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More Coffee....BRB

The university is closed but is supposed to open at noon...I don't think that is going to happen.   The temperature is 20 degrees and we are covered in snow and ice and our roads are all closed into the city.   Road crews have plowed and plowed but treated the roads but the melting refreezes so the mess is just crazy.   We are the South and are not equipped for bad weather.  

Today is another writing day for me.   My sweet husband is working from home too and he said, come into the office and work with me and I said no way.  You talk to much.  So, I am sitting in front of the TV working on a journal article and hoping I can keep the cats off of me long enough to get a good rough draft or at least get a good introduction started. LOL. 

I am trying my best to eat the really good raw vegetables and fruit and drink the water and only eat soups...moving right along.   Food, who would have thought that the very thing we need to live could be the enemy.  

I hope you all have a good day and for those struggling, please remember that we are all here and are all good listeners....let us hear it and let us give you our take on the solution or at least offer support.   

Good morning Jeannie....nice to see you start the thread today.

You are right...you and I do share a lot of the same pain. I just wi**** would move on to somewhere else. the weather changes are killing me. 5 degrees today and about 40 tomorrow. It keeps making such drastic changes!! The fatigue is so frustrating. My doctor said this has been the worst winter for Fibromyalgia and Arthritis they have ever seem. I believe that!!

I am doing much better with my eating. I can tell the difference in how I feel. I lost 5 pounds last week and hope I lose more when I weigh in on Monday. 

I have a meeting I need to go to this afternoon. It is right here where I live, thank goodness. I have an Advanced Directive but it is old. I want to update it today. I know the lady that is doing the presentation. Her husband was my therapist for many years. He was amazing. How he got me through all that had happened to me I don't know. He was so patient and kind. 

I need to go for now....I have been reading all the posts every day...I just haven't the energy to reply. I will try to do better later this afternoon.

Have a peaceful day!!!

Prayers for all of our amazing OFF Family and their families.

Much love and bunches of hugs to all.....connie d

Connie,

Pain is exhausting, so when you hurt and try to live with it, like so many of us do, exhaustion does take over.   Rest, drink water, take the medications...my rheumatologists said for me to take naps and rest when I am in a flare up and he said that if I over do it, I will pay; don't over do it...take it easy and let your body get over this awful flare.  

Hi Jeannie and Connie and my OFF family:

Yesterday, Richard fell. He's fine today. Today, it was my turn to fall. I was in the kitchen when someone knocked on the door. Went to the door, it was the postman. So got my packages, started back to the kitchen. Tripped over my reacher that was sitting out by my magazine rack and paper basket ... it was sticking out and up a bit. I tried to catch myself on the dining room table so I wouldn't fall, but all I did was move the table and down I went. Hit my right knee on the kitchen floor (well, both knees but the left one, hit the carpet and doesn't hurt). The right knee is quite bruised and swollen and as I tried to get, yelled for Richard, it burned so much. Don't know what caused that. Took me a while to get up because I was pushing up with my arms and my left knee. Had to finally use my right knee too even though it hurt like hell. After all that, I got my coffee, protein bar, water and icepack and sat down. Took a vicodin and iced, elevated. Called in sick right away. I'm loopy from the pain and the painkiller. It's a little better until I move again. I've been icing on and off since I hurt it. If it's still like this tomorrow, I'll go to my ortho doc's urgent care. Right now, I just want to stay home and wait and see. 

So we figure we got about 7-8 inches. Newspaper said 7 inches of snow last night; Maybe about another inch or so after that. Richard went out to Walgreens to pick up my prescriptions from yesterday and get some stuff he needed. Sun is shining today but it's cold. 

So last night I had lots of pain and today I've added some more. I don't think I have anymore to add.

I think I need a nap.

Have a good day.

Eileen,

I hope you didn't do damage to your knees and your shoulders.  OMG...falling is one of my biggest fears.   I would take off a couple of days and keep the ice rotations on your joints.  

Tried to post yesterday but pas was acting up. Spent more time trying to correct errorscç. Good wishes to eveyone ......get well and stay well....and stop falling!! I'm busy taking care of snow and ice removal.... Jim is not well enough to do it.... He sees doctor next Wednesday and I think they may admit him.... He is full of fluid in his abdomen...so much so that it's pressing on his diaphragm and he is having trouble breathing. Should go to ER but he is stubborn. Also lsegs are full of fluid and has edema. So he suffers.....and not in silence! Like I said...stubborn!!

Hi, My sister and I had to stop in Shepardsville Ky. The storm got us!!! 18 inches of snow and drift. We got out if there today around 1230. We should be in Lansing Mi around 6pm.

I'll be in Chicago sometime tomorrow.

I65 is still closed going south by Elizabethtown. 

Hope all are doing well.

Carla

Carla,

Stay out of that nasty snow. LOL.  I cannot even imagine 18 inches of snow...I cry when we have four inches.   Keep warm.

Hello everyone,

Just popped on to say Hi!  Dinner is almost ready.  I'm making a roasted chicken breast, roasted sweet potatoes and a spinach/strawberry/avocado salad.  I hope Butch will eat some of it.  Oh, and some black cherry jello for his dessert.

We went to the doctor and he gave me a cortisone shot in my shoulder.  Said if it doesn't improve over the next 2-3 weeks to come back and we'll do x-rays and see what else might be needed.  He also increased my prozac from 20 mg a day to 40 mg a day.  I hope that helps too!  I've been so irritable and snappy lately and I don't want to be that way.

I'll check back later this evening and maybe post a little more.

Love y'all!