Christmas Recap and RA Gifts!

“Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!”
Still my favorite quote that directly relates to Christmas.  
On Christmas morning, I woke up to a bunch of text messages from friends and family. I love that about the holidays- I’m not being sarcastic yet, I really do get a kick out of who [...]

Operation Procrastination

So, it’s exactly one week until Christmas and I have only bought 1 Christmas gift.  And everywhere around me is getting snow while I’m getting copious amounts of rain mixed with snow and sleet.  Which I fear may freeze tonight.  Why am I so scared?  Is it because I live in a really old neighborhood [...]

MTX is off the hook…this time

So yes, everytime I have any weird sort of symptom, I immediately look for a way to blame it on my RA.
A week and a half ago, I woke up and my armpits were itching.  Not just a little bit but almost unbearably.  I had just restarted methotrexate so I looked on WebMD and a [...]

H1N1 Vaccine

I laugh that I can keep up with the world by simply looking at my friends’ Facebook status updates.  A few recent favorites include “Jeff intercepted a memo reminding Delhomme that he plays for the Panthers” and “Megan is beginning week 3 of (f)unemployment.”  
Today, I noticed probably 8 updates about the H1N1 vaccine.  They [...]

LOL

One of my favorite parts of this whole blog thing is seeing the queries people enter that bring it up in search results.
Today I had a good chuckle over this:
Lazy people on disability.
Ha.
NOT IT!

The post where I mention that sometimes I’m not the brightest crayon in the box.

So it appears that this flare has been sponsored in part by…….(drumroll)………extraordinarily low levels of both potassium and iron!  With independent auditing provided by the phlebotomist at my doctor’s office! Major sponsorship provided by “Amanda’s an idiot who gets excited about needing less of the hard stuff and forgets to take standard supplements for months [...]

Phones, Sleep, and Flares do not mesh.

Why is it that when I’m in mid-flare, hurting and exhausted, that I have a hard time sleeping?
Why is it that when I finally fall asleep, I am woken up 10 minutes later (approx 2am) by a series of text messages?
Why is it that when you get text messages at 2 am, you automatically jump [...]

Adventures in Swimming

So, one of my very best friends came up to see me last weekend.  We loaded up a cooler with yummy adult beverages (I know, but I’m not on MTX anymore. WOOOO!) and set out to find an apartment complex with a pool since mine doesn’t have one.  The first complex we went to had [...]

At which point, I had to overcome my desire to kick her in the face.

Conversation today when I was getting a pedicure and had my first ever parafin wax treatment.
AJ: (as she is dipping my feet in hot wax and wrapping them in plastic) Wow, that feels great.  Now what exactly does that do?
Snarky 19 year old Pedicurist: It locks the moisture into the skin on your feet.
AJ: That [...]

Driving myself crazy

This is completely not RA related.
Yep, a couple of weeks ago when I decided to decline 2 invitations to various beaches and decided that I would NOT be going to the annual party I go to for July 4th at a friends in Greenville, I was psyched.
3 glorious days with not a damn thing to [...]