Yes it is true. It’s been a while since I posted last. But isn’t that nature of blogging? Or is it the nature of my laziness? I’m going with … nature of blogging. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

I guess I could say ‘Oh … I wasn’t doing anything because my hands hurt.’ Or … the steroids they put me on to decrease the inflammation in my hands, which it did, had me very depressed, which I was. Yeah two weeks of tapering steroids will do that to you. And to me too. Oh yeah. THANKS Harriet for correcting my perceived dosage plan. I’m glad you read my little pill calendar/chart. The steroids did help. Now that I’m off the steroids, the pain is back. Not as bad, but I’m still having ‘issues’ with picking up objects, or grasping. Yippy!

Thank you Hanz & Franz. Thank you Dr Mike. Steroids is the name. Treating Sarcoidosis is the game. Well as much as one can “treat” this disease. As Dr Mike told me today, “Sarcoidosis is the ‘soft’ diagnosis” for what’s going on with me. In other words … this is what we think it is. Now I will have to follow the yellow brick road from Emerald City Medical Arts to the pulmonologist he will send me to. But right now it’s mega-steroids for the next six day. I just took my first three pills. Five today. Four tomorrow … etc etc etc … for the next six day. So if I talk to you between now & then & I’m a bit “snappish” please forgive me ahead of time … for the drugs know not what they do.

Dr Mike says the roids will help my breathing “issues” … so that’s a good thing. I’m still not sure whether granulomas are forming in my lungs, along with the lymph nodes being enlarged. All I got from our meeting this morning was that the “shadowing” and the lymph node enlargement were probably causing my “breathing issues.” (My words … not Dr M’s.) From all the blood testing I STILL have elevated liver functions. This has been going on for a long time. My liver is also enlarged, according to images from an upper body ultrasound I had a few months ago. His thinking is that, knowing Sarcoidosis can affect any organ, my liver could have been the first casualty.