AT THE WATER’S EDGE:
LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
Blog Archive
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What's New in the Garden…Since Yesterday!
When I come home from work in the evening I like to take a stroll through my garden. I find it relaxing and peaceful and fun. I say that as if I actually had a large garden to spend time walking through — my garden area consists of a path about 20 feet long, leading…
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs & Pregnancy
Here’s a topic I’ve been able to find precious little about. So, I’ve decided to do some research since we do want to have kids someday, and it doesn’t look like my RA is going anywhere. While research shows that a lot of women experience a decrease of symptoms during pregnancy, there’s no guarantee that…
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Freezer Meals – Chicken Alfredo Pasta Bake
I’m trying to get into the whole idea of freezer meals — where you make larger batches of whatever you’re making and freeze some as an easy meal to reheat at a later date. I’ve been doing some of these for friends who have babies as an easy way of providing meals for them even…
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May Gardening Update
At mid-May I would say that my garden this year is well beyond where it was last year at this time. Certainly, my perennial garden has progressed much differently. I think all of my tulips came in May last year, but this year they’ve been gone for a couple of weeks now! Sadly, that means…
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Chicken with Mango Jalapeno Salsa and Couscous
Sometimes I go to the grocery store with all of my meals planned out for the week and an organized list of ingredients that I need. This week’s grocery shopping trip was not one of those times. I had a vague idea of what I had in the pantry, but not really any clue what…
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Thunderstorm
I’m not much of a poet, but in college I had to take a creative writing class which involved writing LOTS of poetry, among other things. One of the poems I wrote was about thunderstorms—where I tried to capture my simultaneous fear and fascination of storms. I do get legitimately freaked out at a big…
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The Sed Rate Saga: Headed in the Right Direction
It’s time for my next update to my ESR chart. You can read about the Sed Rate Saga and my switch from Enbrel to Humira to treat my rheumatoid autoimmune disease back in December. I’ve been tracking my Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR / Sed Rate) –a measure of inflammation — since that time, trying to…
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My Relationship with God
A friend of mine asked me a tough question the other day. Tough in the sense that it’s hard to give a concise answer. But it got me pondering. The question posed was this: “What does your relationship with God do for you?” To compound the challenge of trying to be concise, this question was…
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Health Time Capsule
So, I signed up to receive prompts from WEGO Health for the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge – it’s supposed to be one post each day. I thought it might be fun, but now I’m thinking I can’t commit to doing this every day right now. Nonetheless, I will participate where and when I can.…
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A Twist on Patient Reported Outcomes
Many rheumatologists have seen the benefits in measuring patient reported outcomes, rather than only relying on visible symptoms and blood tests to show disease activity and treatment efficacy (although, judging from other patients I’ve heard from, perhaps not *enough* doctors…). Patients definitely see the benefit in this as we know that we know better than…
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