my lung specialist has had a chance to compare 3 years ago to a fresh
scan,,,, lots of lung lost it seems.   I had a good reason to be running out
of breath when doing something.    It also seems that my RD will be treating
me for whatever we can do to save the rest of my lungs.  ...

thank you for the surprise package today of cards. I sure can use them. I
appreciate you doing that for our group. You are so kind and caring. Thank
you for being my sister in all this.

Joie called tonight, his adopted son and his wife and baby were in a bad car
accident. The parents have bumps and bruises but the baby Abby has burns
over her body some 2nd degree others 3rd degree. So please pray for little
Abby she is 3 yrs old.

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an old farmer. He told the farmer, 'I  need to inspect your farm for your
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Allergy research giving weight to hygiene theory
By Rob Stein
THE WASHINGTON POST
March 4, 2008

I have a friend whos brother almost died from this and it was a very
long road to recovery after he had it.  He was on a vent for quite a
long time and was partially paralyzed from it.  He did recover but
continues to tire very easily and still has quite a bit of weakness in

I got a questionnaire from Abbott Labs asking me about 'my' RA. It had
rather benign questions about current treatment and attitude. Abbott
offered an arthritis cookbook (?) as a free gift if I were to return the
filled out survey. I was curious about the cookbook (what foods ...

Hello joanne,
Let's start a new thread for your posting that ended up in bubbles.
Hi and welcome to ASA.  What kind of arthritis do you  have/  how long
have you been diasgnosed?  This is a great group and you will find all

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Hi - I would like some feedback please:
My mother has gone down the private path, mainly to avoid waiting too
long, to sort out her knee pains...
First she was given a small proceedure a sort of 'hoovering out' of

How many of you use these or have used them?
Did they work for you?   How effective do you think they are over all?
Do they just relieve the pain on the area you put the patch, and don't
leave you with any drowsy feeling or drugged up feeling like oral pain

Could you please repost the link to your blog?   I can't seem to find it
and wanted to do some more reading if you don't mind.
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Jim went down to see her today. About 2 hrs later they took her to hospital,
no pulse, no breathing, swollen stomach.
She is now in coma, and they just brought her back from the scan to see what
is going on with her tummy and put her in ICU.

I have a brace (very short, closes with velcro) to wear for about two weeks,
and I do need it,  That wrist is very weak and a little sore though it
wasn't my wrist that was broken.
Kate, I have a scrip for PT so I'm going to see what I can get done about