Updates on The Queen Brens and the Princess Ang

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Hey everyone sorry for the mass mailing and for those of you on all these

lists too(is anyone else an idiot like me???<grin>) I apologize--just delete

3 times ......

>Hope you all are having a good weekend. Things here are nuts. I will try

and make

>this short, so may leave out bits--As I may have mentioned I have been sort

>of not feeling well for quite awhile now. Well I have been to a few

>different specialists along with my family practice dr. and the neurologist

>told me at our last visit he suspects I may have fibromyalgia--I have been

>having a lot of the symptoms it seems, but no one has really added them up

>to come up with a cause. It seems the bladder problems and endometriosis

>and headaches and joint/muscle pains are related and its very likely to be

>fibromyalgia. Well I don't know a whole lot about Fibro even yet, but one

of

>'s best little girlfriends has it and arthritis and asthma (yeah I

>have asthma too as you might remember and I also have chronic sinusitis

>which also may be fibro related. oh and btw, I did have an MRI of my brain

yesterday so that is to rule out lord knows what all-any masses etc I guess.

>

>Interesting huh? Well so not to worry, its treatable but not curable. I

can

>deal with it with a good diet, vitamins, trying to get into some exercise

(I contacted

>the arthritis foundation already and I'm going to sign up for water

aerobics

>of some type) and getting enough rest--plus different meds to treat

>symptoms, I am on a lot of meds now but we should be able to taper off

some

>of them pretty soon.

>

>And to make things worse I tripped and fell down and injured my left foot

at

>the kids school about 3 weeks ago, we took x-rays and there's no fracture

>but it showed degenerative disease (AKA arthritis I guess), and if that

>wasn't enough I banged it again really hard on the furniture wandering

>around in the dark one night looking for some pain medicine as I had woken

>up in a lot of pain. so I am trying to stay off my feet and using a

crutch and a wheelchair for getting around. , when I have to get around that

is.

>

>and...........YIKES--now is sick too (looks like a exacerbation,

shes sneezing, coughing a little more, sinusy AGAIN!! and feeling a bit yuck

all over . So we saw a new pedi doc (her regular doc

>wasn't in today) and I LOVE THIS DOC already!! I took in with me all of the

>lab results I could find from all her cultures since the first positive one

>at age 2 (pos for pseudomonas A) and I said I know you don't know us, but

this

>is and she has CF, asthma and severe allergies, and this may be

>allergy related but I am thinking its the staph infection again too ....and

the

>doc was so cool!! she complimented me on my record keeping and knowledge

of

>CF and my kid!! I felt so so happy--she took a throat culture without me

>asking and agreed to treat her for staph, 3 weeks of augmentin and we are

>going to see the CF clinic doc next Wed. so we should have the culture

>report back in by then easily. Shes put in for an authorization right away

too. I am feeling so relieved and I'm so thrilled

>we have finally found a primary care doc I can communicate with. that is

so necessary when you have to live in HMO-land

>

guess thats all for now!! whew!!!!!!!!!1

love,

PS : OF course me and Queen Kathy of can share the throne...hey

Kath...get off...I gotta go now!!!!! rofl !!!!!!! and let us never forget

our Empress Barbi--I think of you everyday Barbi, its got to be getting

close to the time for your new lung installment any day now!!

What goes around, comes around...

>

>

>>I am sure this has been posted here before, but it bears repeating.

>>

>>*-,,-**-,,-**-,,-**-,,-**-,,-**-,,-*

>>Stay healthy and happy

>>Kathy

>>pakaru@...

>>----------------------------

>>

>>His name was Fleming, and he was a poor ish farmer. One day, while

>>trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming

>>from a nearby bog.

>>

>>He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in

>>black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.

>>

>>Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and

>>terrifying death.

>>

>>The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse

>>surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced

>>himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

>>

>> " I want to repay you, " said the nobleman. " You saved my son's life. "

" No,

>>I can't accept payment for what I did, " the ish farmer replied,

waving

>>off the offer.

>>

>>At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

>> " Is that your son? " the nobleman asked. " Yes, " the farmer replied

proudly.

>> " I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If

>>the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud

>>of. "

>>

>>And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. 's

>>Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout

>>the world as the noted Sir Fleming, the discoverer of

Penicillin.

>>

>>Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What

>>saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph

Churchill.

>> His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

>>

>>Someone once said: What goes around comes around.

>>

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