Hi Everyone!

Just a quick note (as I'm still not supposed to be typing just yet!) to
tell you all thank you so much for all your thoughts and prayers during
my most recent hospital stay!

I am feeling better and thankfully this time there was no signs of
infection.   Pretty much just pure asthma that got really bad. (boy are
my wrists killing me from having 5-6 blood gases drawn.   Not fun!)
Most likely trigger is the humidity as it has been very, very rainy and
humid here over the last several weeks and humidity is a big trigger for
me.  They did find a new nodule in my left lung, and we will have to
look into that a bit further, as the nodule was not there in
february/march when I had my bronchoscopy done.   Hopefully it turns out
to be no big deal.  I have been home for several days and have mostly
just been sleeping.   Feeling a bit stronger though.   Am tapering down
from the usual 60 mg of pred and also from having to be up to 7 liters
per min on my oxygen.  Usual is 2 liters pre min on the oxygen.

The results of the lump they found in my breast, was benign and they
will just watch things for now.   Have to go back in 4 months for
another mammogram, but otherwise all is good on that end.

Waiting for abatacept to be approved so I can get started on that, but
otherwise things are doing ok.   My CRP took a jump up from 3.0 to 7.4
and the sed rate also took a jump up, so my RD is not happy about that,
but otherwise I am doing ok.  

Hand and wrist are healing up nicely although the whole scar is going
through this funky peeling thing right now.  Hopefully the ortho will
give me the ok to go back to full use and to typing when I see him the
first week of june.

Well, thats about it.   Thanks again for all your prayers, thoughts, and
well wishes.  As always, they have meant so much to me and they kept me
going through this latest blip in the road.

Hugs and blessings to you all!

Donna G