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Nan

Nan

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44yr in Southern Alabama

It's me again

Just got back from pt and same old thing, very little movement. I guess its steady as she goes. I do love the corn husk machine though I would love to have one. It blows hot, ground up corn husks all over and around your hands for 10 minutes. It feels like grits or cream of wheat for the northerners in a whirlpool. She let me put both hands in... Read moreChevron
Nan

Nan

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44yr in Southern Alabama

5 weeks after surgery

I guess the posting problem has resolved itself, yea. I'm still not able to do anything with my hand except shower without the splint. Its starting to get annoying. I tried to pluck my eyebrows the other day, no luck, I can't hold the tweezers tight enough yet. My left hand can't take much more, It is sooooo sore. It lives in a splint too most of... Read moreChevron
54 years with RA

Fifty-Four Years in the Making, My RA onset story by Lyn Burnstine

I always say I got RA in 1956, when I was twenty-three, but reading some of the other stories on RA blogs of "early warning signs" years before full-fledged RA, I am more than ever convinced that the times when I had to cancel my piano lessons due to sore wrists were omens. At nineteen, I left the music conservatory at Millikin University to marry... Read moreChevron
Rena

Battle of the Med.'s, the Mind and My RA.

     I am going to have to revisit my medications and evaluate what is working and what is not working...Again!  I guess that is just going to be how it is for those of us with RA.  We start a medication and some work well and some have to be stopped due to side effects or etc.  Then...the ones that do... Read moreChevron
Nan

Nan

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44yr in Southern Alabama

2 weeks after surgery

Hey everyone, It's been 2 weeks since my surgery and I'm doing well. They removed my trapezium bone in my right hand and replace it with one of my arm tendons, then tightened things up. I'm still in a splint not aloud to move my thumb or wrist for 2 more weeks. I've been to PT 4 times but only to wash it and change the dressing. It's healing... Read moreChevron

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