How have you been doing Owiemom? I hope things are going a bit better for you.
The ablation I had did not work, so now I need a full hysterectomy. I am trying to put that off until the beginning of Jan. My gyn is due to have a baby end of Jan, beginning of Feb so we have to try to squeeze it in beforehand. I'm just hoping I can keep my jobs past Christmas. (I was hired for christmas help at both) They both seem to like me, and as hard as it is with my RA, Lupus, Sjogren's, neuropathy, etc. It keeps me from wallowing in my pain and I actually forget about it when I am helping other people. Of course later I pay for it dearly. It takes a great deal of time to go to sleep because of the pain, but I take one day at a time and dont look ahead on my calendar.
It is very hard on my family. Nobody wants to cook when I am not here so they end up eating cereal or fast food which we gave up years and years ago. I need to use the crockpot more often, but to be honest, I am in so much pain when I finally get off at night after working both places, I dont feel like stopping at the store. No mattter what time I get off work, I come home and go straight to bed, sometimes as early as 4pm, lol. My poor family....
I am also still waiting to hear from the surgeon who is going to do my hip surgery. I think I will wait now until spring because of the snow, ice we get.
We've had something very sad and scary happen in our family. A few weeks ago, my eldest son who is going into the Air Force in Jan. started bleeding rectally. not just a bit but enough that it is soaking thru all his clothes. We got him to the doctor and they did all kinds of blood work and he was just scoped. They think it could be Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. We are praying it is neither, because it would make him ineligable to go to bootcamp. We only have 6 more weeks to figure this out. His appt is next week to go over the results of all his tests.
I'm sorry to have written a novel here.... I hope and pray everyone is doing better these days. I am sorry I havent been around much to post, but I think of you all daily and are in my prayers. Now is a time for peace and understanding. It takes minimal effort to smile at a stranger or say thank you to people and wish them a great day/evening. We are here to make eachother's lives a bit better, not worse.
gentle hugs to all
Deb
Oh and I almost forgot to say that it has been 5 weeks since I stopped prednisone! I never thought I would be able to get off it.