OT-Monday Daily Chat for Oct 29th | Arthritis Information

Please keep Shannon and her family in your hearts and prayers today. 

Right now it is a very sunny 55 degrees.  It is a little windy though.  The air smells like fall today and I just love it!  Like Link said…the cold weather is coming tho!  I am so happy to have butt warmers in our new car lol.  I told Danny that when he starts the car this winter before we go anywhere he has to turn my seat on too lol. 

I am sad to say that I have had to cancel and reschedule my infusion for Wednesday.  I woke up with a fever this morning.  I do not know if it is from the laryngitis that is hanging on forever or if it is from being out of control and it is a flare fever.  I talked it over with Danny and we both felt that I should cancel.  I am waiting for my RN at the doc office to call me back on when my infusion will be rescheduled to.  This laryngitis just will not go away.  I still do not have much of a voice.  It did stop fading at the end of a couple of sentences, but that is about all it has recovered.  I do not shake viruses or infections very easily, but I was holding out hope that I would have shaken this in time for my infusion.  I really think I just need one more week and I will be fine. 

Tomorrow is Danny’s first Smoking Cessation class!!!  We find out then when he gets Chantix.  I am planning on quitting with him but will only be using the patch as I have done before.  We are ready for this and talk a lot about it.  It will be rough the first few weeks, but we will make it through!!  It will help that we are quitting together and we will have each other for support.  I do worry when he is at work since you can smoke in the shop.  That is where he does most of his smoking.  One of our friends that he works with does not smoke and he has been assigned as Danny’s non smoking support buddy.  I have to find something new to do with my hands since I do not think I will be able to crochet.  I think I am going to send Danny for some new coloring books.  I have plenty of colors, markers, and paints to keep my hands busy and that is also something I can do in bed. If you guys have any other suggestions for things I can do with my hands but still be on bed rest, please post them.  I would really appreciate it!!  I like to smoke when I am online so I may be scarce for a week or so, just until I can get over that hump of wanting to smoke while I am sitting at the computer.  I will put up all of the ashtrays and there will be no smoking in our house until I feel Danny is comfortable enough with being around that.   Until then, our smoking friends will be given an ashtray and shoo’d outside on the balcony to smoke.

Are you ready for some foooooooooooootbaaaaaaaaaaaall!!!!!  Yes folks, the Packers play against the Broncos for Monday Night Football tonight!!!  GO PACKERS!!!  It should be a very good game tonight!!!  Wooohoo!!  I am a good sport and may both teams play to the best of their abilities!!! 

Think I will go wander the board for a few and see what else is going on.  I think I am going to start a thread on naming 1 or 2 positive things that have happened in your life since you were diagnosed with RA. 

Liz,

I like that idea for a thread! You should do it!

Good afternoon everyone!  I have finally dragged myself out of bed!!  I was up once but went back to bed as I just could not keep my eyes open lol.  I hope everyone is having a good day!! 

Please keep Shannon and her family in your hearts and prayers today. 

Right now it is a very sunny 55 degrees.  It is a little windy though.  The air smells like fall today and I just love it!  Like Link said…the cold weather is coming tho!  I am so happy to have butt warmers in our new car lol.  I told Danny that when he starts the car this winter before we go anywhere he has to turn my seat on too lol. 

I am sad to say that I have had to cancel and reschedule my infusion for Wednesday.  I woke up with a fever this morning.  I do not know if it is from the laryngitis that is hanging on forever or if it is from being out of control and it is a flare fever.  I talked it over with Danny and we both felt that I should cancel.  I am waiting for my RN at the doc office to call me back on when my infusion will be rescheduled to.  This laryngitis just will not go away.  I still do not have much of a voice.  It did stop fading at the end of a couple of sentences, but that is about all it has recovered.  I do not shake viruses or infections very easily, but I was holding out hope that I would have shaken this in time for my infusion.  I really think I just need one more week and I will be fine. 

