Re: Digest Number 3990

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the kind words, a. I am getting some results from the

increased Prednisone and I think this flare is definitely easing up. I knew it

would

but getting through a flare often feels like the hardest work I have ever

done, on both a physical and emotional level. I have recently moved into a

retirement community and I suspect that not having people around that I knew

added

to the isolated feelings I was having with this one. Fortunately, the flares

are pretty rare at this point.

[Guest guest]

Happy to hear that you are feeling better. Hope you'll adjust to your

new home soon and make some good friends there.

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

Re: [ ] Digest Number 3990

> Thanks for the kind words, a. I am getting some results from the

> increased Prednisone and I think this flare is definitely easing up.

I knew it would

> but getting through a flare often feels like the hardest work I have

ever

> done, on both a physical and emotional level. I have recently moved

into a

> retirement community and I suspect that not having people around that

I knew added

> to the isolated feelings I was having with this one. Fortunately, the

flares

> are pretty rare at this point.

[Guest guest]

It is great that you will be around more people and not feel so isolated. I

hope you make a lot of

new friends. Maybe there is an arthritis support group in your community

and there will be people

there that will have things in common with you. You can learn a lot of

coping tips and pain relief tips from others.

You will learn them here too, but it is nice to be able to be with people in

your community that are partners in pain.

Getting through flares can be very draining, and slipping into depression is

easy to do.

I just try not to stay down for to long. I miss to much of life when I¹m

feeling sorry for myself

a

> Thanks for the kind words, a. I am getting some results from the

> increased Prednisone and I think this flare is definitely easing up. I knew

> it would

> but getting through a flare often feels like the hardest work I have ever

> done, on both a physical and emotional level. I have recently moved into a

> retirement community and I suspect that not having people around that I knew

> added

> to the isolated feelings I was having with this one. Fortunately, the flares

> are pretty rare at this point.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Arsenic also comes from potatoes. They are a underground crop and in order

to better facilitate harvest, the are sprayed with arsenic to kill the

plants at a more uniformrate....and I am sure that this could be similar with

rice. My family has a lot of arsenic problems and I think that is why...except

for my husband who worked in a fruit orchard for many years.

hope this helps

ronni

[Guest guest]

Re: Digest Number 3989

Mati-

>Terrible things that must be seen to be believed. Most sightings are

at

>inexpensive Chinese all-you-can-eat banquet places (often the

healthiest

>option when traipsing through the hinterlands and in need of a hot

>something - at least they have greens).

>

>They are 2-3 " across, and are what happens when you deep-fry dried

>(powdered) shrimp cake, which is first articifically colored in pastel

>shades. They're light and bubbly in a sort of styrofoamy way.

They sound sort of like shrimp toast. Are they similar, or something

else

entirely?

--- I don't know. Is shrimp toast round and foldy, like a thick potato chip?

*too nasty to think about "

[Guest guest]

Mati-

>Is shrimp toast round and foldy, like a thick potato chip?

>

>*too nasty to think about "

Well, like a VERY thick potato chip, maybe, and definitely foldy.

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