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He arrived late last night with his special girl and sporting a fine-looking beard. Yes, it felt good to wrap my arms around him. But even better is knowing we’ll have a week to chat and catch up on news. Although our mission is for our kids to grow up and out, it is a bit stunning just how fast it all happens. (I admit, though, that there were times when the process seemed much too long!!) CP — Enjoying my son for you. "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message
news:u8211799623ob2@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Oh CP, > I am soooo jealous. I wish my son could come home for spring break. I long > to hug him. He is in law school in Vancouver. It is just too far. He also > works and can’t get time off. Enjoy your boy. > BJ-lonely in Saskatchewan
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Hi BJ and All it isn’t odd – just the relief and making sense thing I guess. tuna salad sandwiches and baked potatoes with low fat plain yoghurt on top. might add been painfully thin for sometime … so the novelty of potential weight gain will be nice as long as I don’t blow out to become the whale that eats the tuna 
popcorn is cool, got one of those machines that churns it out using hot air – great invention. what is really great is energy to play hide and seek with the kids! Sal
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HI BJ, I’m hanging in there. Been off the Prozac for a week now. Feels like part of my brain that was asleep is waking again. No depression, and I am starting to feel like myself again. Had some night sweats this week, along with joint pain. Also, I have developed a sore inside my nostril, just inside,along the cartilage. It keeps scabbing over, and will not go away. It has been there for a few weeks now. Not too painful most of the time, but my nose runs a lot, so I’m always touching it with a handkerchief. Still no results on the immunofixation. Thanks for asking! Wes – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:39:34 -0600, "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote: >Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that >haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an >update. >BJ-checking up on friends here
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Hi Wes > Excellent news! Isn’t it wonderful to find a doctor like that? My > nephrologist is the same way.
Yeah! It is actually! I went in one week from one end of the spectrum to the other with these 2 docs. Between being slapped on the wrist for being put on pred and implied that I was *exaggerating* to the other end where it was decided I was nowhere near at the level I needed to get back on track. The difference in opinions and the different treatments offered pale in comparison. I find this great doc very empowering and I am so happy to hear that your nephrologist is like that too. Makes dealing with it all just that essential little bit less hard than what it has to be. Thanks for taking the time out to reply, considering your own things you are dealing with currently Wes, very much appreciated! I hope you have a mellow day (what I think is a perfect day!) Sal
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Congratulations!!! I know I freaked when they said lupus but after the initial shock wore off and I found out that lupus was controlled these days I settled into the Dx with enthusiasm. At least they won’t be experimenting on me or acting like it was all in my head. (See, I really do have something wrong with me!) There is something very comforting knowing there is a real label for what you have and medication to treat it when it gets bad. It is such a wonderful feeling when you find a really good doctor that understands and takes the time to actually talk to you! I’m sure having the confirmation of something you already knew helps your mental state as well as the new drugs. But tuna sandwiches?????? Be careful about feeding the prednisone!!! Bev "Sal" <sally_dex…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c80f7a1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi BJ and All > reporting in … do you remember I posted a few weeks ago waiting for > specialist appoint for the diagnosis? > got bummed mega completely around by rheumy … then this week saw an > immunologist who has saved my butt at the eleventh hour. > correct diagnosis (SLE) made, appropriate treatment plan set in place, > open and direct communication and great collaboration … I just love > this guy ! (and I think he is gonna love me as a patient ! lol never > seen a doctor smile or enjoy patient teaching and patients asking > questions as much as this one ! weird but very reassuring) > in one and half hours I got all the answers I needed right now in the > universe – and some realistic treatment for my symptoms. > so currently chilling out on prednisone 50mg plaquenil 400mg and mega > tuna sandwich appetite *sigh* > for the first time in forever I feel relieved normal alive and mellow > … is this a normal response to SLE diagnosis? or just a response to > some medication that my body really needed to save itself from falling > apart? > you guys pointed me in the right direction with excellent advice and > support to get myself help and treatment that I urgently needed, god > bless you all! (and thanks for understanding my need to share this corny > long note!) > Sal
