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Hmmm, wife may prefer me to have arthritis!!:D

After 34+ years with the same organization I must admit I'm getting a little tired. Why did I stay so long? Because I've been employed as a problem solver changing jobs every year or so with constant new challenges. Did I say I work in a bank? Wherever there's a problem I get parachuted in...

This is at Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation - one of the premier health care providers in Chicago. https://www.nmff.org/home/default.asp

LOL! That and spending a huge amount of time on Google!

spondylarthropathy I asked him about the HLA-B27 test and he said that as people without that gene can develop spondylarthropathy, and as some people with it never do, then neither a negative, nor positive, test would mean much.

Thanks Jeanie. I will consider that course but I must tell you that I have difficulty accepting that course.

Discussed changes which have occurred over the past six weeks and he was really very unconcerned. When I mentioned I had been doing research on line and wondered why he had made the diagnosis he did given: a) appears predominantly in males under 40; b) seems to start in the spine, he told me...

Got the blood work done yesterday and finally got an earlier appointment for next Tuesday the 18th. Hopefully I'll know more then.

Ted, I wrote this a few years ago, i.e. before Eapis. I have to take the time to update it but it still has some useful info.

I emailed the doctor earlier. Here is his response: "None of this is inconsistent with a diagnosis of spondylarthropathy." He does want me to come in for more blood work though. It gets frustrating!

Yep, that's what he currently thinks, but my back is the only part that doesn't hurt (at least more than normal). I am seeing one of the top rheumatologists at Northwestern Research Hospital - not sure where to turn next.

I'm not really looking for medical advice, per se, but some other ideas to ask the rheumatoligist I am seeing about. He's scratching his head as well.

At least that's what the specialists are calling me! I'm hoping one or more of the docs on the board can come up with some ideas. May 10, 2009, I noticed my right knee was a little stiff. I thought mybe I had sprained it or something opening our cottage. By the end of May it was getting a...

Never got the 2nd notice.

Used to be a great day trip when I lived in Sarasota.

Would have been but I was gone by then. Just back.

Hilton Times Square sometimes has deals under $300.

This often happens in the case of bank repossessions or DEA seizures.

As I write this sitting in a hotel in NYC, I'm recovering from what I think is a bad case of food poisoning. Had meetings at a lawyers offices yesterday and he served roast beef sandwiches for lunch. Two hours later I was bent over the porcelain God unloading lunch, previous night's dinner and...

How about next Sunday the 18th?