Good Moanin' Healing Well V29

Hey Everyone.. Long time no talk, huh?  Wow, sounds as if everyone has been super busy here.. I do read everyday, but just haven't been feeling very "me" lately.. Am trying to get the old me back.. So here goes..........................

 

El - Did you up your dose of MTX?  You were supposed to do that Fri right?  You feeling ok?

 

Erin - SOOOOO glad you are feeling better now.. you had me worried woman.. Happy that you made it to Joe's too.. I know you always feel better when you're there.. how'd you do on the races?

 

CaMama - How are you feeling?  Throat still yucky?  My son is complaining of a sore throat today, but he's had such a dry cough lately, I think it's just irritated.. Another thing you can try to gargle is Water and Peroxide.. Tastes horrible, but has helped me in the past..

 

Yalinda - So sorry to hear about your Sabres.. I was rooting (sp?) for them too.. darn darn darn.. And your daughter, my lord!  That would scare the poop out of me.. holy cow!  I think I would have passed out if I saw a cop car pull up, thank goodness she is ok!

 

Boo - How are you doing?  How's the grandbabies?  I'm hoping you decided to go with your sis and shop?

 

The Bear - It is so nice to have you on this thread.. your posts make me smile.. What days are you going to Manchester this week?  3 right?  I am ORIGINALLY from Arizona, but I am in the Air Force, and am currently stationed in Charleston, South Carolina.  The weather isn't too bad here.. is usually pretty nice, and we're right on the beach.. but it's been a bit breezy for the beach lately..

 

Uhm, let's see.. what I have been up to?  Well, my flare has managed to come and go for the past couple months which of course has made me HIGHLY irritable.. but I am making a decision, as I usually do, to not let this disease rule my life.. I am going to feel better.. and be nicer, 'cause this just isn't me.. I'm not a cranky person.. and I hate that this disease has done that to me.. so I've been working on "me" lately.. and boy do I need a lot of work! But I'm getting there..

 

Things at work are getting a bit hectic, and I don't know what the future holds for me, so that has gotten me a bit stressed, which of course lends to the flare and irritability.. but I am trying to deal with it by saying this is out of my hands and whatever happens, I'll deal with it as it comes.. cause if I sit and dwell on it, I'll drive myself mad..

 

Family life is GREAT!  Hubby just changed his schedule, so he is back on days.. is so nice to have him home at night with me again.. I've missed it so much.. Kids are doing good, they are getting so big.. School is almost out, just a couple more weeks!  Woo-hoo!  I know they can't wait! 

 

My driver won the race last night.. I know I am like the lone NASCAR fan, BUT I'm gonna tell you guys anyway - 'cause I'm excited!    Last night's race was the Nextel All-Star Challenge.. and it's a race for money.. whoever wins it, gets A MILLION DOLLARS.. and MY favorite driver, Kevin Harvick won it.. The two biggest paying races of the year, Daytona and the Challenge, he won!  That is SOOOOOOOOOOO cool! I wish I could get paid a million for a driving a car! 

 

Ok, I'm off to try and get motivated now.. Not sure what I'm going to do today, but I'm sure I'll get into something!  I hope you all have a nice Sunday!

 

Duck

 This is the bear calling from a multi-story cave complex in Kings Cross London that passes for office accommodation for us worker bears and I'm not supposed to be talking to you good people. However, seeing as I have nodded off at least 4 times today at my computer I thought that beaming down to sunny San diego, or Oklahoma where the ground is full of gold or New York where the local populace laugh at adversity [or so I am told] might keep me awake. It's a ccombination of a quiet office day, mid afternoon meds [dihydracodeine] and the actual way pd affects me personally, I nod off regularly. It's not like falling asleep in front of the goon box though, more like the effects of a general anaesthetic - boom - you're gone but only momentarily and then you wake up all abruptly slightly disoriented. Veryy strange symptoms. Verging on the unpleasant and you can DROOL so much - eeeuchh.

