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For those of you who may be interested, posted here is a x-ray with dye contrast photo of the epidural needle in my lumbar spinal dura that my anesthesiologist placed there. I had this injection the first week of April and was honestly petrified to have the procedure done. With everything I have had done [...]

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“So that happened” is one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite movies, “State And Main”. If you’re ever in the mood for a hilarious movie with a good cast, check it out or, google it. As my youngest son Matt likes to say when you ask him a question, “here, let me [...]

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My absence as of late has not been due to a busy schedule, quiet the opposite. Instead I have been experiencing the darker side of my Fibromyalgia, a disease I’ve had for over 20 years. It started quite some time ago when I began experiencing the unpleasant side effects of one of the newer drugs [...]

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Well sort of anyway….I couldn’t help but take a photo of these products when I saw them them on the shelf other day. Now if he just had some of the sales profit….

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Finally an answer. After years of grinding knee pain, stiffness and my knee giving out for no apparent reason my rheumatologist ordered an MRI. The results showed Osteoarthritis, which I honestly didn’t expect. I thought it would be rheumatoid arthritis. Since there is nothing one can really do that I’m not already doing, the immediate [...]

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My neuron’s are firing… My brain cell’s are tiring… I’m really not faking… My Fibro’s a cranking. My joints are

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Many people know very little about Fibromyalgia, and even fewer probably know that it has a long list of symptoms. I am among the many I am sure who have this horrid disease, to have a lot of those annoying symptoms. One of the most frustrating symptoms is being hypersensitive and startling easily (jumpiness). If [...]

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It’s always sad to talk about those we love who have passed away, whether recent or further back in time. It is within this framework of emotions that I want to express my grief over the passing of a family member, John Laxalt. John and his wonderful wife Candy were high school

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Nothing makes me want to blog more than not being able to include photos with my random probably boring weekly news. My sweet husband is working on this recent problem with miniscule inching closer results. Questions to the web host resulted in answers that weren’t surprising: the problem isn’t on their end. Searches on the word press [...]

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Okay, OK, I will admit that the lack of updates lately has been more due to the fact that I’m struggling with my health again than just that we are unable to include photos with each post. It’s been well over a month now that I had to go off the methotrexate that I took [...]

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