Infection, Orencia, and Arava whine

April 18, 2009

Bear with me as this is a whine we've all heard but it helps to give it a voice.

WILL MY KIDS NEVER LEARN TO WASH THEIR HANDS?! I was told the Arava will squash

what was left of my immune system and to be more careful about staying healthy.

I wash & clean more than I ever have! I'm a faithful user of Chlorox wipes on my

keyboards & stuff but I am still picking up the bugs the kids bring home from

school! I have been on Arava with Orencia just long enough to experience what it

felt like to move and be able to work again. Crap! Beans! Nuts!

I caught an ear & sinus infection from my 15 yr old. Sinus rinsing is gross but

I still do it. Even 3 times a day didn't help this! I finally went to my GP &

she put me on antibiotics for 14 days which meant I had to stop the Arava. Now

I'm coughing & nose-blowing from all the drainage, my ears are so full of fluid

that everyone has to repeat themselves because I can't hear them and I hurt all

over again!

Since getting this stupid infection I got my first nodules on my finger joints.

Jeez those little buggers are painful. Like I needed anything else happening?

Today was one for the crapper, too. I was asked to attend a local indoor auction

to buy a couple of specific items- kept me there till 2pm- and this morning I

had to take 12 hogs to a neighboring town for us & 2 other families to get

ear-tagged for this years 4H projects. Feeling like a bag of soggy lettuce with

lumpy hands driving 12 miles one way in a truck I'm not used to while pulling a

livestock trailer with 12 pigs who aren't smart enough to stand still wasn't

quite what I had in mind for today. I wanted to grow roots into my favorite

couch seat and slowly search the internet for genealogy links.

Tomorrow I will run the check-in table (protection point) for the little kids at

Church so at least I will get to sit and catch up on my sunday-school class

reading. Also I told everyone in the house that I expect help in getting lunch

on the table and that I WILL OWN the satellite remote after lunch. I'm not doing

Jack Diddly Squat for anyone on Sunday. Period.

I expect no replies as this is a situation we've all dealt with. Well, maybe not

the hogs, but having infections, having to stop a medication that helps, having

manure-ish painful days, being expected to do things for the family that totally

wastes our " precious spoons " . I am almost halfway done with my antibiotics and I

know it'll all get back to my new normal. It just makes me feel a little better

to put all this in words. It is kinda like letting a nasty burp out so you feel

better.

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