Re: Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

[Guest guest]

Me thinks it's just a long road!

Stan

Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:13:37 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Stan,

I'm so happy to hear you dumped your rheumy.  I hope you can get on the

right meds, and get to feeling better.  She needs to be reported.  You

have suffered for so long, I'm glad your GP doctor has been helping.

It's a long road, but you will start feeling soon.

Tawny

[Guest guest]

Hi Tawny,

How do I write to Stan?  I have wonerful treatment for RA at my local VA

Hospital.  Head of rheumatology is A UCLA doctor.

Thanks,

Patsy

   

 

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From: " stanpfister@... " <stanpfister@...>

Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:51:39 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

 

Me thinks it's just a long road!

Stan

Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 2:13:37 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Stan,

I'm so happy to hear you dumped your rheumy.  I hope you can get on the

right meds, and get to feeling better.  She needs to be reported.  You

have suffered for so long, I'm glad your GP doctor has been helping.

It's a long road, but you will start feeling soon.

Tawny

[Guest guest]

I am here, I am here, I am here! -Horton Hears a Who

Stan

[ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Hi Patsy - you just did  There is also a link at the bottom of the posts

that will let you " Reply to sender " if you are wanting to send a private email.

 Hope this helps.....Doreen

>

> Hi Tawny,

>

> How do I write to Stan?  I have wonerful treatment for RA at my local

> VA Hospital.  Head of rheumatology is A UCLA doctor.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Patsy

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[Guest guest]

Hi...

I would love to find a Rheumatologist that has RA, I really do believe they

would " get it " but right know I pretty happy with the staff at the VA rheummy

clinic, they were a lot more understanding. I am doing a " TNH " because I

tested positive for TB exposure (it's a pill I take daily) so I have to wait on

the Enbrel . I am very hopeful this will work, perhaps too hopeful but we'll

see. I live in Southern California for 21 years, after the divorce my ex implied

I'd lost my California privileges . I don't know about the weather since I've

only had RA here, but I do believe better weather would help. But I'm thinking,

to leave the Emerald City before I even meet the Wizard, I don't know?

Stan

Seattle, Sun, and more sun!

Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:04:04 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Hi Stan,

I am a patient in the rheumatology clinic at the Sepulveda VA hospital in

southern California.  I have been so lucky to have so many good doctors.  When

I first was pretty much disabled with RA, one of my rheumatologists had suffered

from RA since her teenage years.  You can imagine how important it was that she

knew how the rest of us felt.

Nothing worked for me until Enbrel was approved by the FDA.  I was on Enbrel

for approximately seven or eight years before a serious infection  -- pneumonia

-- forced me to stop taking it.   Arava is my medicine now.  It took a long

time to kick in, but eventually did.  

I teach school part time and pretty much lead a normal life.  There was a day

when I felt life as I knew it was history.

Isn't Seattle a difficult place to live with RA?  My flares are almost always

brought on with high humidity.

Hope you are feeling better and have good doctors now.

Sincerely,

Patsy

[Guest guest]

Stan You have met the wizzard, and he gave you RA.  Time for you to get out of

that climate, and move to a better place for your RA.  It worked for me moving

from Cape  Cod to Florida..............................Barbara

From: stanpfister@... <stanpfister@...>

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 2:27 PM

 

Hi...

I would love to find a Rheumatologist that has RA, I really do believe they

would " get it " but right know I pretty happy with the staff at the VA rheummy

clinic, they were a lot more understanding. I am doing a " TNH " because I

tested positive for TB exposure (it's a pill I take daily) so I have to wait on

the Enbrel . I am very hopeful this will work, perhaps too hopeful but we'll

see. I live in Southern California for 21 years, after the divorce my ex implied

I'd lost my California privileges . I don't know about the weather since I've

only had RA here, but I do believe better weather would help. But I'm thinking,

to leave the Emerald City before I even meet the Wizard, I don't know?

Stan

Seattle, Sun, and more sun!

Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 8:04:04 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Hi Stan,

I am a patient in the rheumatology clinic at the Sepulveda VA hospital in

southern California.  I have been so lucky to have so many good doctors.  When I

first was pretty much disabled with RA, one of my rheumatologists had suffered

from RA since her teenage years.  You can imagine how important it was that she

knew how the rest of us felt.

Nothing worked for me until Enbrel was approved by the FDA.  I was on Enbrel for

approximately seven or eight years before a serious infection  -- pneumonia --

forced me to stop taking it.   Arava is my medicine now.  It took a long time to

kick in, but eventually did.  

I teach school part time and pretty much lead a normal life.  There was a day

when I felt life as I knew it was history.

Isn't Seattle a difficult place to live with RA?  My flares are almost always

brought on with high humidity.

Hope you are feeling better and have good doctors now.

Sincerely,

Patsy

[Guest guest]

Thanks, I really do appreciate it, through all of our threads I have really

discovered who is to blame, and all this time I thought it was when in

fact it was the Wizard! No wonder he would he wouldn't take take my calls!

" Oh, , come here...I'm sorry! (Kodak moment).

Stan

Seattle, Sun.

[ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Hi Stan,

I am a patient in the rheumatology clinic at the Sepulveda VA hospital in

southern California.  I have been so lucky to have so many good doctors.  When

I first was pretty much disabled with RA, one of my rheumatologists had suffered

from RA since her teenage years.  You can imagine how important it was that she

knew how the rest of us felt.

Nothing worked for me until Enbrel was approved by the FDA.  I was on Enbrel

for approximately seven or eight years before a serious infection  -- pneumonia

-- forced me to stop taking it.   Arava is my medicine now.  It took a long

time to kick in, but eventually did.  

I teach school part time and pretty much lead a normal life.  There was a day

when I felt life as I knew it was history.

Isn't Seattle a difficult place to live with RA?  My flares are almost always

brought on with high humidity.

Hope you are feeling better and have good doctors now.

Sincerely,

Patsy

[Guest guest]

Stan, since you lost your California privileges, I'm glad the only

child you two had was that sock monkey! Now why can't I remember his

name?

Sue

On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:27 PM, stanpfister@... wrote:

>

> I would love to find a Rheumatologist that has RA, I really do

> believe they would " get it " but right know I pretty happy with the

> staff at the VA rheummy clinic, they were a lot more understanding.

> I am doing a " TNH " because I tested positive for TB exposure (it's

> a pill I take daily) so I have to wait on the Enbrel . I am very

> hopeful this will work, perhaps too hopeful but we'll see. I live in

> Southern California for 21 years, after the divorce my ex implied

> I'd lost my California privileges . I don't know about the weather

> since I've only had RA here, but I do believe better weather would

> help. But I'm thinking, to leave the Emerald City before I even meet

> the Wizard, I don't know?

[Guest guest]

can't belive you forgot his name!

Stan

Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:32:34 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Stan, since you lost your California privileges, I'm glad the only  

child you two had was that sock monkey! Now why can't I remember his  

name?

Sue

[Guest guest]

Please don't tell him! He would be so mad at me! I'll try to do better

in the future.

Sue

On Jul 19, 2009, at 4:24 PM, stanpfister@... wrote:

>

> can't belive you forgot his name!

>

>

>

> Stan

>

[Guest guest]

LOL

Re: [ ] Re: VA Rhematologist Department.

Please don't tell him! He would be so mad at me! I'll try to do better  

in the future.

Sue

On Jul 19, 2009, at 4:24 PM, stanpfister@... wrote:

>

> can't belive you forgot his name!

>

>

>

> Stan