from Cheryl in CA

[Guest guest]

Thank you

. It will sure help!

From: heather anfinson

Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004

12:45 PM

To: LUPIES

Subject: Re: RE: from

Cheryl in CA

cheryl I am so glad to hear that your husband got a job!

That should take a lot of stress off of your shoulders now.

Congrats!

in CA

[Guest guest]

Hi Cheryl, congratulations to you and your husband with his new job.

I'm happy for you, you have health insurance again.

Great for you, you don't have so much pain anymore through the swimming. Well, you can look forward, you can start to swim earlier in the spring next year.

I mean, you can be sad about it, but you also can look at it from an other side. If you didn't discover the swimming, you didn't even had these weeks, you swim now.

Aren't there any indoor hot water pools by any chance?

Look tomorrow morning, with getting up.

Btw, I wasn't sure before, but now I read you're taking sleeping pills. From people who are taking sleeping pills, I hear they need much more sleep than eight hours.

I hope you will start to like each other and have as much fun as I and my buddy have. She's a care-taker to me.

I'm exhausted afterwards and go to bed immediately.

Yet, she's a great help to me.

I hope you won't forget to take care of yourself as well.

micha.

RE: from Cheryl in CA

WoW! I am more than 200 E-mails behind!

I told you guys some time ago that I decided to turn over a new leaf. I joined the Easter Seal hot pool therapy program. It is quite a drive from here so it is taking up a lot of my time. I feel a little better already. My legs don’t have as many pins and needles, pain and such. I am sore all over from exercise but it is that different “good” kind of soreness. The water is kept at 92 degrees. It feels so good! When I get out of the pool I feel like I weigh 400 lbs! I get real tired. It is also helping me with my depression. I was so very depressed I hated to face another day. Part of it was having my husband home making messes all day while looking for a job. The pool gets me away from that.

I have also been doing other things too to get out of my depression.

Guess what! My husband starts a new job tomorrow (Mon.). It will be quite a drive but at least it is a job! It has good insurance with dental. I have been without most of my meds for months now. My God must be helping me because I don’t seem to be sicker. I take Celebrex and an antidepressant that my Dr. gives me for free. I buy my pain and sleeping pills; they don’t cost a lot with my little SS meds discount. I haven’t had any Aralen for months and haven’t gotten a flare. I think my fibro is worse than my lupus these days. I am having trouble with my bladder but don’t have an infection, just symptoms. I have interstitial cystitis. I am so grateful he is going back to work. He considered the retraining and decided we couldn’t survive on such a low income for the time period he would need to train. I told him he has to make the decision. I don’t want him to stay in sales if he will have a nervous breakdown over it.

Guess what again! My girlfriend’s mom has been real sick. She is one of 4 kids and they all take turns taking care of her but they all work. They have been hiring a care-taker for her during the day and going over there to stay overnight with her after working all day. The care-taker has fibromyalgia. For some reason she wants to quit coming Tuesday and Thursday. I am going over there in the morning Tuesday & Thursday and staying until about 1pm or later if I like. It is a big deal for me to be there about 8:30 am.

She is recovering and can be alone in the afternoon until one of the kids come in the afternoon to fix supper and stay the night. She will pay me gas money. I collect disability so I can’t take a real job. I don’t know what she will give me but I know my girlfriend and know that whatever money she gives me will be a big help. I like her mom a lot. I told her about the swim program and she is going to get a prescription from her Dr. so I can take her swimming with me once a week. They have physical therapists who work with very ill people. She can’t swim but that’s OK. They put stuff around them to keep them afloat. There is a ramp and wheel chairs. They wheel the people into the water in the chair and work personally with them. I can do my assigned exercise program while they work with her or if we get there for the arthritis class, I can join that while she is doing her thing. She is instructed to walk some every morning now too. The swimming will replace that. I also have to take her to physical therapy once per week. So one day I will walk her and take her to therapy and one day we will swim if her Dr. said its ok. Get this; it took them over a year to find out what was wrong with her! Sound familiar? She couldn’t walk or move her arms! She can walk now but I will have to feed her, she still has arm trouble. I forgot what it is she has, I have never heard of it before but it is a nerve disease. I am looking forward to doing this.

