Good Moaning Healing Well V14

Erin, this makes me mad to hear! Listen, when my girls were very young, but old enough to understand, I told them that their Mother and I brought them into this world, and that they had no say in the matter. Therefore if ever life got them down, just come on back home to Momma and Pappa, where we would continue to support them.

I felt, at the time, that if they knew that they had a dependable safety blanket that they could count on, that this would probably make them more successful. I also truly meant it. It's called unconditional love, because under my breath, I would have considered them lazy and unmotivated if they had of come back home and slept till 11:30 an so on, while being healthy, lol. But good or bad, they were my wife and my creations. We would be responsible for them, for life. Boy, I feel like an angel here, ha ha ha.

Thing is, they never had to move back in with us to break us, lol! No they haven't quite broke us, but we have made sacrifices because of their need for many.

Well, my back is hurting due to all the patz I have laid on it :) .

I hope the test goes well for you and your Dad gets a wart on his nose  .

Rj

P.S. I had steroid injections yesterday and realized about 5 am why I couldn't sleep all night  !

Oh yeah, I greeted the rheumy nurse yesterday with "hey good looking". She said, "I like you".....She was young enough to be my child, lol, and big enough to whip my tail too!

My Aunts, my mom & boyfriend all tell me that he's just "not in reality" and will never EVER get it.  so i really don't bother with him at all because he's never ever made me feel good about myself, if anything makes me feel bad/guilty/ashamed that i'm ill and like this.  nothing ever supportive or positive.

Ducky, if you find em' he's all yours...usually in some bar or tavern around 6pm.

Rj, hope you get some rest tonite.  if not...clean the house. (that's what i do when i get shot up with steroids)...oy! but then you're a hurtin' the next day! can't win!

So the GI visit & Promethius test will have to go on the ol' AMEX.  wash my hands of it and be done....what ca ya do.  Hope all goes well.

Ciao! It's a beautiful day weather wise.

erin

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!!!!!  I'm teleworking today, so I didn't have to face the dreaded commute into my job.  I work out of a telework center every other Friday--it's a great relief. 

I'm still doing great with the joint pains (or lack thereof).  MTX is definitely doing its thang; and I'm on such a low dose (only 7.5 mg/week).  One thing I'm still worried about, and my husband is too, though are the side effects of this drug.  I still have that cough.  It has gotten a bit better since the beginning of the week, but I've noticed the past 2-3 weeks that it appears to get worse after I take my weekly dose of mtx.  I take my dose this evening, so we'll see if it gets worse tomorrow.  If so, I will definitely call my rheumy. 

Also, I have gotten my first mouth ulcers--gosh they hurt, although they more annoying than anything else.  I can't eat certain foods (ketchup, and spicy things).  I'm a bit surprised that I would get mouth ulcers on such a low dose, but the drug info. clearly states that the side effects are not dose dependent.  I'm sure my rheumy won't take the mtx away, though, since its been so great the last two weeks.  I'm more concerned about the cough than the stupid mouth ulcers, although I've read that these ulcers can be a sign of a low WBC?

How is everyone else doing?  Yalinda--hang in there and give it a bit of time.  I swear when I came down off the prednisone I must have been crazy!  But I only took it for a week, and at unusually high doses.  I started at 80 mg and tapered down to 20mg, then went cold turkey.  I think I could get away with that because I only took it for a week.  I do remember the joint pains hitting me as I tapered down to 40mg; by 20mg I started wonder why I was even taking the stupid drug.  I never felt as bad as I did, though, before I started taking the prednisone.

Erin, how are you feeling today?  Again, so glad that you had a great GI appt. the other day.

Duck?  CaMama?  Aldo?  Anyone I missed?

Have a great weekend everybody!  Provided I'm not wiped out by the mtx (since I take it on Friday nights), I'm planning on playing keyboard with the contemporary worship band at my church tomorrow night, and going out with some girlfriends for dinner on Sunday.

Elcamino

Hey All!

I just wanted to jump in and say Hi.  Thanks to all for the mouth ulcer topic and advice.  I run into the more minor of the two types without even being on serious meds yet.  Why do they last so darn long too?  I do a peroxide/water rinse 4X a day when I have them and that clears them up a bit faster.  It's an Old-timey remedy my MIL hooked me up with.

We just had our fair.  For me it's all about Cheese-on-a-Stick, French Fries, and Elephant ears. Yummm.

I have been doing better with Relafen and Plaquenil, but this ankle just won't let up and I still can't really exercise without ankles and knees flaring (even in the pool, unfortunately).  I am debating whether to give the Plaq. a few more weeks to do its thing or whether to just start the MTX at my next appointment.  Of course, I guess I can see what the Rheumy thinks too.    What do you all think?

Hey Erin and Yalinda--yes, it is great that the mtx/enbrel/plaquenil combo is working.  At some point though, we all have to ask at what cost?  See my new post regarding the lungs.

Elcamino