AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
Journey with Me
Hi there! My name is Dana. I created this space as a place to share the things I learn along this journey I call life. I am a Jesus follower, wife, twin mom and dog mom. I work in marketing/sales analytics and I’m a sort of Jane of All Trades, interested in all things nature, gardening, cooking, crafting, traveling, exploring and learning new things. This blog is a conglomeration of my interests, hobbies, life and life lessons. Thanks for stopping by!
Latest Blog Posts
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Well, I decided it was finally time to finish my Fruit of the Spirit study. We never quite finished it in small group, as we moved on to other topics, but I at least wanted to wrap it up here. We are now down to the last fruit: self-control. What is self-control? I like the
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A couple months ago, I decided to get serious about keeping track of my medical records and really taking ownership in the management of my health care. It is my body, after all. This led to me requesting files from several doctors, the creation of at least one spreadsheet and a chart (because what are
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Today I had my follow-up appointment with my rheumatologist to evaluate how well Humira was working after three months. I switched to Humira in December of 2011 from Enbrel, because my sed rate and inflammation were high, and my disease was not well enough controlled in my doctor’s opinion. He was seeing joint space narrowing
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My next appointment to see my rheumatologist is on Tuesday. We’re going to have to evaluate how well Humira is working to try to determine whether to continue the treatment course I’m on or to change it up some how. If you’ve been following my Humira story, you’ll know it’s been kind of hard for
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It appears that last year’s winter house project has also turned into this year’s winter house project. Last year, we successfully painted the trim in almost our entire house white and changed out 7 interior doors: hollow, scratched up darkish-pine doors, replaced with solid pine 6-panel doors painted white. It took forever. To be honest,
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After reading RA Warrior’s blog today and finding a link to this article, I found myself in some interesting thoughts and conversations about drugs and treatment for RA/RAD. Firstly, although a digression from my main point here, I do want to address some of the problems I had with the article as relates to the
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Valentine’s Day was this week. Did you do anything fun to celebrate? Tom doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because he says it’s just a “Hallmark holiday”. Me, I like any excuse to celebrate, and anything that provides extra inspiration for creativity in the kitchen. So, this year I decided to play off the Valentine’s heart theme
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We’re going out of town this weekend, so we’re running a little low on groceries and I needed a dinner recipe that wouldn’t make too much food, since we won’t be around to eat the leftovers. I was thinking of making tacos tonight, because they are one of my favorites, and because I remembered that
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Okay, so maybe I’m not holding on quite like *that* anymore…but, you know what I mean. Today marks two months (or, 9 weeks) since I first started Humira on December 8, 2011. If you’ve been following my journey, you know that I’ve been struggling to determine whether or not Humira is doing any better than
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We recently inherited some new bedroom furniture from my in-laws. I’m actually pretty excited about it because it’s one of those convertible sets where the “bed” can become either a crib or a full-sized bed. So, when we need the use of a crib, we have one already. And, in the meantime, we finally have
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