We are having weird weather. Fall is in the air already and I dread the winter coming. The pool is mostly uncovered and years ago I was in the swim program and quit when it got cold. Everyone said it is so warm in the pool they enjoy it anyway. We will see. I should have gotten off my butt and started this in the spring! I just thought about it, rolled over in bed and cried! I am doing better now.

[Guest guest]

Hi Cheryl, congratulations to you and your husband with his new job.

I'm happy for you, you have health insurance again.

Great for you, you don't have so much pain anymore through the swimming. Well, you can look forward, you can start to swim earlier in the spring next year.

I mean, you can be sad about it, but you also can look at it from an other side. If you didn't discover the swimming, you didn't even had these weeks, you swim now.

Aren't there any indoor hot water pools by any chance?

Look tomorrow morning, with getting up.

Btw, I wasn't sure before, but now I read you're taking sleeping pills. From people who are taking sleeping pills, I hear they need much more sleep than eight hours.

I hope you will start to like each other and have as much fun as I and my buddy have. She's a care-taker to me.

I'm exhausted afterwards and go to bed immediately.

Yet, she's a great help to me.

I hope you won't forget to take care of yourself as well.

micha.

RE: from Cheryl in CA

WoW! I am more than 200 E-mails behind!

I told you guys some time ago that I decided to turn over a new leaf. I joined the Easter Seal hot pool therapy program. It is quite a drive from here so it is taking up a lot of my time. I feel a little better already. My legs don’t have as many pins and needles, pain and such. I am sore all over from exercise but it is that different “good” kind of soreness. The water is kept at 92 degrees. It feels so good! When I get out of the pool I feel like I weigh 400 lbs! I get real tired. It is also helping me with my depression. I was so very depressed I hated to face another day. Part of it was having my husband home making messes all day while looking for a job. The pool gets me away from that.

I have also been doing other things too to get out of my depression.

Guess what! My husband starts a new job tomorrow (Mon.). It will be quite a drive but at least it is a job! It has good insurance with dental. I have been without most of my meds for months now. My God must be helping me because I don’t seem to be sicker. I take Celebrex and an antidepressant that my Dr. gives me for free. I buy my pain and sleeping pills; they don’t cost a lot with my little SS meds discount. I haven’t had any Aralen for months and haven’t gotten a flare. I think my fibro is worse than my lupus these days. I am having trouble with my bladder but don’t have an infection, just symptoms. I have interstitial cystitis. I am so grateful he is going back to work. He considered the retraining and decided we couldn’t survive on such a low income for the time period he would need to train. I told him he has to make the decision. I don’t want him to stay in sales if he will have a nervous breakdown over it.

Guess what again! My girlfriend’s mom has been real sick. She is one of 4 kids and they all take turns taking care of her but they all work. They have been hiring a care-taker for her during the day and going over there to stay overnight with her after working all day. The care-taker has fibromyalgia. For some reason she wants to quit coming Tuesday and Thursday. I am going over there in the morning Tuesday & Thursday and staying until about 1pm or later if I like. It is a big deal for me to be there about 8:30 am.

She is recovering and can be alone in the afternoon until one of the kids come in the afternoon to fix supper and stay the night. She will pay me gas money. I collect disability so I can’t take a real job. I don’t know what she will give me but I know my girlfriend and know that whatever money she gives me will be a big help. I like her mom a lot. I told her about the swim program and she is going to get a prescription from her Dr. so I can take her swimming with me once a week. They have physical therapists who work with very ill people. She can’t swim but that’s OK. They put stuff around them to keep them afloat. There is a ramp and wheel chairs. They wheel the people into the water in the chair and work personally with them. I can do my assigned exercise program while they work with her or if we get there for the arthritis class, I can join that while she is doing her thing. She is instructed to walk some every morning now too. The swimming will replace that. I also have to take her to physical therapy once per week. So one day I will walk her and take her to therapy and one day we will swim if her Dr. said its ok. Get this; it took them over a year to find out what was wrong with her! Sound familiar? She couldn’t walk or move her arms! She can walk now but I will have to feed her, she still has arm trouble. I forgot what it is she has, I have never heard of it before but it is a nerve disease. I am looking forward to doing this.

We are having weird weather. Fall is in the air already and I dread the winter coming. The pool is mostly uncovered and years ago I was in the swim program and quit when it got cold. Everyone said it is so warm in the pool they enjoy it anyway. We will see. I should have gotten off my butt and started this in the spring! I just thought about it, rolled over in bed and cried! I am doing better now.

