Well - he did it. Berry passed his Grade one Gundog Test yesterday with a merit pass. His sit and stay was absolutely spot on - he sat like the proverbial statue as I walked away from him and never moved until the examiner told me to call him. His walking to heel was brilliant (apart from the ...

I wish I could take a day off and spend it in bed.
I wish I didn't have RA.
I wish someone could find a magic cure so we never had to suffer this any more.
I wish I could sleep better at night.
I wish people wouldn't look at me and think I am well just ...

Saw the Podiatrist yesterday. Firstly, I no longer have plantar fasciitis in both feet! I did at the start of the RA 4 years ago but he said that would normally have cleared up within a matter of months and I don't have it now.
But I do have arthritic changes in the bones of my ...

Just had the results of my shoulder x ray. No arthritic changes to the joint are showing, despite the pain I am in but a lot of soft tissue damage.
So will see the physio soon and will tell her as she may want to change the treatment she is using. So that is the good news (!).
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Still in considerable pain. Can't put my feet down to the floor as they are so painful and swollen. Shoulders (both) are letting me know they are there and I have agonising pain in my groin on the left side which spreads right round and down my leg. Makes it very difficult to even walk so ...

Havejust fired up the computer as have been too ill up to now to do anything about blogging. Tilly cut her foot last Thursday afternoon whilst out across the fields. That caused me a lot of worry. When I worry, I tense up and then the RA starts up as well. So I have had since last Thursday ...

How I hate this disease and what it does to me. By mid evening last night, knew I had overdone it with trying to look after sick hubby, walk the dog in the pouring rain, toiling up and down stairs (it is the stairs which finish me off sometimes) with a tray of eggs and toast and tea for his ...

Lazarus finally heaved himself out of his sick bed having had a cup of tea which stayed down and some medicine to settle his tum. Worrying about the pickles he had left soaking on Sunday. Told him they could wait until tomorrow but he said they would be too soft.

I was sitting ...

Well, I feel really sorry for our friends in the North with the awful weather they have been having. Watched the news on TV the other evening and the Orkneys were covered in snow and I expect the rest of Scotland is as well.
Snow has fallen in the North of England mainly over the ...

3rd session with the physio today. As I had had my sub clavicle something or other injected on the 18th November, she really put me through it. Shoulder was really painful afterwards but has settled down as the day has worn on. I have also got a resistance band to use - bright yellow - Berry ...