Saturday, February 11, 2012

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Living with Asthma
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What If You Have Asthma & You Get the Flu?

If you follow my shareposts at all, then you are probably aware that I strongly encourage my readers who have asthma to get immunized against the flu every single year. It's recommended by asthma experts and flu vaccination is safe, easy and fairly inexpensive... and certainly well worth it.   But I know that not every person with asthma... Read moreChevron
posted 02/10/2012, comments (0)|
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I enjoy camping, music, arts and crafts. I am looking forward to enjoying the company of those with RA and struggle with depression like me. ;-)
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I've been kicked to the curb, but I'm getting back up now.

I haven't done a share post in a while, so I thought I'd share. I've been through a rough patch this last year. I had carpul tunnel release surgeries on both hands which required me to stop my Enbrel for a while. That caused multiple really lovely RA flares. Then after years (5 to be exact) of my complants of pain in both my elbows, I... Read moreChevron
posted 01/15/2012, comments (6)|
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Nutrition and COPD - When Keeping Weight ON Is a Problem

A while back, I talked about how to eat healthy to avoid gaining too much weight when COPD makes it hard to stay active and burn calories. But many people who have COPD actually have the opposite problem -- keeping weight on.   As your disease progresses and makes breathing ever more difficult, you can find that the mere act of eating a... Read moreChevron
posted 05/27/2011, comment (1)|
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RN health writer & family caregiver for a person living with COPD
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New Blood Test May Detect COPD Much Earlier Than Traditional Diagnostic Methods

COPD/Emphysema often goes undiagnosed, sometimes for years, after it actually starts to cause damage to the airways and lungs. As the third leading cause of death in the United States, this is problematic.   When COPD is not diagnosed and treated, damage to the lungs can occur that could have been prevented or at least slowed down. And that... Read moreChevron
posted 05/05/2011, comment (1)|
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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
posted 04/13/2011, comments (16)|
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