[Guest guest]

Hi Cheryl, congratulations to you and your husband with his new job.

I'm happy for you, you have health insurance again.

Great for you, you don't have so much pain anymore through the swimming. Well, you can look forward, you can start to swim earlier in the spring next year.

I mean, you can be sad about it, but you also can look at it from an other side. If you didn't discover the swimming, you didn't even had these weeks, you swim now.

Aren't there any indoor hot water pools by any chance?

Look tomorrow morning, with getting up.

Btw, I wasn't sure before, but now I read you're taking sleeping pills. From people who are taking sleeping pills, I hear they need much more sleep than eight hours.

I hope you will start to like each other and have as much fun as I and my buddy have. She's a care-taker to me.

I'm exhausted afterwards and go to bed immediately.

Yet, she's a great help to me.

I hope you won't forget to take care of yourself as well.

micha.

RE: from Cheryl in CA

WoW! I am more than 200 E-mails behind!

I told you guys some time ago that I decided to turn over a new leaf. I joined the Easter Seal hot pool therapy program. It is quite a drive from here so it is taking up a lot of my time. I feel a little better already. My legs don’t have as many pins and needles, pain and such. I am sore all over from exercise but it is that different “good” kind of soreness. The water is kept at 92 degrees. It feels so good! When I get out of the pool I feel like I weigh 400 lbs! I get real tired. It is also helping me with my depression. I was so very depressed I hated to face another day. Part of it was having my husband home making messes all day while looking for a job. The pool gets me away from that.

I have also been doing other things too to get out of my depression.

Guess what! My husband starts a new job tomorrow (Mon.). It will be quite a drive but at least it is a job! It has good insurance with dental. I have been without most of my meds for months now. My God must be helping me because I don’t seem to be sicker. I take Celebrex and an antidepressant that my Dr. gives me for free. I buy my pain and sleeping pills; they don’t cost a lot with my little SS meds discount. I haven’t had any Aralen for months and haven’t gotten a flare. I think my fibro is worse than my lupus these days. I am having trouble with my bladder but don’t have an infection, just symptoms. I have interstitial cystitis. I am so grateful he is going back to work. He considered the retraining and decided we couldn’t survive on such a low income for the time period he would need to train. I told him he has to make the decision. I don’t want him to stay in sales if he will have a nervous breakdown over it.

Guess what again! My girlfriend’s mom has been real sick. She is one of 4 kids and they all take turns taking care of her but they all work. They have been hiring a care-taker for her during the day and going over there to stay overnight with her after working all day. The care-taker has fibromyalgia. For some reason she wants to quit coming Tuesday and Thursday. I am going over there in the morning Tuesday & Thursday and staying until about 1pm or later if I like. It is a big deal for me to be there about 8:30 am.

She is recovering and can be alone in the afternoon until one of the kids come in the afternoon to fix supper and stay the night. She will pay me gas money. I collect disability so I can’t take a real job. I don’t know what she will give me but I know my girlfriend and know that whatever money she gives me will be a big help. I like her mom a lot. I told her about the swim program and she is going to get a prescription from her Dr. so I can take her swimming with me once a week. They have physical therapists who work with very ill people. She can’t swim but that’s OK. They put stuff around them to keep them afloat. There is a ramp and wheel chairs. They wheel the people into the water in the chair and work personally with them. I can do my assigned exercise program while they work with her or if we get there for the arthritis class, I can join that while she is doing her thing. She is instructed to walk some every morning now too. The swimming will replace that. I also have to take her to physical therapy once per week. So one day I will walk her and take her to therapy and one day we will swim if her Dr. said its ok. Get this; it took them over a year to find out what was wrong with her! Sound familiar? She couldn’t walk or move her arms! She can walk now but I will have to feed her, she still has arm trouble. I forgot what it is she has, I have never heard of it before but it is a nerve disease. I am looking forward to doing this.

We are having weird weather. Fall is in the air already and I dread the winter coming. The pool is mostly uncovered and years ago I was in the swim program and quit when it got cold. Everyone said it is so warm in the pool they enjoy it anyway. We will see. I should have gotten off my butt and started this in the spring! I just thought about it, rolled over in bed and cried! I am doing better now.