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You are so right!!! Especially when you see what has been removed from the room and added to others!!!!!!!! The place is getting messier buy the day! Bev "Andy" <a…@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:PsS9OjAs5Jg8Ew7Z@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In article <u80hk9o3nia…@corp.supernews.com>, Beverley > <pottings…@sybercom.net> wrote > [snip work] > >Still trying to clean my bedroom. > Achieving universal peace and brotherhood might be an easier task… > — > Andy [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society] > For Austrian philately <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps> > For Lupus <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/lupus> > For my other interests <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
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Busy as usual. Next week is going to be very busy!!! At some point in the next few days I will know if any of my photographs have been accepted for the art museum’s exhibit. Wed. is hubby’s start date of radiation therapy for his cancer. Wed. evening I am giving a lecture on ornamental shrubbery. Friday night is the reception for the art museum with food and live music. (Must dress nicely.) Saturday morning is the bucket brigade, fund raiser for the rescue squad. It really is fun!!! We stand in the middle of the road with our buckets and beg for donations. (Anyone in charge of weather formations please take my request for a warm but not too sunny day!) (Side note: last year a pickup came through towing a camper. They said they were just passing through so we said "well, we hope you have a very safe trip because if anything happens to you while you are here in Suffolk we will not be calling your rescue squad in Ohio". They said we were right and dropped a $20 in the bucket. We thanked them and wished them well.) And of course I never know when I will be called into work. Physically, I’m the usual "fine" but have been plagued for days with a nasty on-again-off-again headache. Still trying to clean my bedroom. Sorry you asked, BJ??? Bev "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message
news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an > update. > BJ-checking up on friends here
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Great report Bev. No, I am not sorry I asked. You do have a busy time coming up. BJ-thanking you for playing "Beverley" <pottings…@sybercom.net> wrote in message
news:u80hk9o3nia130@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Busy as usual. Next week is going to be very busy!!! > At some point in the next few days I will know if any of my photographs have > been accepted for the art museum’s exhibit. > Wed. is hubby’s start date of radiation therapy for his cancer. > Wed. evening I am giving a lecture on ornamental shrubbery. > Friday night is the reception for the art museum with food and live music. > (Must dress nicely.) > Saturday morning is the bucket brigade, fund raiser for the rescue squad. > It really is fun!!! We stand in the middle of the road with our buckets and > beg for donations. (Anyone in charge of weather formations please take my > request for a warm but not too sunny day!) (Side note: last year a pickup > came through towing a camper. They said they were just passing through so we > said "well, we hope you have a very safe trip because if anything happens to > you while you are here in Suffolk we will not be calling your rescue squad > in Ohio". They said we were right and dropped a $20 in the bucket. We > thanked them and wished them well.) > And of course I never know when I will be called into work. > Physically, I’m the usual "fine" but have been plagued for days with a nasty > on-again-off-again headache. > Still trying to clean my bedroom. > Sorry you asked, BJ??? > Bev > "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message > news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… > > Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many > that > > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave > an > > update. > > BJ-checking up on friends here
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In article <8ke08u4tiv5mlovlif4j1shjg4p863f…@4ax.com>, KCat <kcdoc…@ghg.net> wrote: >Sometimes Lee, you just can’t help people.
One of the other old posters just reminded me that the problem child of the moment did the same self-destruct routine a couple years ago. Seems to be a cycle. The ones that frighten me are the folks that send my husband email. He’s the moderator for sci.space.tech, and he gets some REAL nutters. Like the one he actually called up their university and asked if *anyone* had checked in on this poor soul, because they obviously needed help. I’ve been on the net so many years that I usually just shrug off this type of thing, unless it’s someone I know personally. I have at least been behaving myself and not feeding the flames. Some people just beg to be messed with, but I try not to do that online in the support groups. — Lee M.Thompson-Herbert l…@retro.com KoX 1995, SP4 Head Muso, White Rats Morris Member, Knights of Xenu (1995). Chaos Monger and Jill of All Trades. "A head-on collision between Morticia Adams and Martha Stewart"
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In article <a5ppqn$ml…@gw.retro.com>, Lee Thompson-Herbert <l…@gw.retro.com> wrote [] >The ones that frighten me are the folks that send my husband >email. He’s the moderator for sci.space.tech, and he gets some REAL nutters.
At least with a text group, you can’t send postings in green ink — Andy [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society] For Austrian philately <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps> For Lupus <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/lupus> For my other interests <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
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In article <u80hk9o3nia…@corp.supernews.com>, Beverley <pottings…@sybercom.net> wrote [snip work] >Still trying to clean my bedroom.
