FIRST-
Im
back, surgery took 45minutes. they did local and general anesthesia...
Yuk IV's... took two sticks but they got me finally. The DDS did! Go
Doc! Impressed! tooth number was 18.. rip. hashah.. .. they broke it up
.. cleaned out infection.. back on MORE clinomycin! YUK!! told them i
was allergic to penicillian and they tried to give me amoxcillin ( Read more... )

These days, its all about shooting up with JRA.... some of my young adult friends taking their RA drugs LOL


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 I postulate several reasons as to why many do not successfully transfer to adult rheumatologist from expereince and observation. Of course, the research would have to be done to confirm.

1- Loss of insurance that covered the child now that s/he is an adult and can't get it due to preexisting conditions, costs, etc.

2- Dealing with the grief of ( Read more... )

Fortunately JRA doesn't kill often but it can.. it's sad. I know of a few people that have died from it. A 14 year old from SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), and two young adults from amylodosis... I know of one young lady with Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis type) that will die if she hasn't already. She almost has a few times and last time we ( Read more... )

ER was long ... the triage nurse wasn't helpful.... she made me feel dumb for coming in and I cried but glad I stayed ( Read more... )

so Rheumatologist is thinking back to this again...

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well as always.. I havent posted forever in a day here. I have been really tired and overwhelmed by a lot ( Read more... )

I have really neglected this place.. mostly due to tiredness, laziness, etc ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in soooooo long that I'm suprised that my journal still exists!!

Life is just THAT busy, crazy and when I do have time to post, I don't have the motivation too! How lazy is that? Ha. Oh well, better late than never I suppose.

I'm still pretty active in the cyberspace world and just discovered a list serve for parents of children ( Read more... )