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Blog Archive
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Spring Flowers and Planting
I have been thoroughly enjoying the mild March we’ve had this year. I say mild, but what I really mean is HOT! Not only has it not been cold, but we had a couple of weeks of 70-80 degree temperatures. That’s weather we’re lucky to get in July! Needless to say, I’ve spent some time…
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Getting an Early Start on Gardening
I was planning on the beginning of March be the start of my gardening season—meaning, I would start some seeds indoors to be transplanted into my garden after a couple months. I did start some seeds: tomatoes and several types of peppers. I also put some lettuce seeds in a container, to hopefully get an…
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Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
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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Tracking My Progress
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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Humira Evaluation – Building the Doctor-Patient Relationship
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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Three Months of Humira
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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Winter House Project: Take Two
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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My Take on RA Treatments & Decisions
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 Recipes
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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Tasty Tostadas
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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