Okay everyone - Diane needs our prayers big time again.  I knew she was too
quiet but thought she was just working on getting ready to go home - the
house has to be renovated and organized first and she was working on
occupational therapy and physical therapy to get herself out ...

If weather cooperates, we are off to Denver tomorrow to see my Mom and
sister. They are plowed out now, but only because everyone chipped in to
hire a snow plow to do the street. The street is not on the county's list to
plow, at all!!!!

i am out of commision health wise and computer wise.  I have strep that
i'm just recovering from and my computer screen back light fried,
something that has to sent in to Dell (they won't have it back until
January 4th.I hate being off enbrel for more that a week but, alas it

Just taking a minute out of a busy schedule to wish you all the most
blessed, merriest, and joyful christmas season ever!
May those of you who will be traveling be blessed with safe travels to
and from, and may you all be healthy and blessed with lots of love,

Patients' Googling of illnesses tries some doctors' patience
By Julie Deardorff
December 19, 2006
Increasing numbers of us are Googling our own weird headaches,

Calorie Cost of a Few Favorite Treats
December 21, 2006                   13:24
Want to know how long you'll need to dance to burn off that slab of
Christmas ham or how much time you should spend walking to work off

Originally posted in   alt.support.cancer.prostate
Drug Costs?
Could this be contributing to the cost of pharmaceuticals?
Pfizer's McKinnell to Get $180M Package

lonnnnng week, but i'm back.   puget power finally got around to our street.
those poor guys, the linemen, i mean.  what a HUGE, and dangerous, job for
400 to 500 crews to handle!  (a million customers out of power and that's
really more like 2.3 million people, cuz 2.3 people is ...

Just wanted to let you all know I managed to get my cards off this
week. I have been coping with this knee and it took me a while to
realize that my lack of energy might actually be joined to the pain I
was having. Some days it was all I could manage to get out of bed and

Nann,
I feel for you with the rib stuff. Mine is going crazy too. I think we
should both get those cattle trampers and have one heck of a BBQ. ;-)
Mine went bad because of reaching up to put tape around the plastic on the

What size needles are available?
28, 29, 30........anything smaller?
... Fear of crowded shopping malls:   Santa Claustrophobia

The pharmaceutical lab Merck withdrew its painkiller Vioxx because it
was found that patients were twice as likely to suffer heart attacks
and strokes.
The New England Journal of Medicine questioned the safety of all COX-2

alex just called and told me to shut down the big electrical stuff.  said
power is going off on the eastside of federal way again and i'm on the
eastside.  so, i'll be shutting down, until we know we're on a safe grid.
kate

Just got this from Donna's friend:
Pardon my intrusion, but I am a friend of Donna G and am at her
apartment right now typing this note to you like she asked me to do. I
just brought her home from the E.R. and have gotten her squared away in

Dear folks,  We know there are many of you who have already responded
to
Patty's recent loss individually and/or with a group. Rosie and I are
offering another group response. If you are interested and want some