It looks like it finally happened. I felt awful on Sunday. Almost as bad as I felt after radiation for breast cancer (at 37) when I went through massive testing to find out why I felt so darn bad, was so tired and my joints hurt.
Yesterday, I went to the doctor and she felt nodules in my fingers. So I finally have an answer, I guess. Gallons of blood were drawn today, but it doesn't matter because I meet the RA criteria without it. I'm relieved in a way, scared in a way, and pissed in a big way.
The punchline is that I just moved to New Mexico and started skiing. I'm not bad for being 47 and new to the sport, and I have no intentions of giving it up unless they make me. It's low impact for me as I'm not exactly a mogul skiier, and I seem to feel better when I ski, except it makes my hands hurt.
I'm just whining. I actually feel like I want to start inline skating again and that it might help my knees and that maybe, just maybe, it will help me stop limping. Like skiing, it builds the quads, which takes stress off the knees.
Damn.
Wow, you go.
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