Guest guest Posted August 13, 2005 Report Share Posted August 13, 2005 Dear Friends in the RA group: Just a note to all of you as I need your prayers, the ole RA is affecting my heart and lungs and has been for over a year now. I just had the pleural space of my left lung drained while in a CT scanner and a CT of my heart yesterday at the hospital. I have pericarditis and rheumatoid lung. The fluid gives me pain in my upper back and I cough and am short of air and the pericarditis gives me chest pains and I have had it for several months now. I know this to will pass as it hasn't been continuous. I had sepsis infection in January and was in the Poudre Valley hospital in Ft. Colorado for nine days in ICU, I almost didn't make it my blood pressure was 53/32 and they told my family if I had waited until morning I would not have made it. Please pray for me and my problems. Also my RA is out of control and I have really been hurting as I have been on high doses of prednisone because of the fluid and heart problem and they are now bumping me down and when I dropped to 30 on Monday I got really bad. I would appreciate hearing from anyone in the group about these current problems I am having. I love this group and I don't get to post to often but I read most all of the posts daily. Hoping to hear from anyone in the group. Love and Prayers Shirley Edmis3@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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