A Close Call - Menadione Sodium

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Hi everyone,

Just couldn't stay away and thought I'd let you have an update.

Fortunately I wasn't eligible for the drug trial I went to see about - it

was for Menadione Sodium Bisulphite in the treatment of patients with

active RA. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the rheumy I went to see

would not say whether I had RA or not, BUT he did say that I had OA PLUS

something more severe!! Mind you, my RF has jumped to 151, everything else

is normal, but he really wanted to see deformities, swellings AND nodules!

LOL, he seemed a bit taken back when I mentioned I was only on Minocyclene

and a bit fo prednisilone when I flare up. Seems they don't like to dx RA

here unless you have all abnormal bloods, as well as all the rest!!!!!!!!

Anyway, just had another test for RF and ESR and I guess these will be like

all the rest - abnormal RF and normal ESR.

I've been taking care of my Mum's house as well as my own - she has just

had a shoulder reconstruction and get this - as soon as she had woken from

the op she was told she could go home (she had a morphine drip in at the

time). Anyway they allowed her to stay another day and when my sis and my

Dad went in to see her, they had just taken the drip out, dressed her,

packed her clothes and told them she was being discharged!! My sister

asked for her pain medications and they said the doc hadn't ordered any.

My sis said 'Of course not, he's supposed to be coming to see her in

hospital on Friday and she was supposed to stay in a week!' Anyway the

sister in charge got real uppity about it until my sister whipped out her

prescription pad, wrote a script for panadeine forte and said to get this

filled! They realised then that she is a doc! Boy, were we wild - but

this is the state of the health system here - go in and have your op and

then you're out, no worries about any complications. Mum had had a heart

turn while she was under the anaesthetic and that has given us a scare as

well.

So, that's why I've got a double lot of housework to do. My dad has

emphysema and can't do much, though we have got the Red Cross coming in to

shower Mum which takes the bending and kneeling away from me.

But, boy, do I ache when I get home!!! No time for the next six weeks or

so, but it's great being in a home filled with love and caring and sharing

now.

Anyway, this must be about a month's worth of mail in one, so I'll just zip

up for the time being,

Love and hugs to you all,

Jude.

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