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If you’d ever dropped a lighted match (or torch), you’d know just how inflammatory those arts can be!   (Reminds me of what a co-worker said about my desk last week…… <G>) — eeyore (Due to spam, my return address has been slightly altered.  Just take out the obvious.) Shelwood wrote – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> hey, i think i took Inflammatory Arts in junior high!  there was wood shop, > metal shop, technical drawing, electricity… oh, wait, that was *Industrial* > Arts, wasn’t it?  hmm, maybe the Inflammatory Arts was debate class?         (snip) > Shelley

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Well of course you can take a world tour.  You can piggy back on Krissys tour when she goes to TWACKing people with her wrist braces,  Cant remember exactly Char – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Does this give me an excuse to go on a world tour looking for the > stockroom? <bg> > — > eeyore > (Due to spam, my return address has been > slightly altered.  Just take out the obvious.) > charlotte le fleur wrote > Shelley is right.  If you have more than 3, you must return the excess to > stock.  Only 3 to a customer.  (Hope you get some help soon.) > Char

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>If you’d ever dropped a lighted match (or >torch), you’d know just how >inflammatory those arts can be!  

hey, i shoulda thought of that!  all those silly years in fire school classes, and i forget what a fire hazard all those artsy fartsy things can be!  duh! oil paint, linseed oil, saw dust, kilns… Shelley

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Not to mention all the acids, solvents, heavy metals, glass dust, particulates, and just plain toxic chemicals!   Amazing how the safety rules can get so complicated for just a fun little hobby…… — eeyore (Due to spam, my return address has been slightly altered.  Just take out the obvious.) Shelwood wrote – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> hey, i shoulda thought of that!  all those silly years in fire school classes, > and i forget what a fire hazard all those artsy fartsy things can be! duh! > oil paint, linseed oil, saw dust, kilns… > Shelley

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Shelley is right.  If you have more than 3, you must return the excess to stock.  Only 3 to a customer.  (Hope you get some help soon.)         Char

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Does this give me an excuse to go on a world tour looking for the stockroom? <bg> — eeyore (Due to spam, my return address has been slightly altered.  Just take out the obvious.) charlotte le fleur wrote > Shelley is right.  If you have more than 3, you must return the excess to > stock.  Only 3 to a customer.  (Hope you get some help soon.)        

Char

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>The inflammatory arts are one of the things I > DON’T have.

hey, i think i took Inflammatory Arts in junior high!  there was wood shop, metal shop, technical drawing, electricity… oh, wait, that was *Industrial* Arts, wasn’t it?  hmm, maybe the Inflammatory Arts was debate class? sorry, eeyore, that just struck my funny bone. i do hope they figure out what the heck your body is doing.  seems like it is quite over your 3 disease quota.  greedy hog {{{{hugs}}}} Shelley

