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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / August 2006Gimp Picnic --- where did everyone go???
Well, just returned from the annual Ohio gimp picnic, and as usual, it was an absolute ball. The food was fantastic, the laughter, non stop, and the fun never ending!!! Now it's going to take me the next week or two to recover, but that is ok. It is well worth the price!!! : ) As usual, KJ and Kimmy were the hotesses with the most!!! Wondering though what happened to those of you who were going to be there??? Nann and Mike, we missed you and I was so surprised that you didn't show! Everything ok with you both? DeeTee and Bob, so sorry you all didn't make it either. We thought for sure you would at least show up for a short period of time. Aim & Tish, where were you guys??? I was soooooo looking forward to finally getting the chance to meet you!!! Phew, gotta go rest up a bit and recoup from my wild weekend in Akron! Hi to all the gang here at ASA. Miss you all and think of you often. Keep you all in my prayers all the time. Am still struggling with trying to find a new med that will work for me without all the infections. RD is thinking rituxin, but trying to come up with the financing is a bit tough. Need to do something soon, as every joint in my body is screaming and not happy. Am heading for a bit of hand surgery on sept 21st, and am hopeful it will ease things a bit pain wise so that I might be able to get back to posting more regularly. Hugs and pain free wishes to you all!!! Donna G Donna G wrote: > Well, just returned from the annual Ohio gimp picnic, and as usual, > it was an absolute ball. !!! First glance at that, I thought you wrote "bail." ... Q. What do you call a virgin on a waterbed? ... A. A cherry float. ROFL!!! Actually, Chief, you're not that far off. There was some police involved & we thought there might have been some bail involved. You know how it goes with those wild gimps!!! Donna G Hugs to you to Donna. Hope the hand surgery helps a great deal. Duckie > Well, just returned from the annual Ohio gimp picnic, and as usual, it > was an absolute ball. The food was fantastic, the laughter, non stop, [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Donna G (a major red face here) We started for the gimpfest. We did. We had a big box of fresh cookies in the back of the car. Then as we pulled out of our housing development, my DH reminded me that he had not eaten all day. (Now the man is 63 years old for cryin' out loud! He's old enough to fix himself something to eat at any time. I had gone to my chiropractor AND the grocery store!) Anyway, we stopped for a quick bite to eat. Then started again for Akron. We drove by some one story condos and couldn't resist pulling in to look at them. The agent took us to the model and we talked and talked and talked and then she told us about a house they had for sale so we drove over to look at that. By that time I had to use the bathroom and since we were still really close to home I drove there and went inside. Then the DH says, "Do you realize it's nearly 4:30? What time does the picnic start?" I, of course, told him 3:00 and we realized that if we started up right then, we'd get to KJ's about 7:30, and we would have stayed for at least 2-3 hours, then a 3 hour drive back (I do the bulletins for Sunday and church starts at 9 AM). We knew we'd not make it in to church if we left. Sooooooooo, I got on the phone to KJ and tried to explain. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it....... DeeTee > Well, just returned from the annual Ohio gimp picnic, and as usual, it > was an absolute ball. The food was fantastic, the laughter, non stop, [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Donna G > Hi to all the gang here at ASA. Miss you all and think of you often. > Keep you all in my prayers all the time. Am still struggling with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Donna G Hi Donna,,, I am sorry to read that you are feeling bad and hurting. The medicine is a balancing act with what works and harms the most. Good luck with it and I enjoy your emails of stufffff. You know you are prayed for and thought about. Harv Donna, So glad to hear from you. Glad you had such a great time at the gimp picnic. I hope the hand surgery does the trick. Can you drop us a note closer to the date to remind us. You have another box of books coming your way by the way. Jim sent it off yesterday. It is bigger than the last one. Happy reading. You take care and I sure hope this surgery does the trick for you so you can be back with us more. We sure do miss you.  SignatureLove and hugs Jo (\__/) .~ ~. )) /O O ./ .' {O__, \ { / . . ) \ |-| '-' \ } )) Warning: squirrels. .( _( )_.' '---.~_ _ _& > > Well, just returned from the annual Ohio gimp picnic, and as usual, it [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Donna G {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{donna}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}, I hope the surgery solves the hand problem for awhile. I know it would be nice if you could get at least one thing to ease up a bit. Sending you all the healing vibes i can vibrate... johnie > Hi to all the gang here at ASA. Miss you all and think of you often. > Keep you all in my prayers all the time. Am still struggling with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Donna G I'm glad to hear it was such fun, though I wish I could have made it. Actually, it was just I who was going as Mike now works weekends :) But...... the bishop was visiting one of our churches. For a while I thought I'd make it to Akron regardless, but some recent developments made it advisable for me to be here. Ultimately, everything surrounding that turned out as well as possible, but still it's better that I stayed. sigh....... I really could have used a gimp event though! I'm sorry to hear that you are still suffering so much from the RA and that funding for the rituxan is not coming through. Remind us again of your hand surgery as it draws closer so we can fire up the prayer machine for a really good outcome. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare > RD is thinking rituxin, but trying to come up with the >financing is a bit tough. Need to do something soon, as every joint in >my body is screaming and not happy. Am heading for a bit of hand >surgery on sept 21st, and am hopeful it will ease things a bit pain wise >so that I might be able to get back to posting more regularly. Well it is tough trip from Oregon!! LOL I hope you are able to find financing for Rituxan, would this be Medicare or your insurance. Stay on them and often they will fold. Hope you get a break from the RA soon. -- MZ Hi Mary Z. Welcome back!!! Yes, medicare is my primary insurance and they have agreed to pay their 80% and actually my secondary isurance will pay 85% of their 20% responsibility leaving me with a balance of roughly $500 to $600 dollars to pay out of pocket. The healthwell foundation has agreed to pay that amount, but my local hospital is unwilling to bill the healthwell foundation directly, so I will have to pay out of pocket first and then once it is payed, submit it to the healthwell foundation for reimbursement. Unfortunately, because I am on such a limited income and have had a very rough year with lots of extra prescriptions and such to pay for, I am already about $200 to $300 dollars in the whole, so it will likely take me a good year or two to pay off that out of pocket expense before I can submit it for reimbursement. Kind of a stressful situation to be in, but can't take much more of going without the RA meds. So what's a person to do?!!! One of these days we'll have to get a bunch of you from the west coast to fly into Ohio for the annual gimp picnic! They are soooooooooo much fun, and of course, Kimmy & KJ really know how to throw a party!!! LOL!!! Hugs, Donna G
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