Living With Scleroderma

This is Molly.  After 14 years, I just had her euthanized as she had a very progressive cancer.  It broke my heart, but there comes a time when we have to make a choice and it was Molly's time.  All I can say is, she was the best damned dog a person could hope for. She was loving, intelligent, amazingly easy to train and has been with me through so many changes but never had a problem adapting to any of them. It has been almost two weeks now and I still look for her at every turn, still check her water dish to see if it's full, still look for her when I come home.  The list is endless and I simply can't imagine my life without a dog so have been in touch with one of the local rescue agencies where I am considering adopting a beautiful little 8 year old Yorkie.  Getting excited already.

The last time I made an entry here it was to report on our annual walk. In that context I mentioned how delighted I was that I had actually eaten a hamburger.  Well, I am equally happy to say that with very few exceptions, I have been eating pretty much every day.  And I've been eating anything and everything.  Today, while at the market, I had rice and teriyaki salmon at the Korean place and it was delicious.  I am presently drinking a beer, a Guinness, which is another pleasure I haven't indulged in for a very long  time.  There are days when my GI tract tells me I've had enough so I simply let up for two or three days until things settle down again.  I continue to gain weight by the way so my plan is, when I see my GI doc in September to see if I can cut back another night on my TPN.  If I can I will then have two nights a week off.  Won't that be a treat?

Also saw my rheumatologist a week ago.  My main question for her was about my self determined dosage of 5/10 mg on alternate days for prednisone.  She agreed that it was okay so I will continue with that regimen as long as is necessary.  We really had nothing else to discuss as everything is going so well.  Life is good!  Yeehaw!