Hi peeps - again

[Guest guest]

Just popping back in for a spell to say HI and catch up. Looks like the Board

is doing what the Board does - cheering and informing and supporting and

gritching a little where gritching is needed.

Hi all! Hi Newbies! Welcome.

Well what is new with me? I had a pneumothorax October 2 with accompanying

chest tube, again December 26 without the tube, and again on January 12 with a

VATS to glue the Evil Twin (right lung) to my chest wall and also to clean out

some of the fibrosis, with accompanying 2 chest tubes. My right side looks like

the shower scene from Psycho.

But I feel better now and my sats are better without some of the cloggy stuff in

there. I don't recommend 2 tubes at the time - especially pulling 2 at the same

time. Way not cool. But did I mention feeling better?

Hopefully the surgeon and pulmodude will release next week so I can go back to

work.

Also I have a new psychiatrist who says I am Level 2 bipolar and depressed - ya

think? And also the new psychologist who is helping me work on stress. Why

would I be stressed?

And then there is the rheumatologist who says I am going to need a new right

knee what with the RA and all and that still nothing shows up on my lupus test

but he agrees something is there and we are going to treat it. And he upped my

Lexapro and added hydrocodone for the pain. But I did mention I feel better,

right? He is the one who invited the psychiatrist into the picture. Might have

been the crying wall-eyed fit I had in his office that day. But I feel better.

I am so tired of all this non-specific crap that is eating away at me

relentlessly.

All of that to say I am hoping the last 3 months of gathering-gloom have been

worth the light I see just right up there a little ways. Turns out depression

feeds illness feeds depression. Go away all ye evil depressions. Be gone.

Don't we wish it was that simple? But I do feel better.

S, Lubbock TX

NSIP w/PF 12/2006 et al