My sister has finished her course of antibiotics but still has a lot
of drainage from her incision site. Please continue to keep her in
your prayers. I do not like the looks of it, but her surgeon is at the
coast so it is a bit of a drive to get there. Her doc will look at it

My jaw is FINALLY getting better.
Feel like grabbing the next one by the shirt and telling him straight
up--"Listen idiot--you mess up my jaw--YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT!"
May sound harsh--but'i'll bet he'll be more careful!

I just had a bone scan done and obviously don't have results yet but
the pictures on the green monitor showed one wrist being very bright
and lit up and the other hardly at all. I asked the technician about it
and all he told me was that the images are reversed on the monitor ie.

First let me say I've kept up with the posts.  I have everyone in my
thoughts and hope that healing will be on the way for our group.
I've read about the young man who fell, Donna G., Carole, Kelly E.,
Squirrly, and others.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The Haloween witches have been messing up my news
group :-(
Lorrie F

Well after post labour Day surgery went well, the ankle is doing fine,
physio went well, good healing on the incision.  The only difficulty with
the surgery was the depression I fell into as a result of the anaesthesia.
So I went from a floor with a cracked ankle to a floor where ...

My doc wants me to take Lyrica to see if it helps my pain more than
Oxycontin.  I start it tonight, I am not sure how long it takes to
work.  Everything I read about it does not indicate it is for mucsle
and joint pain.  If it works he will reduce the oxycontin.

My dad had met with an automobile accident about 3 years ago (he is now
55 yrs old). He was stopped at a red light and was hit from behind by a
drunk driver at a high rate of speed.  In addition to other injuries,
his knees hit the dashboard with force.  He had suffered from alot of

Hi group,
I've got a friend who's trying to get an adjustable bed for her mother
who has severe osteoarthritis (hip).  Ideas... on-line consumer
reports... personal experiences ?

Has anyone had pins and needles in there hands from AR? and is it part
of AR to have body aches other than joint pain with this arth.? thanks
for your thoughts  KK

I just posted this over at kickas.org but i KNOW some of you here might
want to read it. :
'This weeks people mag has an article about camryn manheim and how she
has RA. Though I know this group is for AS, Ive always felt that RA is

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass
of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how

Went into the hospital. I woke up last night two times have very, very rapid
heart beat. the third time at 6 am, got up hacking with no hair ball. Was
trying to take pause (sp) I got to 140 and freaked so couldn't finish
counting it. So I was hacking and dry heaving so finally ...

Got your card and you got to put two smiles on peoples faces. I was talking
to Denise at the time I got and opened your card. I told her about the card.
So it had more benefits than you thought. We were both laughing about it. We
both have three different pics in our heads now.

Monday -- October 24th
Jason is feeling somewhat better than he has for a while and he is now fever
and infection free. Also he had been having lots of pain in his neck where
the doctors put the rods in there at UAB but that is better now too. He was