Achieving universal peace and brotherhood might be an easier task… — Andy [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society] For Austrian philately <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps> For Lupus <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/lupus> For my other interests <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
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Hi BJ and All reporting in … do you remember I posted a few weeks ago waiting for specialist appoint for the diagnosis? got bummed mega completely around by rheumy … then this week saw an immunologist who has saved my butt at the eleventh hour. correct diagnosis (SLE) made, appropriate treatment plan set in place, open and direct communication and great collaboration … I just love this guy ! (and I think he is gonna love me as a patient ! lol never seen a doctor smile or enjoy patient teaching and patients asking questions as much as this one ! weird but very reassuring) in one and half hours I got all the answers I needed right now in the universe – and some realistic treatment for my symptoms. so currently chilling out on prednisone 50mg plaquenil 400mg and mega tuna sandwich appetite *sigh* for the first time in forever I feel relieved normal alive and mellow … is this a normal response to SLE diagnosis? or just a response to some medication that my body really needed to save itself from falling apart? you guys pointed me in the right direction with excellent advice and support to get myself help and treatment that I urgently needed, god bless you all! (and thanks for understanding my need to share this corny long note!) Sal
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Hi Sal, That is great news. I guess that sounds like an odd thing to say. SLE is not great news, but you have it, so you need a diagnosis. Well, you know what I mean. It is a relief to know. I reacted much as you have to the diagnosis. I knew I was in big trouble, so I felt better just giving it a name. It sounds like you have a great doctor. I am glad that you found us, and that it has all worked out for you. So it is tuna sandwiches, is it? With me it is popcorn. Mind you, I am a bit weird anyway. Keep well, and keep in touch. BJ-scarfing down popcorn as we speak. "Sal" <sally_dex…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c80f7a1@usenet.per.paradox.net.au… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi BJ and All > reporting in … do you remember I posted a few weeks ago waiting for > specialist appoint for the diagnosis? > got bummed mega completely around by rheumy … then this week saw an > immunologist who has saved my butt at the eleventh hour. > correct diagnosis (SLE) made, appropriate treatment plan set in place, > open and direct communication and great collaboration … I just love > this guy ! (and I think he is gonna love me as a patient ! lol never > seen a doctor smile or enjoy patient teaching and patients asking > questions as much as this one ! weird but very reassuring) > in one and half hours I got all the answers I needed right now in the > universe – and some realistic treatment for my symptoms. > so currently chilling out on prednisone 50mg plaquenil 400mg and mega > tuna sandwich appetite *sigh* > for the first time in forever I feel relieved normal alive and mellow > … is this a normal response to SLE diagnosis? or just a response to > some medication that my body really needed to save itself from falling > apart? > you guys pointed me in the right direction with excellent advice and > support to get myself help and treatment that I urgently needed, god > bless you all! (and thanks for understanding my need to share this corny > long note!) > Sal
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Competing with my daughter and husband for computer time and saving energy for my son’s visit during his spring break. CP "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message
news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an > update. > BJ-checking up on friends here
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Oh CP, I am soooo jealous. I wish my son could come home for spring break. I long to hug him. He is in law school in Vancouver. It is just too far. He also works and can’t get time off. Enjoy your boy. BJ-lonely in Saskatchewan "CSP" <csper…@juno.com> wrote in message
news:up7g8.7756$va.3148@nwrddc02.gnilink.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Competing with my daughter and husband for computer time and saving energy > for my son’s visit during his spring break. > CP > "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message > news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… > > Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many > that > > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave > an > > update. > > BJ-checking up on friends here
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HI Sal, Excellent news! Isn’t it wonderful to find a doctor like that? My nephrologist is the same way. Wes On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:03:36 +0800, "Sal" <sally_dex…@hotmail.com> wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Hi BJ and All >reporting in … do you remember I posted a few weeks ago waiting for >specialist appoint for the diagnosis? >got bummed mega completely around by rheumy … then this week saw an >immunologist who has saved my butt at the eleventh hour. >correct diagnosis (SLE) made, appropriate treatment plan set in place, >open and direct communication and great collaboration … I just love >this guy ! (and I think he is gonna love me as a patient ! lol never >seen a doctor smile or enjoy patient teaching and patients asking >questions as much as this one ! weird but very reassuring) >in one and half hours I got all the answers I needed right now in the >universe – and some realistic treatment for my symptoms. >so currently chilling out on prednisone 50mg plaquenil 400mg and mega >tuna sandwich appetite *sigh* >for the first time in forever I feel relieved normal alive and mellow >… is this a normal response to SLE diagnosis? or just a response to >some medication that my body really needed to save itself from falling >apart? >you guys pointed me in the right direction with excellent advice and >support to get myself help and treatment that I urgently needed, god >bless you all! (and thanks for understanding my need to share this corny >long note!) >Sal
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Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an update. BJ-checking up on friends here
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I am here just laying low !!! i seeing so many docs and they are putting me on new meds for my headaches!! i have not picked them up just yet they are being filled right now!! so i will see i have never been onthem before so when i get them back i will let you all know what they are !!! ok doke Love T "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message
news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an > update. > BJ-checking up on friends here
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In article <u7vm922logm…@corp.supernews.com>, BJ <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote >Where is everyone?
Keeping quiet, I hope – I seem to spend days checking up on the truth or otherwise of "But everyone knows that". I’m finding that his (or her) memory isn’t what it used to be! — Andy [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society] For Austrian philately <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/austamps> For Lupus <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk/lupus> For my other interests <URL:http://www.kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>
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In article <u7vm922logm…@corp.supernews.com>, BJ <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote: >Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that >haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an >update.