Jeeez I really am struggliing to stay compis today but camama will be pleased to nkow that mommy bear has caught you bug so you won't have it for much longer - what comes around, goes around as they say. Ther it is again - 'they' cropped up again. Who are 'they' that seem to be the fonts of percieved wisdom? I think it is the tooth fairies and their mates, weeeeeeeelllll why not? You can just imagine dubya on the boom box talking about something and he comes out with 'The tooth fairies told me'. well stranger things have haoppened.

THAT'S IT, I'M GOING HOME!!! I've just fallen asleep on the john. I've just got to be careful now that it doesn't happen on the train home. It's only a half hoiur journey to downtown Apsley but the end of the line is another half hour beyond and it certainly wouldn't be the first time I've missed my stop but that used to be late at night after an evening drinking fermented fruit juices. This is different and slightly scary. I'll let you guys know how I get home laterz eh?

stay well

A slightly hibernated bear

Stand the search party down camama I got home alright but I'm still feeling weird. Mommy bear has retired to her bed and there s no sign of the bear cub so I guess it's the sofa. Have a great evening and don't overdo it.
stay well
The Bear

 Yalinda Girl, I sure hope the wrists don't scold you later on. 

Yucky overcast day and my finger joints are screaming. 

I had an awful thought a little while ago....I don't think I like my hubby very much when I'm not on antidepressants.  Teehee.    Maybe I just don't like him today, let's hope.  It's almost funny.  He's bi-polar and I find myself tensing up when he starts getting picky at everyone at work.  Today I told him where to jump off.  He came home and fed the horses then went to see his momma.  I'm sitting here laughing to myself, he's almost acting like he's afraid of me.  Those meds really have helped with the Fibro pain but made me feel "flat".  Look out World, Boo has found her voice.     

Alright alright, camama 4 or 5 days is too long if its bacterial - you got any white spots down there? Antibiotics is the route. If there are no white spots and the glands are still up it's more than likely viral and then you just have to let it run its course taking whatever works for the pain and inflamation. Also, have you ever had glandular fever in your life as I do believe that you can get flares for years afterwards.

Boo; I do believe I know where you are coming from, just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to like them or their behaviour all the time. Mommy bea r is a social worker/drug & alcoholcounsellor and I swear that when she is in a phase of 'don't come near me' for whatever reason she treats me like a client. And as for the going home to momma, well, that I never did understand as me and my mother got on best when there was abbout 200 miles between us. But are not men just grown up little boys?

Feel much more awake this morning saving all my sleepinesss for the train ride to Manchester later on today.

Great day tomorrow - it's the European cup final at what we call  football - soccer to you. It's between my team, Liverpool and AC Milan. Only 4 English teams have ever won it and Liverpool are one, in fact we won iit 5 times including 2 yeyars ago against the same opponents after coming from 3-0 down to win it on penalties after a 3-3 draw. And of all the places I am going to be watching it is in Manchester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

The rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester is unexplainable and there are only 40 miles between the two cities. A student at Liverpool  University someyears ago was doing his PhD thesis on the two cities and found in a survey that 86% of boys between the ages of 5 - 13 when questioned had a pathological hatred of all things Mancunian, and of those over 80% didn't know where Manchester was. Got anything like that in the States? At least the Mets and the Yankees are from the same city. 

Time to work

stay well people

The Bear

Ha ha, Yalinda, you better watch it, Bear might throw some unsavory hand signals your way (or worse!)   I know someone who moved to Manchester, I wonder if that is where she still lives....

Well, I did do some research on the net before I went to bed. And I did end up being pointed to glandular fever, which I guess is Epstein Bar Virus / Mononucleosis - and yes, I was hospitalized for an acute case of that in March 2003. Which, that supposedly was my second case of diagnosed mono in my life. If it is glandular fever flaring....I guess there is nothing that can be done for it, but I've probably infected a LOT of people, because I think it is very contagious when flaring.  Either way, I will see if I can reach the doctor today and see what she says.

