mikewint
Captain
The benefit to living south of the Mason and Dixon Line is tha all that white crepe was melted and gone by the third day
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I set aside most of the afternoon, and all of this evening, to do some modelling, but the RA has decided to go into 'flare up', with swollen and extremely painful wrists. Can't even lift a coffee cup - b*gg*r !!!
Gave up 76 years of driving today. Gave our 2013 Malibu with 9,971 actual miles to our son.
at6
1st Sergeant
Sorry to hear that Bill. Your son is so lucky as that is really low mileage. And people think my 84 Toyota is low with 125,000 original miles. If I may ask, why did you have to give up driving?
at6
1st Sergeant
Ouch!!!!!!!!!!Hope there is something that you can take for the pain.
I chose to give it up. I still feel comfortable behind the wheel but I will be 93 in April and it is time. Tough decision but the right one.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Sorry to hear that Bill, but I guess you know when the time is right.
AT - not a lot I can do bout the pain, except take pain killers and / or 'brufen', which subdue it slightly. Had a fairly restless night, but it's eased a little. Still painful, but on a scale of 1 to 10, it's now about 8, where before it was around 15 !!!
AT - not a lot I can do bout the pain, except take pain killers and / or 'brufen', which subdue it slightly. Had a fairly restless night, but it's eased a little. Still painful, but on a scale of 1 to 10, it's now about 8, where before it was around 15 !!!
mikewint
Captain
Terry, don't know what your particular regimen is but there are two relatively new approaches you might try if you are not already doing so. One of the most important new classes of drugs for treating rheumatoid arthritis are the DMARDs (Disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs) which can often times slow or stop the progression of RA by interrupting the immune process that promotes inflammation. However, they may take up to six months to be fully effective.
These RA drugs are often used along with NSAIDs or glucocorticoids. The downside is that because DMARDs target the immune system, they also can weaken the immune system's ability to fight infections and the drugs can also harm blood cells or certain organs such as the liver, lungs, or kidneys.
Biologic response modifiers are a type of DMARD. They specifically target that part of the immune system response that leads to inflammation and joint damage thus they may slow the progression of the disease or help put it into remission. In general BRMs are taken in combination with methotrexate and are given by injection and/or by IV. They are expensive (at least here in the colonies) and their long-term effects are unknown.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Yep, I had a course of one back in September (Ritixumab), given in two sessions of IV, two weeks apart. It works, but of course the odd case of 'flare up' still happens, more so at this time of year.
It probably hasn't helped that I'd been doing some fairly fiddly modelling stuff, where the lack of dexterity puts extra strain on the wrists, and also lifting my mobility scooter over the door step - 35kg is a lot heavier than it was when I was in my thirties and forties !!
It probably hasn't helped that I'd been doing some fairly fiddly modelling stuff, where the lack of dexterity puts extra strain on the wrists, and also lifting my mobility scooter over the door step - 35kg is a lot heavier than it was when I was in my thirties and forties !!
mikewint
Captain
Isn't everything...Except maybe my fork!
Not today but last Wednesday, to those who drive left hand drive cars outside the UK this may seem normal, but actually it was in the UK and the clown was flying around the roundabout on the wrong side of the road. Took a while to figure out downloading and resizing from the dashcam. It scared the life out of my wife I was expecting a police car to be about 2 seconds behind.
fubar57
General
Internet is brutal in camp this week. I've already had to log in for this session twice in less than 5 minutes. Every page takes at least 2 minutes to load, if there are a lot of pictures.....forget it. In 3 days I am already 6 pages of new posts behind.
The building in the background is my wifes workplace which is a university, probably a student, I frequently have to stop for Chinese students on the exit to that roundabout, they glance up from their I-Phones and look the wrong way before stepping under my front wheels.Probably was an American tourist...
SANCER
Senior Master Sergeant
... or some honorable citizen of Mexico City! (We are reputed to be the wildest at the wheel!Probably was an American tourist...
)The traffic and rush in this beautiful city are the best factory of imprudent and driving beasts!
That could be my complaint of the day, ... well, of every day!
I only said that because:
1. We Americans overall are terrible drivers. I hate to say it, but it is true. Decades of parents "teaching" their teens their own bad habits, and laziness is starting to become evident.
2. When living in Germany, seeing an American soldier or spouse turn left into a traffic circle was common.
I posted here years ago about watching one American woman enter a traffic circle, miss her exit, and instead of just continuing around until she reached the exit again, she stopped and put the car in reverse. Seriously...
... or some honorable citizen of Mexico City! (We are reputed to be the wildest at the wheel!
The traffic and rush in this beautiful city are the best factory of imprudent and driving beasts!
That could be my complaint of the day, ... well, of every day!
The Italians and Egyptians say hello.
SANCER
Senior Master Sergeant
We would be happy to send them a few million drivers ... and traffic would still not improve here. For the sake of the Italian and Egyptian friends, ... I hope it never comes true!
In my experience many countries have a "way to drive" which when you know the in written rules means you can get by reasonably safely. Saudi Arabia and China are exceptions to this, things happen there that mean it is just a pure lottery.
I was in Mulheim Germany when they laid the first traffic circle (roundabout) it was absolute chaos for months, always the same accident, car goes to pull onto the roundabout changes mind and stops, car behind sees car in front pulling off, pulls off himself watching traffic then hits the car that has just stopped in front.
