Hello Everyone

[Guest guest]

Yes I know I am a stranger again however I am very busy at this point in time. I went to Gail's on Mother's day with some items that people had given me to give to her since her fire. She found a place but it has been a long haul for her--she has had to paint over some very dark colors etc. She got a good deal on Paint at Home Depot for $5 A gallon. It was paint that was mixed in error etc. however the colors are nice. My other sister and niece helped her paint one day and Sharon took her to the Goodwill store and got a lot of things for her there and then Wal-Mart, Family Dollar etc. The firemen were able to save her appliances which is good because she did not have any insurance whatsoever. She got some really nice looking furniture at Salvation Army close to her etc.

She got the pictures back from the fire and they are awful. It is a wonder that they all made it out alive and safe. The fire investigator told her that she was lucky to have landed where she did when she feel up against Jay's door and the door came open and literally threw her across the hallway up against a wall. A few inches to the left of where she landed she would have gone through the window and she was upstairs trying to get her room mate awake. He had to come out the window to his room once the firemen broke the window.

She is still not herself but I can understand why.

She hopes to have her computer back up and running on Tuesday. It had some water damage but she knows someone who works on them so he worked on it for her. Hope it works for her. She needs to get her mind on something else for a change other than the fire.

As for me I am very tired but keep on trucking as the saying goes. Tyler is playing ball this year and has practice 2 to 3 times per week then he has a game on Tuesday and then again on Saturday. So 4 to 5 nights a week are taken up with him and then he has the counseling appointments and I am so glad that he is going tomorrow as he has been a handful the last 2 weeks of being out of control and all that good stuff that he does to me. He got cussing and screaming at me yesterday afternoon and I had had enough of him for the past 2 weeks that I fed him dinner and he was in bed at 5:20 PM and slept until almost 8 this morning. I think that his meds need to be adjusted again, It seems like 5 months is the max that he can go on the dosage before they have to make an adjustment.

Had a rheumy appt on Wednesday and he was upset about the labs that came back in Jan showing that I have hemochromotosis. He was adamant that in order to stay on the Plaquenil that I have an eye exam or he will take me off. I told him that the insurance only pays for 1 every 2 years so he told me what to do and I called the insurance co and told them what he said and low and behold it was approved as non routine but medically necessary due to medication. He wanted me to call him and let him know what they said because if they refused he was going to make some calls. I have never seen him in a bad mood but he was this day.

Just wish I could check in more often. I do read the posts at lunch time however I can not respond to them from work.

Hope all is well with everyone and that every one is having a pain free day--ME-----NOT so lucky. That is a concern for me as the pain is getting worse and worse and he will not either change the medication or increase it so I am stuck for now. I guess.

Take care

Dorothy