BYC Café

[CLSranch]

I'll have to make the 5hr round trip on Friday for a physical examination. More of my favorite thing(needles!!)

I would take 2 dozen needles over driving heck anywhere that took 5 or even 3 hrs. It took me a year and a half longer than it should have to get a Rx and glasses because I didn't want to make the drive. An hour and a half each way. It would've been all day in town, a big town, noooooo.

See I live with the arthritis a few kinds but not RA. Thank my lucky star's it is horrific.

I found out mine was RA oddly from taking allergy meds. I don't know why they are connected but they are. I spent one fall in CO and left at hallowen when I was 19 and could give you a 3 day heads up on the snow. I used to take osteo bi-flex and it helped then it'd get warm and I'd lay off then it'd get cold and I'd remember. After the allergy meds I noticed that I didn't hurt so bad when it cooled off.
Odd I know but it proven they are related and I didn't have to take 3 horse pills and a dozen or more ibuprofen every day.

 

[pennyJo1960]

See I am fortunate that way I have old age arthritis, osteo arthritis. Was diagnosed back 40 years ago ankylosing arthritis... I take my tramadol to ride to Tumwater in the car and back

 

[Meg-in-MT]

I would take 2 dozen needles over driving heck anywhere that took 5 or even 3 hrs. It took me a year and a half longer than it should have to get a Rx and glasses because I didn't want to make the drive. An hour and a half each way. It would've been all day in town, a big town, noooooo.

I found out mine was RA oddly from taking allergy meds. I don't know why they are connected but they are. I spent one fall in CO and left at hallowen when I was 19 and could give you a 3 day heads up on the snow. I used to take osteo bi-flex and it helped then it'd get warm and I'd lay off then it'd get cold and I'd remember. After the allergy meds I noticed that I didn't hurt so bad when it cooled off.
Odd I know but it proven they are related and I didn't have to take 3 horse pills and a dozen or more ibuprofen every day.

I don't care for traveling either. Anymore, it's not as bad if my husband drives because I can adjust in my seat. But the 20 min drive to work is pretty painful on my hip, so we'll see how this goes. I don't have a lot of options here, unfortunately.

Do you take anything for your RA now?

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

We've got a fire in the stove. The house cooled off over night and I'm going to get the chill off it and burn a low fire for the rainy cooler day in store.

I get my first jab today.
The State opened up eligibility to 50+. I kept working the on-line system and kept scheduling the closest date that worked for me then went back in hoping to snap up an even earlier cancelation. You had to be quick because if you didn't click that button fast, you'd lose the earlier appointment.
Now I'll be fully vaccinated by the time DH and I go on vacation in May.

 

[Sally PB]

Hubby and I registered on Monday. Who knows when we'll get "the call." I told hubby that I can't go to NC to see his family if I have un-integrated chicks, and he understood. So we either have to go before June, or wait until September. Or he can go by himself any time. Them coming here is not an option.

Speaking of arthritis, I know breaking my wrist got that started in some of the fingers on that hand. As I told my doctor, one of my knuckles is "spreading like a middle-aged woman's waistline."

I read a great quote somewhere: "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. Beautiful old people are works of art." I always thought my Grandma was beautiful, and that made me think of her as a work of art. Bumpy knuckles, big nose, and all.

 

[aart]

As I told my doctor, one of my knuckles is "spreading like a middle-aged woman's waistline."

The 'Thickening'.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks DL - good news on the vaccination.

 

[cheepteach]

good morning!! turned on Eden Pure heater to dispel the damp---holding off on wood stove

 

[sourland]

Windows are closed and heat is on - damp is outside.

 

[CLSranch]

Good morning cafe. Thanks for the coffee DL and congrats on the shots. I haven't let the wood stove stop yet. It's hit over 70 a few different days. I'm extremely cold natured.

Do you take anything for your RA now?

I keep a 500 count bottle of ibuprofen in the truck or job box, in the camper and in the house, for the occasional flare up. Osteo bi-flex or some other glucosamine product when it sticks around and most importantly (at least when I'm working steady) for the arthritis and the bulging disc in my back at least one power-ade a day.