Just to keep everyone up to date, Sarah's surgery is scheduled for Wednesday
July 21st. She is a little scared now that a date has been set, but is glad that
it will be over in a week.
GramPaHugs,

I am waving at you as you are out here in our territory.
Melinda, glad you and Duckie got to meet. I wish I could have been there to
meet you both.
By they way since Duckie is not around to keep me in line. I am quacking up.

Has anyone experienced that when they started taking MTX that they felt it
made them worse?  I have now taken 3 weeks of it the first week I had so
much engergy and felt great, but each week after all my joints hurt more for
the next couple of days and just wondering if it can make ...

Whoa, you all sure have problems with the sinus. I was pleased to see you
talk about this area. I don't do the enbrel. But boy do I know the chronic
sinusitis, it is my long life friend by now. ;-)
Harv, you gave me some encouragement sharing about your sinuses being fixed.

To everyone, you know who you are !  >g< 
Thank you so much for the greetings and salutations and especially for
those cards and flowers. I can never express how really terrific they
made me feel. It really, really was extremely sweet to hear from so

... but not at the group. More a kind of
getting-it-off-my-chest domestic firework. Delete if such
squabbles don't interest you or never happen in your life
...

I've been sitting here a bit too long and wanted to let you know what I
found out last week with the second opinion ortho surgeon. Basically the
epidural question was just for general information and not an option for my
compression fracture pain since there is no nerve involvement. ...

when i was on my honeymoon, i came home, went to get my refills of my pain meds
and found that someone had refilled one on one of the days we were gone. Came
right through the drive through of the pharmacy, paid cash, it was even charged
to my health insurance. I switched pharmacy's ...

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arthritis pain, the British company behind the product said on

thank you, nothing to see here ;-)
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Learn something if you dare:
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Since I have been taking Glucosamine Condroitan (2 weeks now) I have had
trouble with gas. Has anyone else experienced this.

It's been a rough week for my brother Dick and for our family.  He made it
through the surgery to put a patch on his aorta last Friday.  But he has
been on a respirator since.  For the most part they have been keeping him
heavily sedated.  Otherwise his BP goes sky high.  He has had ...

so i finally had to stop the azulfidine and oxaprozin because i started
throwing up and was unable to eat for 5 days (cept some soup, how does chicken
soup ALWAYS go down???). They know that i cant afford the 800 a month that
enbrel would cost outta pocket with my insurance, i wont ...

Thank God for good news...
the combined efforts of ASA prayers, thoughts, vibes worked...tada!!
102 degrees...can you believe it??
and I wasn't even thumping the PT on her head or screaming (just some

There were 5 waiting for me at the Windows update site and 1 at Norton
anti-virus.   How about you?