I've developed a large swelling in the inner part (wher they take your
blood) of me elbow. Went to urgent care and the young doc thought it
was synovial fluid. I thought maybe a ruptured tendon but the xray was
broken down. Will see ortho this week.  Only mildly sore and

I wanted to thank all of you for keeping my sister and brother-in-law
in your prayers and thoughts. My bil is still alive, but it won't be
long. Yet, things are much better. The panic over what to do etc has
settled down. My sister says his dying feels "very gentle" now and I'm

I've been MIA for the last week. There was a horrible fire in my
neighborhood last Sat. night. One of my best friend's house burned to the
ground. My friend and her husband barely got out. They have only the clothes
they were wearing. In the husband's case, that was a pair of ...

I've had GERD and a gastric motility disorder for years, and it flares
up every once in a while and then settles down. the last few months,
though, the heartburn is chronic. I've been to the doc, tried
different proton pump inhibitors (aciphex, zegerid, and now back on

mom's settling in the convalescent hospital ok, so far.  she has a roomie
whose a bit of a frightful old grouchy-poo, but she doesn't seem to phase
mom, thank goodness.
my father's surgery is tomorrow afternoon at 2.  he'll be moving into the

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Diane K. Witt
WITT, DIANE K., 53, of Oviedo, FL, passed away on March 5, 2007 after a

As some of you know, we bought a house here in Ohio. I haven't even had time
to keep up with the newsgroup except once or twice. We're heading toward the
finish line now. We move in on March 24th. Until then, it is Bob and me and
the contractors/installers/salespeople as we have ...

I was told today that I have walking pneumonia, I stopped the enbrel because
they thought it was a sinus infection but when I finally got there it was
this, but the RA doc told me with the sinus infection to keep taking the
methotrexate, but his office was closed when I got home ...

Hope you all had a safe and fun weekend.
I am having alot of prob with tingling and numbing type pain in my
legs...feeling of restlessness.  I have tried Gabitril but it doesn't
do

Stopping by to see how eve is doing, still recovering from my surgery, (
bursa removed),  the pain is gone, but too early to tell in a long term
basis, and still looking for a good Orthopedic surgeon to have both of my
hips replaced.

I hadn't thought about it, but DMARDS and other drugs which depress the auto-
immune system make you more susceptible to cold sores, etc., and that you can
get cold sores on parts of the body other than you lips.
Oh well...

You know, I've been sitting here all week in a funk since learning of
Diane W.'s passing, and tonight I got to thinking about our whole ASA
family.    We really are family and become so close to one another
despite most of us never meeting one another face to face.   Sometimes

Don't forget to set your clocks AHEAD 1 hour this evening,
or you'll be late for church in the morning.    <g>
...     "MD" does not stand for "Medical Deity"

Harv,
How are you feeling?  Any better?
I just got back from the Doc.  I asked him about the loading dose of
Arava and he said he never uses it anymore because almost all of his

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