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True but we also like to educate people about health issues so hopefully you learned something
You guys are funny. Here is my educated two cents on arthritis of which there are many forms and many degrees of tissue involvment due to tumor necrosis factor (leave the rest to you doc).
I live way North.....planning to buy a second home soon near my son and his family probably Peoria or up the 17. In any case, My POINT is =) I will let you know which is best as I have AS *Ankylosing Spondilitis HLA B27 positve (doc?) and really do feel the wet is no damn good for me......it has been a very wet "summer" up in the misty mountains of Eagle River Alaska and while it is surreal GREEN and beautiful I long for those warm days and nights where my body just feels grreat! See ya in March for Spring Training ......' OH! before I forget Phoenix Lady....you are correct. Typically most MD's enjoy having the last and I do mean the last word.......
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Howard Roark -- I'm kind of surprised that you would want to be in the SoBay of LA in May and June. That's one of the main reasons I want to move away from here. And now that June Gloom is still extending all the way into mid-August, I'm even more compelled. That San Francisco-type fog is just murder on my joints. I just heard that this is the coldest summer in LA since 1932. (Haven't confirmed that, but it's definitely the coldest in the 13 years I've been here.) IMHO January is one of the best months weather-wise in SoCal.
AADAD -- could it be that you are also an MD? You did have the last word after all! LOL
I hope you will feel better once you move into the dry climate. I decided to give it a year and see how I do. I hope it won't take that long to notice a difference. :-/ The current plan is to go out to Phoenix for a week or so in September to get an apartment lease that will start in October and then move out mid-October.
Another question: does anyone have a recommendation for an on-line service in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area for apartment/condo rentals? For example, we have one here that is called Westside Rentals where you pay a fee for a 2-month subscription and it shows all the currently available rentals. Most people I know out here who need a new apartment use that service. Anything like that in PHX?
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True but we also like to educate people about health issues so hopefully you learned something
I think whats more applicable here is (condensed) "he does protest too much." There's some other issues going on here that are probably obvious to the masses you're trying to educate.
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Yeah it's kind of wierd. But the June gloom actually started in July IIRC. Now this August gloom is starting to have an effect on my shoulder once again. In the winter when it's supposedly drier in the SoBay, I was swimming back to back days about 4,000 yards and a total of 20,000 yards per week. That is probably why I got severe shoulder pain and was worried about arthritis settling in. Now I forced myself to rest my shoulder on alternate days by running. The pain I now feel (by this August gloom) is not as severe as when I swam consecutive days.
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Howard Roark -- I'm kind of surprised that you would want to be in the SoBay of LA in May and June. That's one of the main reasons I want to move away from here. And now that June Gloom is still extending all the way into mid-August, I'm even more compelled. That San Francisco-type fog is just murder on my joints. I just heard that this is the coldest summer in LA since 1932. (Haven't confirmed that, but it's definitely the coldest in the 13 years I've been here.) IMHO January is one of the best months weather-wise in SoCal.
Five years ago my mother was 78 and living in Western Pennsylvania where the weather is humid and the winters are expecially DAMP along with the ice cold. She had advanced arthritis -- all over her body, but especially in her neck, back, and hips -- required a cane to walk, and had gotten to the point where she was unable to do all the household tasks required to live alone.
I moved her to Tucson, Arizona, into a disability-friendly one-story house. When she got here, she could not walk to the mailbox a block from the house. Within six months, she was taking a daily one-mile walk around the subdivision. I'm not going to tell you this has been a miracle cure. She still walks with a cane and her disease has continued to progress in terms of its crippling effect. But she has astoundingly less pain, takes fewer drugs, is still able to complete more tasks than she could do five years ago, and still walks a mile a day even though she is now 83.
I am convinced that had she remained in Pennsylvania, she would be dead by now, either from issues associated with the extreme pain she was in, or due to an accident caused by her limited motion capacity. The dry heat has definitely been a boon to her health.
I think whats more applicable here is (condensed) "he does protest too much." There's some other issues going on here that are probably obvious to the masses you're trying to educate.
Part of the MD role is to educate people......he is doing that and it is helpful IMHO.
Jukesgrrl -- thank you for your post. What an awesome story. I wish your mom many more healthy and vibrant years! I'm hoping the same will happen for me. I'm pretty sure that the weather won't slow or stop the downward progression of the disease, but even a little relief from the pain without toxic medicines will be a huge change.
I think whats more applicable here is (condensed) "he does protest too much." There's some other issues going on here that are probably obvious to the masses you're trying to educate.
If it wasn't obvious to an intelligent person like you then I assumed it wasn't obvious to the masses.
The hilarious thing for me is if I ever had a holo deck, like on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" I would be happy in a starship with that holodeck and where the nearest star is a billion light years away. I mean I am happy with an air conditioner that works too well and leaves me cold - in Phoenix, and don't have to have the "fresh cool air of an ocean breeze" to be happy.
I always found it amazing about people who must live right on the beach and see the ocean. Oceans have always been way overrated, IMO. They are blue. They are boring. Not much happens on the surface! LOL. And you have to pay over $1,000,000 for a structure built in 1950 on the ocean front so that you won't have to pay $300 per month for air conditioning four months out of the year! GOOD GRIEF!
No, I don't "have to" live near the ocean. No one does!
Good quality air conditioning in my Arizona apartment while I relax on my high quality Arizona Leather sofa and watch a game on my TV is my holo deck. The wintertime - being outside is like frosting on the cake. And the dry air is so soothing for my bones!
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Jukesgrrl -- thank you for your post. What an awesome story. I wish your mom many more healthy and vibrant years! I'm hoping the same will happen for me. I'm pretty sure that the weather won't slow or stop the downward progression of the disease, but even a little relief from the pain without toxic medicines will be a huge change.
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