Usually we here from Erin by now.....I hope she's doing okay.

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camama...my sister in law had something similar but I think it was an infection in her larynx? she had a terrible sore throat and even lost her voice. At one point, it was thought she might have throat cancer since her symptoms were so strange. Not that you have that!!!! Her doctor wasn't sure what was wrong and sent her to an ENT, turns out it wasn't anything serious but she had to have antibiotics. I had never heard of such an infection but it is more common than we realize. I hope you feel better!!!!

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HOW BOUT THAT FOR STARTERS? Come come yalinda I've been rankled by far worse people than you. YOU TRY BEING IN THE WOODS FIRST day of hunting season, my does that rain have a sharp edge. Water off a ducks back dear. I'll be in front of the goon box tonight just shouting my team on and I'll even throw in a sedentary 'rah' from Yal.

The bear  doctor is 'in' especially since throwing the right diagnosis at camama. But seriously I only threw that thing about GF cos a boss of mine used to get regular flares just like you were describing and she had had GF years before.

Well here I am sitting in a cave  - and it really is a cave, tiny basement room - in a friend's house just outside Manchester in a place called Ramsbottom. I kid you not. Affectionately known as sheepsarse everywhere else. 

lovely old mill town in Lancashire but of course the mills have all been converted as bijou residences for the young single and upwardly mobile [that means they go upstairs to bed] who work in Manc. It's a perenial problem througout the country in semi rural areas near big cities, incomes fed up of city living move into new areas where they price the locals out of the housing market. Young people just don't want to share houses with each other the way we all once did. 20 years ago you only bought property when you got married but every Tom Julian and jacinda want to do it now and it is local families who suffer. It is exacerbated because we a such a small country geographically and new build is now taking place in previously sacrosanct Green Belt areas. Here endeth todays rant.

 

lastly; I notice many of you have difficulty typing - as I do but for different reasons - and my IT manager has identified some very clever free to download software that enables hands free typing. I am just looking into it as it would save me enormous amounts of time at work as I am self servicing - no admin assist - and the best one doesn't involve voice recognition by having to read half of war and peace inti the puter. When I get back to the office I will post the name so that you can all look into it for yourself. All that costs is the hardwear - head mic etc -. Watch this space and remember what peace there may be in silence.

until the next time

stay well

The Bear

moanin. bear i am familiar with a voice program called dragon but it is a fussy little bugger andhas not worked well for many peps that i know. perhaps the software is improving but in the past difficulty to "train" the program has been the greatest obstacle i am aware of. i wish u luck with ur venture and if u find the program works well i would love any info u could provide further.

just call me popeye ladies and gents g g g g g gggggghhhhh

for some reason maybe the heat my left forearm swelled right up yesterday just like popeye's! took a diaretic and it did help- but not certain why it happened. we did hit high 80's here which is bizzar in itself! very limited range of motion in that arm so i think the circulation is in a bit of a stir? or lack there of?

oh well always something! warm again today and i am home
camama u still havent seen ur pcp! girl u gotta take care of urself! hugs i hope u get an antibiotic and feel brand new asap!
erin how r u?
duck?
el?
bear?
boo ?
mom?
harley?
etc?
etc?
etc? .... lata friends yalin

doin' ok here, I guess. Still hands are very sore and stiff--don't want to type much. I'm getting ready to take a shower and then splint my wrists for the rest of the night. I want to play piano, though, so maybe I'll hold off on the splints. For those of you who play, the piano is wonderful therapy for something like RA. Loosens up the joints; doesn't do much in the long run, but I bet my finger joints are very strong so they can take more abuse from RA (if that's what I have).

Ducky--you must have taken quite a fall! I hope the swelling goes down soon, but it sounds like you may be stuck with the bruise for a while. Make sure you get that taken care of.

Hope everyone else is well. I'm off to nurse my hands.