Tired, but okay. Allergy season has arrived in California with a vengeance. We’re hemmorhaging money this week (my car, his car, vet bills). And I seem to have become embroiled in a flamewar over on alt.support.arthritis. A lot of folks who don’t know how to use their newsreaders AND get offended when you suggest they maybe learn to trim down linelength and at least _try_ and reply to the message they’re referring to, not another one made by someone else entirely. You know, the things that make this ascii-only format readable. I’ve been accused of engineering the whole flame war, even though I appear to have walked into the middle of it. My goodness, at least some of the posters over there are humorless. Not all, just the one throwing temper tantrums this week. I just threw this URL out at them. We’ll see if I get flamed again [hahah] http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html This is the Flame Warriors page. — Lee M.Thompson-Herbert l…@retro.com KoX 1995, SP4 Head Muso, White Rats Morris Member, Knights of Xenu (1995). Chaos Monger and Jill of All Trades. "A head-on collision between Morticia Adams and Martha Stewart"
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Hi Lee, Thank you for doing the check in. Some people take themselves far too seriously. I would think they would have better things to get upset about. I hope it doesn’t bother you to be in the middle of that sort of thing. Why is it that one big expense is always followed by another? It must be a rule or something. We have had that happen too. I hear it is warm in California. I wish I could say that about Saskatchewan. BJ-California dreaming—again. "Lee Thompson-Herbert" <l…@gw.retro.com> wrote in message
news:a5p22k$kf1$1@gw.retro.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> In article <u7vm922logm…@corp.supernews.com>, BJ <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote: > >Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that > >haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an > >update. > Tired, but okay. Allergy season has arrived in California with a vengeance. > We’re hemmorhaging money this week (my car, his car, vet bills). And I > seem to have become embroiled in a flamewar over on alt.support.arthritis. > A lot of folks who don’t know how to use their newsreaders AND get offended > when you suggest they maybe learn to trim down linelength and at least > _try_ and reply to the message they’re referring to, not another one made > by someone else entirely. You know, the things that make this ascii-only > format readable. I’ve been accused of engineering the whole flame war, > even though I appear to have walked into the middle of it. My goodness, > at least some of the posters over there are humorless. Not all, just the > one throwing temper tantrums this week. > I just threw this URL out at them. We’ll see if I get flamed again [hahah] > http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame1.html > This is the Flame Warriors page. > — > Lee M.Thompson-Herbert l…@retro.com KoX 1995, SP4 > Head Muso, White Rats Morris > Member, Knights of Xenu (1995). Chaos Monger and Jill of All Trades. > "A head-on collision between Morticia Adams and Martha Stewart"
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>>Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many >that >> >haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave >an >> >update.
Hi, Im still lurking, way behind again on messages/posts on here, but Im much better, (just lost my dog at vets not long ago and was devestated) since we were given a new puppy that is way sweet, a little westie my husband and I named angel.. Hugs, Tina (oh and you must remove my dirtysox to reply to me byE- mail)
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Everything is quiet and blissful in Utopia!! Could we expect anything else? It is soooo quiet and blissful, that I am on my way out the door to *Elevate some Feces* shall we say<g>. Any future quietness will probably involve the legal system in one fashion or another. Hope everyone has a great weekend John "BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message
news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many that > haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave an > update. > BJ-checking up on friends here
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Ya’ just gotta love that prednisone! On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:39:18 -0500, "John" <john_5…@hotmail.com> wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Everything is quiet and blissful in Utopia!! Could we expect anything else? >It is soooo quiet and blissful, that I am on my way out the door to *Elevate >some Feces* shall we say<g>. Any future quietness will probably involve the >legal system in one fashion or another. >Hope everyone has a great weekend >John >"BJ" <B…@sk.nojunk.ca> wrote in message >news:u7vm922logmi83@corp.supernews.com… >> Where is everyone? It is just too quiet around here. There are so many >that >> haven’t reported for such a long time. It would be great if everyone gave >an >> update. >> BJ-checking up on friends here
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Sometimes Lee, you just can’t help people. I’ve not visited ASA. but so many groups are always teetering on the edge of a flame war so it doesn’t take much for one person to push them over that edge (even if it was totally unintentional or designed to be informative.) I had multiple knives protruding from my back when I left a previous group because I asked a newbie to stop chastising people for posting test posts or jokes. The newbie had managed to quickly build a support structure of some of the regulars (ignoring the fact that I’d been there for 2 years and never so much as gotten a "go to H*ll") and my request was perceived as "attacking this poor lost soul." I never felt so betrayed. I’ve come a long way since then – realizing that you just gotta shrug some of this crud off. Oh, BTB, I’m here.
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