Hi all - welcome Ray and other news

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Welcome to the Air family Ray. We aren't all about doom and gloom here because

obviously some of us need to discuss our derrieres and what position we were in

to check our expiration stamps. I personally prefer bending over, crooking my

head backwards and just looking up. Nah, just teasing. I haven't been able to

do that for simply years!

Seriously, welcome to our world. Sorry you had to be here but this is a good

place to be amongst your peers. No foolin. Did I mention I'm in Texas and we

have a tendency to tell tall tales out here? OH! The Rattlesnake Roundup is in

Sweetwater this weekend if anybody is interested. Bruce? Wally? No? Oh well.

Good news today. Saw pulmo guy and he had nothin but love for the way my chest

x-ray looked. The PFT's were good and my lungs sounded clear and I made it thru

the winter without a flareup. So yeah!!! I told him the rheumatologist has

decided I have RA, Sjogren's,lupus or mixed connective. Definitely something of

the connective tissue nature. He is treating me with Plaquenil and I do feel

better. We're just going with that as long as it works. I don't care what

disease he wants to call it. And Doc was pleased so we're all good out

here in West Texas tonight. Except for the rattlesnake thing.

S, Lubbock, TX

NSIP w/PF 12/2006 et al