Tomorrow is Danny’s first Smoking Cessation class!!!  We find out then when he gets Chantix.  I am planning on quitting with him but will only be using the patch as I have done before.  We are ready for this and talk a lot about it.  It will be rough the first few weeks, but we will make it through!!  It will help that we are quitting together and we will have each other for support.  I do worry when he is at work since you can smoke in the shop.  That is where he does most of his smoking.  One of our friends that he works with does not smoke and he has been assigned as Danny’s non smoking support buddy.  I have to find something new to do with my hands since I do not think I will be able to crochet.  I think I am going to send Danny for some new coloring books.  I have plenty of colors, markers, and paints to keep my hands busy and that is also something I can do in bed. If you guys have any other suggestions for things I can do with my hands but still be on bed rest, please post them.  I would really appreciate it!!  I like to smoke when I am online so I may be scarce for a week or so, just until I can get over that hump of wanting to smoke while I am sitting at the computer.  I will put up all of the ashtrays and there will be no smoking in our house until I feel Danny is comfortable enough with being around that.   Until then, our smoking friends will be given an ashtray and shoo’d outside on the balcony to smoke.

Are you ready for some foooooooooooootbaaaaaaaaaaaall!!!!!  Yes folks, the Packers play against the Broncos for Monday Night Football tonight!!!  GO PACKERS!!!  It should be a very good game tonight!!!  Wooohoo!!  I am a good sport and may both teams play to the best of their abilities!!! 

Think I will go wander the board for a few and see what else is going on.  I think I am going to start a thread on naming 1 or 2 positive things that have happened in your life since you were diagnosed with RA. 

And a big pat on the back for me, please.  Yes, today I increased my run by a mile, to make it 21/2, actually, just over. < =text/>_popupControl();

OMG!!!!  There are other Packers fans here besides me!!!  I can’t believe it!!!  I am going to watch the game tonight and pray I do not fall asleep during it.  I am going to lay down when I am done posting this and try to take a little nap.  I seem to get a little tired right at this time of the day.  Which really bites because the girls are home school and I am trying to spend time with them.  But they would rather have me rest anyways. 

Oh Danny and I are bound and determined to quit.  We have just been waiting for his smoking cessation classes to begin at work since they are giving the employees Chantix.  He will for sure need that.  I can do it with just the patch.  I have my straws and I’m ready to go!  He has no choice but to quit since we found out he has COPD.  I would like him around for a long time.  He wants to be around for a long time.  He has an 80% recovery and improvement rate from the COPD after he quits smoking.  Thank you to everyone for the well wishes on us quitting!!! 

Congrats Link on adding another mile to your run!!  That is great!! 

Well, our landlord has finally started to do repairs around here!  They had someone working on our garage today replacing all the dry rot.  Now maybe I can talk her into starting to do repairs on the *inside* of the house too!  The girls have informed me that not only is there mold in my bathroom (*nothing* has worked on it to get rid of it including Killz) that some of the basement walls are moldy also.  The people downstairs had called the city inspectors on them last year and that was one of the things that was supposed to have been taken care of.  They must have just used bleach water and the mold came back.  I *still* need an exhaust fan put in my bathroom and that supposedly was going to be done back around Easter.  It is going to be too cold soon to shower with the bathroom window open lol. 

Mmmm I want cake. Think I will hunt down the chef of the house and have her make me cake with vanilla frosting.  Stupid pred!! 

Evening Everyone!

I went to pick up my Zyrtec and well... I was not about to pay .47!! Medicaid would not cover it, and I guess BC/BS just sucks

So, when I call tomorrow for an update of my PA's I will inform them I need something else other than zyrtec.

Oh she did not RX me Combunox like I suggested, instead she RXed me Lortab 10!

Welp, hope everyone has a good evening!

"swmbo" = she who must be obeyed.

Not only does Danny have COPD, you have asthma!  Think how happy your lungs will be to finally not be filled constantly with poisonous, acrid smoke.  Mold is nothing compared to the stuff you have chosen to put in there, chickadee!