Our Father's Day and Update

Sorry I've been so out of the loop. Things here have been a bit off. I've been having a really hard time the past month and a half or so with severe hip and knee pain that has gotten to the point where I have been laid up on the couch at times. For example, Wednesday was so bad that it hurt to move and of course I didn't have a chance not to move with 2 kids. I had taken 6 Advil, 2 tylenol and a load of Biofreeze and Icy Hot on me throughout the day and it wasn't helping. Oddly it comes and goes, transfers from one joint to another. With my history of having a very unexplained rash (which some was Poison Ivy but not all), fever, sore throat and loss of voice in the beginning of May my PCP had me tested for Lyme Disease. We won't get the results of that test until Monday.

Yesterday my Rheumatologist fit me in at 8am. With no babysitter that early I had to bring both of the kids. Ooh, was THAT fun. (I tried to convince him to write me a script for a Nanny and a Housekeeper but he just laughed- I guess he didn't realize that I was serious. ;-) ) He examined me and sent me for more bloodwork. He did feel that I had a lot of symptoms that pointed to Lyme Disease but that doesn't explain my life long history of Raynauds Syndrome, extreme fatigue, Inattentive ADHD and headaches. Earlier this year I was seeing him for my Raynauds Syndrome and sores it was causing due to the cold weather. He was concerned about Lupus, Scleroderma and a few other things but thank goodness everything came back clear. So I had to drag the kids to LabCorp again. He's on the lookout for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Polymyalgia Rheumatica (which happens to people over 50 which I find odd) and something else along the same lines that I don't remember along with the Lymes. Oy.

SO, that's the reason why I've been so out of the loop recently! Enough complaining. Here are some pics of our Father's Day visit at my parent's house. :-)