are you getting Rx coverage again, or are you having to do the dance to get
meds?  just so I can keep it in mind.......

And what is going on in your neck?  I'd forgotten you have neck problems.  My
traction unit is doing me so much good.  It's invaluable for my neck probs.  
(I like the traction table at PT even better, but can't justify asking for
that referral right now as the situation has eased up a fair amount.  
sigh....)

Hi Gwen,,,,  I have been thinking about this.   I would ask first of my RD
if there is anything a person can do for  RA lung.   If the answer is
nothing,,,,,,, why worry about something we can do nothing about????

Harv

Thank you everyone.   I am better now.   Tomorrow is the big breath test for
the record and I take my first a.s kicking anti-biotic pill.
Hayyyy none of us are teenagers anymore and we deal with death everytime we
get in the car or walk across the street.   I am worrying about something
that takes years to take a persons life and an airplane could land on my a.s 
tomorrow.   Ya know what I mean???  We can deal with this  but no more beer
,,,,,bourbon ,,,,even a margarita,,,,  what the hell,,,, where's that
airplane???  LOLOLOL just kidding.

Harv

I am just sorry that about the time you called the wife and I had to go to
SugarLand and babysit for about a week.    You bet,,, we will do the Space
Center,  Kemah, and Galveston.  You have to know where to go ya know   but I
am tellen ya,,,, I have to be through with this TB stuff.  Boy,,, its worse
than Methx.
Harv

Hahahaha  OOoooh, I know better but thanks anyway.   That was quite some
deal and it took longer than I thought it would.  It was the first time I
ever had a blood test from an artery but the  Tech was really good at what
she does and you would think that it would be easy for me to Blow Hard,,,,
and soft  and with little in, outs. We have a base line now and I am sure I
will be back every year to do it all over.  Good Lord willen and the creek
don't rise.
    The only thing that bothers me other than the medicine is that I am
doing nothing for the RA lung,,,,, that I know of.
Harv

What she said, Harvey. Only I can't raise a glass, well, ginger ale maybe. MTX
says no booze. I told my RD I *might* have a glass of wine at Christmas, but on
the other hand, why bother? Even before meds I would go months without a glass
of wine. Maybe I'll have one for New Year's or Valentine's Day instead. :-)
---
Joan

I have none of the nodule scaring of TB in my lungs  like RA it can get in
other places too and my reaction to the test was too big to ignore.  That is
why my RD sent me to this Pulmo guy.
   I could of been exposed when I was a teenager-14 and setting pins in the
bowling alley with hobos and the like..  My oh my,,, I was in a half dozen
fights and watched 3 times that many.   You would not believe it but they
would fight and each man would be keeping two lanes going and they would not
even know it up front.   Fists only,,, no pins, no knives and no throwing
those 16 lb bowling balls.  If you did, you might win your fight but 3-4
would hold you while they beat the whooooly crap out of you.
    I never will forget the night after they put in the automatic
machines,,,,one guy back there and myself and two other guys took care of
the whole week.   I would do my home work and do what needed to be done to
keep things going.   Welll, it was a hot night and the air came from up
front.   Sometimes I would open the back door to the tracks(6 of them) and
get some air and catch a cig.   This night when I opened that door,,, there
was a man standing there not moving about 6'4  220.  His eyes were cold
black and skin was like the leather on a saddle that had been in the rain
too much and a two week beard.   I got that door closed and locked just as
he hit the door.  Not a half second to spare and I leaned on the door as he
hit it again with a body that had not seen fat in a long, long time.   I do
not know how many dreams I have had that had the sound of wood breaking.  To
my good fortune, up walks Mr. Carnes who owned the place and I do not know
where that gun came from but it was in my working area back there.  He put a
bullet through the door down in the lower corner and the devils helper went
away.    He turned to me and asked,,, you been having this door open???
Meee,,, no sir,,, I guess he was going to steal something.   It had a lock
from then on.  :-)
Harv

Just wanted you to know I am thinking of you and hoping this

Thank you very much...  Yes, it will be 8 months of one pill a day and my oh
my, I hope that is all.
Harv

I have been thinking about getting some,,, I have taken it before and yes,
it does mess with diabetes,,,,I can not skip any days of no testing and I
can not let that get out of hand,,, talken nerve damage and what not from
that.   I heard a plane flying low heading for Hobby airport and
thought,,,,, maybe thats the one that is going to squash me flat.  LOL
Harv

Ya know Alex,  I worked in two breweries and I have seen guys that drank
what is called Wert and that is probably mis-spelled,,, right out of the
vats before the final filtering.   I never did but those guys could not get
10 feet away from a toilet buttt they say,,,, the taste, the taste.
Myself,  I like to sneak behind the keg line when it was running and get a
big cup of beer from the test squiggle the lab uses to test the beer.  34
degrees and the best beer there is.
   Really, I do not drink much beer and now none at all for awhile but I
drink low carb Mich. which is a quality beer with not much alcohol.  By the
way all lite beer is 3.2% or less and regular beer is about 5.0....
Harv

Thank you JO,,,,,  I got my priorities set right today when I help my new
grandson and he knew who I was and wanted to play.  When you get down on a
babies level all the rest does not mean much.
Harv

Thank you Cynthia.   I have thrown my B6 away because it was too old and I
intend to get some the next time I go to the store.   I hope Becky saw this
too.
Harv