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Actually, I’m waiting for Sears to get the right parts in to their Body Shop!   Wasn’t the Puppeteer planetary rosette last seen heading off toward M31 or somewhere equally far?   I think Delany’s system (as in "Triton") was easier!   (Larry also needs to have his knowlege of arthritis updated.) The inflammatory arts are one of the things I DON’T have. . . .    (I’m not gonna say "yet").   So far, it’s just the diabetes (type I), Hashimoto’s, Vitiligo, and (maybe) Sjogren’s (the RD isn’t sure, but he hasn’t offerred any other explanations for the dry-to-nosebleeds nose, and the dry-to-corneal-abrasions eyes), and Fibro.   And my Endo says Auto-Immune Poly-Glandular Failure Syndrome, which seems to be properly called things like Poly-Endocrine Deficiency Syndrome (I seem to have Type III, unless the adrenal glands quit, which will make it Type II).   (I could happily have waited decades before wanting to know any of this!   Of course, that would have meant I’d also have waited decades before *needing* to know any of this <eg>) The SS may be a key question here, as the AI syndromes seem to separate into organ-specific and non-organ-specific, and the 2 types are not usually found in the same body.   Everything EXCEPT the SS is organ-specific.   SS is non-organ-specific.   If I’ve really got SS, I’ve got a much better chance of developing things like Lupus and MS and the inflammatory arts, and all those wonderful things I’d rather not have to worry about!   (It’s not that I don’t love you guys, it’s just that I’d like to keep a little medical distance here! <G>  (worried whimper)) At the moment, I’m not on any of the DMARDs (well, there’s the Pred for the hives, but I’m weaning off.  Had a bit of hives this morning, but they responded nicely to 7.5mg of Pred and 200mg of Benadryl).   With the organ-specific AI disorders, the tmt is to just replace what the organ was producing, although I’ve heard of some experimental therapies trying to stop kids with antibodies from developing diabetes.   The Allergists were enthusiastically recommending life-time Pred, but with some of the other problems, I don’t think I want to consider it unless things get a lot worse.   (We’ll see what happens when I’m off the Pred. . . .  )   There’s a chance that the allergic rxn is mostly caused by more thyroid problems, but the test results aren’t back yet.   And I don’t know if increasing the thyroid will just result in my producing more antibodies in a vicious cycle, assuming that’s the problem.   I’ve already had to increase the thyroid several years ago, but nobody checked for antibodies then, just circulating T4 levels.   (Altho, wouldn’t low thyroid also explain some of the fatigue?   But I’m not having other symptoms. . . .  ) And just to have one more reason not to think DMARDs are a great answer for me, I’ve already been on Mtx, as part of a 3-drug chemo.   All 3 drugs together didn’t affect my immune system at all for 4.5 months, and then the change was small enough that it could have been the emotional stress that led me to stop chemo a month early (they don’t tell you, or they didn’t tell me, clearly that chemo has a tendency to cause menopause, which is often permanent.  I was 34 at the time). What I will definitely be getting, the next time I see my dr (any of the zoo of them!), is a referral to Kaiser’s Mental Health dept for stress reduction.   I’m already taking all the meds that would be prescribled for the FMS, so that’s about the only thing I haven’t tried.   (My mother insisted on sending us to family therapists for years, and I’m an ex-psych major, so I have major blocks against psych therapy.   I can out-manipulate any therapist I’ve ever met! (hostile baring of teeth)   But biofeedback might work, though at the moment, I think my major source of stress is all the recent dxs!) Another interesting question is, why now?   My sister has also been having increasing problems in the last year, which seem to be immune-system-related.   She’s lived in the UK for the last 30yrs or so, has what I’d consider a horribly healthy lifestyle, and is an accupuncturist and practices Chinese herbal medicine.   About the only environmental item we share, besides artistic interests, is our parents.   OTOH, they were over here last August, several months before my, her, and her son’s health problems started escalating.   And auto-immune problems are supposed to be very, VERY strongly family-related. sigh.   It does help a lot to have everybody here at asa, where most of you have medically complicated lives and KNOW what it’s like not to know what your bodies are going to do from day to day.   I may be unique, but I’m not alone.   And all of you have given me the courage, and the knowlege, to stand up to those doctors who try to dismiss me as just a complainer who should be shrugged off. Thanks, all of you! — eeyore (Due to spam, my return address has been slightly altered.  Just take out the obvious.) Prtyobscur wrote – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Gee, Eeyore, > I’d be pretty frightened, too.  I hope your doctors had something to say about > this?  Like how would they treat it…with more immune suppression? > If I remember correctly, you suffer diabetes as well as inflammatory arthritis? >  Are your taking one of the powerful immune suppression (besides prednisone) > drugs already – methotrexate or imuran?  Sheesh, I’d be burning up the medical > pages for info on this one.  Did they give you a name for it? > Please keep us informed.  And post often so that we know not to check your > basement for pods <g>.  You need one of those puppeteer gadgets…whopped off > your righthand head?  It’s okay, we’ll just pop you into the machine and let > you grow a new one! > Hang on…hollar if you need us. > Warm regards, > Angela > "Life’s too mysterious to take it all so serious!"

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eeyore-Sounds like one of those things that makes you go," Hmmmmmmmm".  Let us know what they tell you. Dont be scared.  You wouldnt hurt you, now would you? (now smile!  just a little one.)  Try not to worry.  That really is counter productive. Char

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>Yeah, I