El

Monain? Moanin all, beautiful morning here in downtown Apsley but apparenty it isn't going to last as therest of the weekend is going to get wetter and wetter. On weekends such as this in the past I would get in a few 4 packs - can't count as high as 6 in the UK - and watch the sport but two things **** against this. Mommy bear has this chest/throat infection that flew in the wind fron camama's cave and the side effect I've experienced from my pd meds. After 2-3 tins I start to fall asleep! I do it anyway at the drop of the hat when I'm atmeetings etc but whodoesn't? Getting drunk seriously is no longer a choice - I'm in the arms of the sandman long before that happens.

 

Ducky that sounds lke one  mother of a bruise, how the hell did you cop for that? Is bruising easily a consequence of RA I really don't know.

 

Camama; got to the bottom of your nasty throat yet? you hinted at somehing but like Pooh I am a bear of very lttle brain and I need things spelling out. Doh!

 

Hey Popeye, your sedentary 'go Liverpool' clearly wasn't enough as we lost 2-1 but thanks anyway.

PCP? RX? this is some kind of anti-limey code,  a sort of mushroom effect, it's ok, I can take it, I'm a mano type bear. Your just trying to get my growl up again eh?

 

It's a public holiday here on Monday and mommy bear, social beast though she is, has invited a few families around for beer, wine and nuuts and berries the afternoon. I asked her who was foraging?  You know those looks people give give you? The ones that say 'don't be such a dumb smeghead, you are'. So today I have to make a trip to Soho in the big city after work, Chinatown to the tourists. Rice vermicelli, beansprouts, dried tree fungi, beansprouts, tiger prawns shell on, spring roll casings, crabsticks, risotto rice salad. No Boo, Im not making soup, go to the back of the class. Seafood risotto and genuine spring rolls as learnt at the side of Vietnamese refugee families I worked with many years ago. Like nothing you can buy in any restaurant, what do they know. Of course there is a way of getting out of doing this - just have a few beers Mondaay lunch, then.................hibernate. Naw I enjoy cookng and have even visited the thread dedicated to recipies. See how adventurous this bear's eh? 

 

Well i must off to work and the tran and take mommoy ebar up a cup of tea before I go.

Dumb as I may be but stoopid?????????????????

Stay well people.

The Bear

    

Hey everyone..

Yalinda...Girl you are going to be a tired one today, but I know what its like to have those nights where you just can't sleep. How is your shoulder? It sounds as if your pain is not as bad as it was but with RA it never seems to go away completely. I can't remember if you are taking prednisone or maybe your enbrel can keep you awake?

Camama...strep throat? I know my sons have had white spots and terrible sore throats to where we thought it was strep and were shocked that it wasn't, so you just never know until you go in and get swabbed. I'm so sorry you are miserable :( Last year my hubby had it and they gave him pain meds along with his antibiotics, his throat hurt so much. Please feel better soon.

I'm hanging in there, and I think the mtx is working alright, even if I have only been on it a few weeks. The crazy hip pain I was having has minimized a lot!!! but I have been having a lot of ovary pain on both sides and I can feel it in my lower back so my husband is pestering me to get in to see the doc about that. I have had a few surgeries and after I had my last laperatomy (sp?) my RE told me I had two fibroids inside my uterus so I am wondering if those pesty things are starting to grow and I will have to have another myomectomy. At this point I think I am just tired of the surgeries and now that I have this "inflammation" at 36 I'm ready to just have the plumbing taken out if you know what I mean? but we have $10,000 sitting at an IVF clinic waiting to do another cycle since my husband and I don't have any biological children together and he has none of his own. This whole RA type inflammation is rough and I just don't have it in me anymore but he is really set on this, and I think my body is just saying its done!! It's so done that at age 32 my ovaries stopped working and we are having to do donor egg. I have often wondered if its something autoimmune related because its not normal for your body to just stop working.

So sorry for babbling on and on!!! I also think the mtx makes me emotional :(