Six Years Since Diagnosis

It's been unseasonably warm this weekend, just above freezing, sunny with calm winds so I've gone out for coffee both days. Tonight we are to get a significant snowfall with snow all week but not enough to be a problem. Today's weather put me in a gardening mood so I transplanted and repotted a few of the plants I've been neglecting. Felt good to get my hands dirty.

Just realized tonight that it was February of '04 that I was told that I had scleroderma. As I've stated elsewhere, the first couple of years were the worst as far as progression goes. Range of motion in my joints remained pretty much unchanged. The next four have been about my weight. As I sit here writing this the pain in my knee serves as a reminder that joint pain, which has been very mild over the past four years has returned and with it some loss of range of motion in my right arm and possibly my right knee. I have been taking Celebrex since October but it's not been very effective. I should probably phone my doctor but I hate to bother her so will probably wait until I see her in April. We'll see how it goes.

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