It has been a painful and expensive weekend.  Started with a toothache on Friday afternoon.  Suffered through it while I had both the hot water tank and living room fan replaced on Saturday.  Sunday was continuing with both Tropical Storm Isaac and the painful toothache.  Monday, went to the dentist who immediately sent me to the guy who did a very painful and expensive root canal!!!  Ugh!!!

So now I sit here at work with a sore mouth, and by the time all is said and done,$ 2000.00 poorer.

Agghhh!    7 lbs lighter though :-)

Good Morning!  Well, I am feeling a little better today.  Went to the Rheumatologist yesterday and he decided my pain was too bad to continue cutting back on the steroids.  He upped them, as a matter of fact, but only for a week.  He has also started me on some Rheumatism medication which takes about a month to really start working.  So now I am on another pill, plus I have to take folic acid along with the rheumatism medication.  Just call me the pill lady!!  But I did get a decent nights sleep last night with just one dosage of the upped steroid.  It felt really good!

Will this ever end??

The weekend was interesting.  The air conditioning man showed up at 5pm and installed the sensor so the water wouldn't overflow anymore.  He commented that it was an awful lot of water on the floor (I ran a big fan for 2 days to dry out the carpeting).  Well Saturday morning when I went to take a shower, I could not get any hot water!  Well, guess what!  It wasn't the air conditioner that overflowed... it was the hot water tank that broke.  So, it has been cold showers for the past 3 days.  Not to bad in Florida in the summer.  The water isn't that cold!!

I have a friend at work whose husband has been out of work for a couple of years, so he has started his own little fixit job.  After talking to Linda, he can come on Saturday and replace the tank.  I thought about getting one of the waterless ones, but it is only me and it is only one of those short stubby tanks.  I wouldn't be saving that much energy by getting a waterless one!  I know I will be taking cold showers all week, but if it will help my friend out.... I will wait a few days.  Plus, he is going to replace the ceiling fan in the living room that blew the circuit breaker when I turned it on a few months back.  I could use a fixit man at my house for a few weeks, I think!!!

So Saturday afternoon I decided to see if I could find a flapper for my commodes.  They are the old Standard brand and the normal flaps don't fit well. (Against what they all say on the outside of the package!)  It has to sit exactly straight, or it drips and drips and drips and then reloads the water again.  I had decided to go to a plumbing parts store and if he couldn't suggest anything I was just going to replace the whole commodes.  I am very tired of replacing the flappers every couple of weeks!  He suggested a retrofit of a bigger flapper and an additional rubber piece.  I thought, yeah, yeah....... this will work like all the others!!  Eureka!!!!!  It took about 2 minutes to install and it works perfectly!!!!  I could hug that wonderful man!  I am going back tonight to get another one for the other bathroom!!  I was my own Mr fixit on that one!!!

Had a nice birthday Wednesday.Lots of facebook friends greetings, texts from the grandkids, (grandaughter felt bad that I didn't have a cake so she made me one on her ipod and sent it to me via text message.  During the day, I got a nice phone call from Sismo, and when I got home there were flowers and a balloon waiting for me from daughter, son in law and the grandkids ( very pretty) and then I received a phone call from Sissip, and a nice long phone call from daughter.  Her card has not arrived yet and I told her I would call her when it arrived.  We talked about her first day back to work and then about her knit night.  She really had me laughing!

For some reason, I was in terrible pain Thursday, so I stayed home.  Couldn't work from home because the x#&@* computer wouldn't log onto the server at home!!

Today I am at work, but woke to water all over the hallway where the air conditioner is.  Called my air man and he is in Orlando taking his son back to college.  He is going to come late this afternoon after he gets home!  Geez!!  What a week!!!

Today is one spectacular day!!!!  I got text messages from Jake,Matt and Emily for my birthday!!!  Woohoo!  That makes me feel all warm inside!! 

Nice weekend!  I don't know what has helped the pain...... but I am going to say it was the cherries I ate!!!!  Yes, they are an antiinflammatory food and after I started eating them the wrists quit hurting as did the fingers.  I can now twist off bottle caps and pick up my coffee mug with one hand!!  Woohoo!  Now it might be the Naproxen that I am taking twice a day, but.... naaahhh.  Cherries sound better.  I have been researching what foods will help bring down inflamation and I am going to try to eat these regularly!  I am slowly getting off the steroids and I need something to offset the decrease of assistance they do.
Working from home today.... and have already been at it for 2 hours.  I started at 5:30am.  I wish I could sleep at night.  That would help a lot in my overall health and energy!