Update

So it's been a while but I have some updates. I saw my Rheumatologist on Tuesday and got some bad news, I knew it was coming, but it still wasn't great to hear it.  The drugs aren't working.  My hip pain isn't just the muscles, its the muscles complaining because the hip joint is getting worse.  I knew it was bad but I guess I was trying to blame it on the muscles.  I got sent down for x-rays and got twisted and pulled in all sorts of directions while they tried to get some good shots.  By the time we were done that I was hurting, I couldn't deny it at that point.  The stuff they were doing shouldn't have hurt me if it was just general muscle pain.

However the new drug cannot be given at home, it has to be given in a clinic with several nurses and a Doctor in attendance.  I'll be going back to the same clinic that I was at before with the Remicade, but its just so had to coordinate work and doing the IV's.  Especially if I wont be able to drive after the first couple of times (they load you up on gravel, and the drugs don't make you feel great) AND I have to get it done during work hours, AND I'll miss the next day of work, AND my parents will have to drive into the city the first couple of times to come and pick me up.

My best friend is wonderful and offered to have me stay at her place after words, but the first couple of times until I know what its going to do to me I would rather be home in my own bed when its over.  So that should be starting just at the first of July.  I have a meeting at work next week with my bosses to duscuss time off, and hopefully giving me access to the work files from home so I can do a bit of work even if I have to take several naps during the day.

This weekend I stayed at D and C's and barn/dog/cat sat for the weekend.  All of the critters were great, and it was SO nice to go out to the barn in the morning and feed breakfast in my PJ's!  Both Lucas and Chilly got worked a little bit, we got a delivery of steel for the new run-ins, and I had a nap with a cat cuddled up to me.  My allergy's were so bad it was awful, but it was nice to snuggle with animals for a whole weekend.

I added some pictures, I said I would take more this weekend and I even tried to get one of Chilly but she's still kind of scruffy so it will wait until she gets a hair cut!

Lucas eating breakfast outside on Saturday morning.

The cat is not on the couch, she is on me, and that doesn't count as being on the furniture.