I need to learn how to knit. Or something. But if I can't hold a brush..how will I hold knitting needles? Such a delimma.
Gracie, what happened, do you have arthritis or carpal-tunnel?
Both. The RA is running rampant. Both wrists, both thumbs, both ankles, both feet/toes, both hips.
Oh, Gracie, my sister had that stuff after she kicked the cancer out. She forgot to work on her diet, which is a full time job if you have any autoimmune disease. And some do not respond to it or are allergic to something. Usually if you follow a dietary path, you will notice if you read widely that some wellness takes a couple of weeks of no-fail pursuit in which little progress is seen. Some therapies don't kick in for two months. It takes a lot of patience, but avoiding bad foods and getting used to food you may have avoided since childhood is not easy, particularly when it takes longer to see results in half the nutritional ones. Oftimes people do not realize it took a lifetime of ignoring healthful eating to get one where they don't want to be healthwise, and it's particularly hard on older Americans who've lived off junk food their entire working life when they can't move fast anymore without falling and calories are reduced with a net weight gain anyhow due to slowdown of metabolism due to medicinal or internal noncooperation with a failure to exercise.
If you ever do get full range motion back in your fingers and arms due to doing the right amount of arm circles and claw-making exercises, keep in mind there are creams out there to help tighten the skin when you experience "cellulose loss." I'm having a lot more problems since I let my gym membership lapse due to pneumonia last year and asthma this. At least I was getting up and going, even if I could only use the walking or cycling machine for 10 minutes, it was all good later on. If you have asthma, however, people think you have the creeping mange or something, and don't know it's inner issue causing the cough reflex and other unmentionables. So hopefully, my doctor will be finding out what's going on with my little problems as I visit tomorrow for another blood draw. She found out something else that she might be able to prevent but didn't say what it was in case it was just a read caused by something I ate. I need to get a hatband, and a little wire protruding up and forward to attach reminder notes to that would be in a place where I couldn't possibly miss remembering it. Written reminder notes would be bounce, bounce, bouncing in front of my dumb little eyes.
Last md visit, I forgot to do what she told me to do about coming back and getting my lung pictures to make sure they were clear. Doh. That tends to extend your time spent wishing you felt better by 100%. Maybe tomorrow I will have done everything right, except I lost about 60 pills off my work area, and I've looked everywhere except the right one. It took me a week to find my new glasses after I missed them for looking where I put them in my purse, where they hid behind notebooks for a week, when I dumped the purse to clean it out. There they were! lol Old age is not for sissies like me.
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to everyone. I was headed out the driveway to go to karaoke, when my feet started cramping really, really bad before I got to the gate, so I had to reverse and come home. I was just gonna listen because my little case of asthma makes it hard to breathe deeply enough to hit the high notes. Guess I'll go back upstairs and try to plan a border around that quilt So far, it's about 40x60", so this will be bigger than most crib quilts, but hopefully it will keep someone warm in winter and his mommy's picnic table covered in the summers.
