I know this doesn't have anything to do with arthritis, but there are so
many of us on here who have been affected by Alzheimers Disease, that I
thought this would be of interest.  And many more of us may be affected by
it in the future, unfortunately!

I tipped over and out of my older Optiway  (FORTRESS) scooter.  I got it
in 2000
I figure that the floor of THAT scooter is narrow....
I was reaching for a sweatshirt.......the whole scooter tipped over!   I

Alison's G Pigs aren't the only ones... although it was monsoon season
for them..
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/hamseas.htm

I just received an email this evening from a friend of Donna G.'s.
She said that Donna's brother Eric passed away today from a brain
aneurysm.  He was 54.
I had talked to Donna last Friday evening.  She was out of the

I am a Marine and I was doing some training to get ready to go back to
Iraq.  It is night time and I was on a patrol. I stepped into a hole
and feel down.  I twisted my ankle pretty bad.  By the time that I got
somewhere that I could check it out I could see the Swelling thru my

Well  my Mom has stabilized. They did not put in a pacemaker but
instead thought that it was a drug reaction to the high dose of anti
hypertensive medication that she takes.
Her BP was recently running high and her doc has been changing meds.

well, i had an ancient singer that died in a flood in my laundry room a
few years ago. i hate sewing and hadn't planned to buy another machine,
but now that i'm in the new house, i need/want to make some things and
really do need a machine, even tho i'm not sure if i can remember ...

Only my dear friends here would understand but my catheter is out!!!!! One
more step for me and less bitching to the nurse staff and my family and
friends.  I am now intermittently catheterizing which quite frankly is a
hell of a lot less work than the catheter was.  Who would ...

I have a form to fill out. The options are:
Employed
Self-employed
Unemployed

When I posted last week, our cat Toby wasn't feeling well. We did end up
taking him to the vet that day, as I didn't like the way he was looking
at ALL. Basically what it boiled down to was stress + his usual "weak
immune system" ended up with a kitty cold and viral outbreak all ...

Well, I finally got to meet my new doctor this morning.  She's no bigger
than a minute, reminds me of Di A. and is very knowledgeable and pleasant.
She made me feel as though we were partners in the health care and was not
intimidated by my knowledge from the internet, etc.  ...

Just wondering if others are experiencing similar problems with Enbrel.
I have been on Enbrel for 10 months, and this past weekend I
experienced a major flare.  This is the first major flare since I
started Enbrel.  Is it possible it is losing it's effectiveness?  I was

Lost of new drug news from the current ACR meeting in San Diego - see
alt.support arthritis.
This UK site looks as tho it has died.
Peter

I'm curious... do many of you develop strange allergies as you age?  It
seems I am becoming allergic to nearly everything, and some of them are very
strange.  The latest is... believe it or not... hospital bracelets.  The
last reaction was bad enough they had to pin the bracelet ...

Well  my Mom has stabilized. They did not put in a pacemaker but
instead thought that it was a drug reaction to the high dose of anti
hypertensive medication that she takes.
Her BP was recently running high and her doc has been changing meds.