update

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Hi...just an update. I'm still on weekly Humira injections, and using a

Durogesic patch for pain. The Ra/PsA are only mildly agitated, and the

FMS flare is about 50% better on most days. There are days when I

thoroughly enjoy the energy the continuing weight loss has given

me...and some days the autoimmune problems just are more stubborn, I

guess.

Monday I leave on a holiday with 2 good friends...we are travelling to

Bend, Oregon, and will see Crosby, Stills & Nash at the amphitheatre

there, and enjoy the high desert country. My best friend has been dx'd

with thyroid cancer...her situation is complicated by some other health

factors, so she is being treated at the U of W Med Center in Seattle.

I'll be travelling with her for her surgery and to be with her those

days after, the 2nd week of October. I am enormously grateful I am able

to travel some now.

My middle daughter many of you know of, Emmy, just went through a

break-up in the first serious relationship she had. She was pretty

confused at first, but she is feeling better every day, and seems to be

at some peace about it. Work is pretty stressful, so she may look for a

different job.

I'm sending love to all, and prayers of hope & health

Tess