"YABBER-LINER" - ALL ABOARD

What are little blue pills?


Hey Iz. I think that 's good advice. But I just bet you are under more stress than you know. You probably have learned to manage it somewhat - but the body is rebelling. ((Izzie)) Take care hun.

I have been at school. I got the dang door done but now I have so much to do here and I have baseball too. Crud.

Hugs y'all.
mis

Morning crew. Good to know you had some sleep Izzie and feeling a little better. Watching the food intake is a bummer but under the circumstances you have no other option.

Friday morning here and Mrs.B is getting ready taking me shopping for the weekend. Won't let me go by myself after the last episode when I doubled the shopping list

Dear mismi you seem a busy girl, how do you cram some much work in one day? You take care too!

We have a long weekend coming up, Monday is a public holiday, all in honour of a horse race, can you believe it? I'll be watching the cricket, New Zealand v Australia, much more interesting.

Waves to all.

Healing thoughts to Izz aka Isambard.

Solomon Binding

Ahh Dutchy - I waste a lot of my time so I have to cram a whole lot to do in just a little bitty bit of time. You sweet thang you. Hugs.

I have white chicken chili on the stove and it is too spicy. Burning my lips...I am pretty sure the boys are going to turn their nose up at it also. Oh well.

Have a good day Dutchy - and those down under...

To the rest of you - rest well..sweet dreams...
mis

Morning Crew

minus 6 and brrrrrrrr... sun is beaming and it's an incredibly beautiful day

off to the hospital in a bit - will see y'all later

have good day's everyone
x

Thinking about you, Iz. And worrying too. Don't tell me not to worry. I'm gonna worry anyway. It might as well be about you.

Hope all goes well.

Cross-Atlantic hug. (())

I hope you'll be beaming like the sun izzie when you come out of hospital, thinking of you. ((((Izzie))))

prayers with you dear...hope all goes well with you..
(((izzie)))

Roberta's right...of course we'll worry. Praying they find you some relief. Hugs hun. Let us know when you can. ((Izzie))

Stopping by to send some posivibes towards England.

((( Iz )))

Hey hey

Saw the rheumatologist today - he is quite pleased with my joints but says he can't help me much with the tummy - he told me off for not having blood tests done each month like I'm supposed to because of the meds I take (ok, so i missed a couple months), tsk tsk, he's going to tell my doc off too (oops) - he said perhaps I should go talk with a dietician and was a little surprised this hadn't been considered before, but doesn't know if we have such resources in this area (!)- he told me that I must not eat British chocolate, but to get some expensive "real" dark chocolate!!!!!

We talked about the cyclical stuff - you know, one thing improves a little but then something else comes along with throws all it all off course again, and so on and so on ... we also talked about the different meds I am on and how this plays a part in it... we also talked about R-boy and he reckons that no matter how much I try not to stress, with the circumstances he can't see how I can't not worry, I'm his mother whether he is with me or not.

Took x-rays of my hands and feet and will compare them to the ones taken in Dec08 - on the whole, RA/SLE-wise - he was quite positive and asked me to take that positive and put it with all the others in my life - I told him I have many positives.

I then took me into town (I obviously put my brave head on this morning) and I bought me something - which will prolly stay in the bag for a while - but I'm hoping I won't return it (which would mean having to go back into town ) I must've been in town for at least an hour, and went to the bank and to a couple of shops. Fortunately, didn't see anyone I knew (which would have thrown me badly) so, that was all good.

I came home and found some flowers on my doorstep from a friend so, that was actually happy and made me smile.

It is the most glorious day outside - the weather is simply perfect - huge blue sky, not a cloud in sight and the sun is shining, lots of birds about and my babbling brook (ah, Babbling) is trickling along by. I have just had some toast and no matter whether my tummy complains or not (hmmmm)- I am going out into the garden and do some tidying up (yep, don't all fall over at once - I am going to do the garden!)

I have some school work to do just quickly, then I will be Mz WeedyPuller.

Thank you all for thinking of me - thank you...

I do feel much less pathetic today - I just need to quit whining and get on with it.

x

((Izzie)) dark chocolate is yummy. And good for you IN SMALL AMOUNTS sister.

Well...the visit sounds positive. And he is right about R. Not sure what the solution is to relieve the stress from that...you know my thoughts are with you.

Have a great day. I am lugging my sore muscles up to the shower and going to work.

