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    Could I have ninety days of meds instead of thirty?   

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Update on sacroilliac 
    Easter Sunday afternoon I was able to get out of a chair 
without the walker, and improved rapidly.  (Yay, steroids!)  
    I'm still sore in the lower back.  Sometimes it 
manifests only as itching over the lower spine.  It hasn't 
interfered with my activities, not even the bike ride to 
Mentone and back.  I'm most likely to notice it at night. 
    The numbish spot on my left thigh is now frankly numb, 
and bigger.  Sometimes I'm aware of the borders of it.  It 
hasn't become painful, but I've been very careful not to 
stand motionless too long.  It never shows up when I'm 
walking, as it did when we first moved here (2001) and I was 
not accustomed to walking. 

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    The rotator cuff took a long time to heal, partly 
because I was aggravating it when I thought I was sparing 
it.  It still isn't right, but that arm hasn't been right 
since it spent eight weeks in a cast after I broke my 
collarbone 

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    I want a stronger walker, just in case. 
    I've been to the Pillbox and to CVS.  It doesnt seem to 
matter which walker I get as long as it has eight-inch 
wheels and a cloth pouch, rather than a wire tray.  I 
thought I should talk to you before buying one. 
    
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    I've been feeling not quite right in the belly.  It's 
never advanced to nausea.  I thought it was the hot weather, 
and put oatmeal in my "switchel" (ginger, lemon, and honey), 
but it also happens when I stay indoors, and has continued 
into the fall.  
    But it's less often than it was, and seems to happen 
only when I'm riding soon after a meal. 
     
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    I still get wrinkles in my socks when I'm not wearing 
socks, and sometimes feel that something is stuck to the 
ball of my foot.  Seems to happen more on the left than on 
the right. 

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Probably nothing: 

    I had almost a week of draggies in August:  tired all 
the time, loss of appetite, slightly-elevated temperature.  
No cold symptoms.  

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     Riding to Mentone and back on the third was thirty-five 
miles where my previous best was twenty-two.  I walked a lot 
of hills, but felt "not all that beat" after a shower.  Felt 
it in the back for a few days.  (I really should take 
aspirin for the inflammation, but I'm accustomed to ignoring 
pain and never think of it.) 
    
    Got exhausted activating my new phone on the sixth.  I  
also needed a long nap after a picnic that afternoon.  The 
draggies didn't start until the thirteenth, so I don't think 
any of the above were related, unless fatigue set me up to 
catch a bug.  
    
    The draggies were  still there on the sixteenth, but 
only sign on the seventeeth was that my stomach felt a 
little off while I was riding to the dentist, and I realized 
later that I hadn't had my omeprazole. 

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