When I woke up yesterday post ear surgery I felt fine.  Even went and got an
x-ray on my hand and got my MTX labs done.
Came home and took a nap and work up with a puffy "black eye" in the surgery
side.  Really pretty much all the tissue around the eye red and puffy.  It

This beautiful story comes from Sherman Rogers' old book, "Foremen: Leaders
or Drivers?" In his true-life story, Rogers illustrates the importance of
effective relationships.
During his college years, Rogers spent a summer in an Idaho logging camp.

             STEER CLEAR OF THE BUNK!
Glucosamine and chondroitin may help alleviate pain, but
new studies reveal they do NOTHING to repair the
underlying damage of arthritis.

Was anyone here first diagnosed with this then have your diagnosis
later changed to RA or something related?
I would like to hear your experience.
Thanks

Since I'm still fairly new to all this and trying to educate myself I'm
getting it piece by piece. I understand about immunosupressants like
plaquenil and mtx and how they function and I'm sort of understanding
biologics (well, not really)such as enbrel and remicade but why do

i saw my rheumy today and told him that i'm seeing my GI doc tomorrow.
my GI doc handles my cardiac stuff (are you all following this??) and
he just did cholesterol tests etc on me and wants to discuss them with
me. so much for my morning cheese danish at starbucks!

        Patient practice
Guide helps optimize encounters with medical professionals
By Richard A. Marini
April 19, 2005

I'm not sure about posting this.If I am in the right place or not.
I am 57 years old male,I had a Zimmer total knee replacement done on
March 7,2005.The recovery was going well,and had physical therapy at
the hospital,two days after surgery. Then I went home the fourth day.

ON one of the tabloid tv shows, on their weekend edition, they have a
feature on Kathleen Turner, and she  discloses about her RA, having a
tkr, and now much better she feels on her current treatment protocol.
She mentions her reluctance to talk about her RA.

 Two blondes waiting at the Pearly Gates strike up a conversation.
"How did you die?" the first blonde asks the second.
"I froze to death," says the second.
"That's awful," says the first blonde.   "How does  it feel to

We have been living in our new house for five years now.  And as seems
to be the standard these days, the floors are all tongue and grooved
chipboard, which on the landing creak and groan when you walk on them.
So much so that, sometimes in the night, they would release the

The reason some people don't know for sure
if they are going to Heaven when they die
is because they just don't know.
The good news is that you can know for

RED SKELTON'S -TIPS FOR A LASTING MARRIAGE
1. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, have a
  little beverage, good food and companionship. She goes
  on Tuesdays, I go on Fridays.

Last Friday I was listening to NPR and there was a story
about the dangers of Maple syrup tapping.  That it was
well known that if the trees weren't tapped regularly the
sap could possibly build up causing the tree to burst. The

I'm asking for a special place in Hell to be reserved for physicians
where they must take their own medications while being told either:
"this will make you feel great" OR "that's a normal reaction."