Donna asked:

I've received e-mail within the last 2 days.

Sorry these are so late, I forgot I didn't post them. Happy Birthday to you
all and happy birthday to the belated ones, please forgive me.
July
7/1 Renee

I saw the surgeon who removed the gall bladder and he says that it was
really badly inflamed and he couldn't understand why I hadn't done
anything about it years before.  I explained that with the OA and the RA
something always hurt and I was always taking something for it so ...

Harv replied to Gloria:

When I developed an itch while on Remicade, my rheumy wrote an RX

This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that
I didn't.  These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with
straight answers
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants

OK, today was a day of doctors.   Saw my lung doctor this morning, saw
the RD this afternoon, and saw the orthopedic hand specialist this
afternoon as well.
Thankfully my RD was willing to inject both my knees as they were beyond

Dear Colleagues and friends
The University of Minho, in Portugal and Dare Institute in Cambridge,
MA are inviting potential participants from various backgrounds for an
online study on how adults differ in their reasoning about aging and

Just wondering if any of you get what I term "flares"?
I had a fun day and a some-what strenuous day, last Friday, I thought
on Saturday, I would be sore, but I was not.  Come Sunday and Monday,
I ached all over, even my teeth ached.  I woke up Saturday night with

Just a question. I know this is a support group and the common theme that
keeps us here is the ravages of this damn disease called arthritis.
Okay, I also know that I have enjoyed the political threads and the ensuing
jousting.

Squirrely Jo wrote to Joe:

You are welcome.
I forgot to mention that the earliest calendars consisted of 10 months.

Well, I think I'm about back to where I was when we tried going down to
20mg.  I have to stay at this level of 30mg for one week and make sure I am
stable again.  Then I try 25mg.  If that gives me a problem, back to 30 and
stabilize and then try 27-1/2mg.  I don't know why I'm ...

I am soo excited- I've been able to decrease pred from 10 mg to 7.5 mg
and only a little increase in pain! This is the first time in years
I've been below 10. My next step is to 5 mg...Kate R

Hoping and praying that all of our canadian friends are safe and sound
after the bad weather that moved through several areas of canada today,
including several tornados!
Canadian friends please check in and let us know that you are ok if you

Monty, what does PUFA stand for?? Thanks, Nel