Hugs to you all,
mis

hmm take care izzie..go by th docs waords..if nythng wud make it easier..tests..diet or rest..pls take good care..i wish u thought th garden could wait..really dnt want u to strain urself..i knw..evven i cnt see how u cant stay frm worrying..stil watever u cn..pls take care..to lessen th pain as much as possible

Izzie, Glad to see you smiling in a virtual sort of way. If you feel like whining, whine. It's a release. You can "get on with it" and whine at the same time. It's kinda like being ambidextrous.

Iz, have to side with the doctor re: blood tests. It sounds like you're taking some pretty heavy duty medications and they're bound to have an effect on your entire system. My mother in law had RA and it was quite the balancing act to treat her symptoms without upsetting her digestive system. (Could this be a holdover from the flu though? Were you on antibiotics for that? Maybe killed off all the good bacteria?)



(Geez, I whine all the time. I could whine for England if you'd have me "Too much snow! Hate my job!" Then go shovel the driveway so I can leave for work.)

Hope you're enjoying the sunshine. I'm heading out into beautiful balmy above freezing temperatures later. A gorgeous lamb-like day here.

missing ye captain.. want u up nd running by august remember? barry..pull her along wnt ye?

Hey hey

all is k'ish here thankee... went out in the garden and did a bunch of stuff - then had a quick lay down for half an hour

tummy is hmmmmm... so so (which is 100% better than yesterday but not 100%!)

yep TC - meds could well be playing a part in all of this - the enterologist said that also. I take methotrexate for RA/SLE plus all t'others

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methotrexate

not a 'good' med BUT it does work for me

I did have two lots of antibiotics with that flu but I think I was alright after that - this started really flaring up after Christmas and has just been getting worse as the weeks went on - but, like other flares, it's just that thing of not knowing how long it's gonna hurt for. My joints are doing just fine, the occasional twinges but no real probs. I can actually cope with that pain for the most part... can't cope with this nonsense tho. Really, just can't deal with it.

I will get focused about the blood tests - he actually did quite a hard hitting talk - along the lines of he is the doctor and these meds can be dangerous... so therefore it doesn't make him a doctor if I get ill because I haven't had the blood tests to check on my internal organs! Okaaaaaaaaaaay... of course, he's quite right <wrist slapped> So, won't talk about that again, will do as I oughta.


anyhoo, thanku all - I will continue to whine and get on with it (hadn't thought about it in that way - doing one or other - can do both! Compartmentalising!)



so........... I must tell y'all that S-boy and I had a fit of the giggles earlier - so he's doing Jazz in music at school...

well - this is what we were watching - and we were crying with laughter - just love this video, haven't watched it in an eon or two



he tried to skip with arms like King Louie...so wasn't gonna work!


Hope all have a good day and warming up for the weekend


Gonna be a gorgeous weekend here so... looking forward to that. Will see Tulip tomorrow - she's having her thumb cryo'd tomorrow - ack - so will be popping over there at some stage too.


((((Bethie)))) thinking of you and Hbg.


FQsis - hope you had a FAB WEDDING .... not long 'til South Africa... oh.... LOVE YOU SIS.

x

So, how does that work? Maybe I can get my doctor to prescribe chocolate if I come up with the right story.

Hey Rog - weeeeeeellllllll, apparently our British chocolate here is not actually chocolate - it's all bad stuff (doesn't taste bad at all) ... but "real" dark chocolate can apparently be good for you... it's all in the bean - so says he...

so since you asked I googled dark chocolate and found this...
Dark chocolate health benefits

The consumption of high-cacao-content chocolate has been correlated with positive health benefits from flavonol antioxidants derived from the ground and fermented cocoa seeds of Theobroma cacao.[12]

Dark chocolate may transiently improve DNA resistance to oxidative stress, probably for flavonoid kinetics.[13].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types_of_chocolate#Dark_chocolate_health_benefits


How cool would that be to be prescribed chocolate? He did tell me it was unlikely I'd enjoy it, but it would help with the chocolate craving after I take my z pills.

I'm attempting now to be a chocolate free house (poor S-boy) - tho I do have lots of Rich Tea Biscuits (fat free-ish)

GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS DAY..... sun shining and warm (ish)... little fella (he slept 11 hours ) is doing car washing and Ima in the garden - bird feeders to fill and such like and so forth

Going over to Tulips later so will see ya'll in a bit.

Have a wonderful weekend crew