Fatty Liver and move update

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Thanks to all of you who have been posting. I have been in the middle of

moving from Hawaii to Washington D.C. so I will no longer be signing Tracie in

Hawaii. My furniture left the island the first week of October and it should

arrive December 6th. I can't wait to get my own bed again. I was in a serious

flare before we left. I was dealing with recurring episodes of pericarditis, but

thankfully that has went away and now my arthritis has flared up.

Anyway, I just wanted to add myself to the list of people with fatty liver. I

am really concerned because my Mom was told that she had fatty liver when she

was about my age and they told her it wasn't anything to worry about. She had

to have her gallbladder removed a few months ago and the surgeon thought her

liver looked unusual so he took a sample. It came back that she has stage 4

liver cirrhosis. She does not drink and is not overweight. She has not yet been

diagnosed with Stills but she has all the same symptoms as me, fever, rash,

arthritis... I don't want to scare anyone. I just want you all to be sure to

keep a check on it. She did liver lab work yearly after her diagnosis, and the

results would be slightly off but nothing that sounded any alarms to the

doctors. I am concerned because I am over weight and the doctors are just saying

its probably because I need to lose weight.

Hope you are all having a flare free day and enjoy Thanksgiving!

Hugs,

Tracie in D.C.