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Hello, Tracie, I wrote before apolizing for writing stuff awhile back. I know shouldn't be that way, but that "old throw in the towel sydrome" still hangs around more or less all the time. I did one of those things like 6 weeks ago and went down to Ann Arbor V.A. to see the lung doc. I did this today and had a lung function test of my semi-annual visits to there. This was the best one I had of all of them since of having this diagnois of Sarcoidosis. This very well not like prexisting of having this diagnois, but best since then. I asked this lung doc if I still have Sarcoidosis. He said that's uncertain. It very well is NOT ACTIVE there in my lungs however. I don't disagree with anything what he said. It is this area of pain in my legs & knees that has and is my pressing concern. I'll give my "grading" of these V.A. docs' at the end of this e-mail. My "OLD FART" primary care doctor, Dr.

Vande Haar, told me last Wednesday (May 31st) that I DON'T HAVE SARCOIDOSIS. Well, well, if I don't have this, then what is it??????? Arthritic Blood Profile Test for Arthrisis was negative in May, 2002. Testing to see if I had Kidney Disease, Vitamin D-12 Defiency, and Diabeetes that causing this nerve damage of mine were all negative in summer 2002. I don't have cancer, infections, or an alcohoic that would cause Alcohoic Neuropathy that would cause this nerve damage as well. This "OLD FART" doc of mine very well has thought that BECAUSE I'am not having seizures, strokes, heart attacks, organ damage, etc that I DON'T have Sarcoidosis. He agreed with that rhemy doc and not having an MRI on my legs & knees WHERE all said and done 90 % of my pain is occuring. He said that this rhemy doc got his medical training at the University of Detroit and somewhere else. BIG DEAL!!!!!!!!! Right now this pain in my legs & knees is about #4 compared to last year when it was

up to #8 level on a scale of #0 to #10. Summer is just about starting however. I'am sure my pain in this area will increase. My grading of these docs': Pulmonary (lung) --- A Eye ---- A Neurology --- B Rheumology --- D- Primary Care Doc --- D+ P.s. You y'all want me to leave this group??? __________________________________________________