for August 4, I have been off plavix for 5 days and today I wake up with a cold. Great this is going to probably get everything postponed. I am so nervous being off the plavix ...
Good news
- By Tanya1 · Posted July 23, 2009
- 1 reply
- Went to see my neph yesterday. I have been on cellcept & cyclosporine starting Jan this year. my protein spill was 580 now it has dropped to 126. my gfr 27 to 30 I hope by the time I go back in Nov I ...
frogs and lizards, memories of a southern girl !
- By bren55 · Posted July 22, 2009
- 10 replies
- That title may not make sense to a lot of people, but it's was so much fun as a kid catching them. My brother dave and i were always outside chasing something. we rode bikes, played ball,dug for rolly-pollies ...
San Cristobal on High Alert!
- By GringoGrandma · Posted July 22, 2009
- 3 replies
- OK, I got that news, but why? Today is the solar eclipse which scares many indigenous peoples..but it shouldn't affect us here. Also there is a 'plague?' of flu/pneumonia here. I am covered on all sides ...
SURGERY WENT WELL
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted July 21, 2009
- 22 replies
- Surgery went fine. I was saying my prayers on the table as my heart began racing and I went to the potty 6 times in 10 minutes. I have a nervous bladder told them they better catherize me if they didn't ...
6 weeks after my Surgery!!
- By samknow · Posted July 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- Boy I haven't been on here for awhile. I feel great after getting the stimulator inplanted!! Oh yeah i don't remember if i told you guys that along with getting the stim, i am now getting Remicade!! oh ...
Loosing my marbles (mind)
- By Blkjewelz8960 · Posted July 20, 2009
- 35 replies
- You know sometimes I feel like a nut -- and sometimes I just have brain fog. The other day I was working at my computer and spilled a cup of pineapple soda. Being in the computer field I know better than ...
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