Stabbin' Day!

Oh yay!  It's "I get to stab myself with a needle day!"  Lucky me!  I know, the sarcasm fell flat, huh? 

Today I take my Humira.  Thankfully, I only have to do it every other week for now.  I go to see my doctor next month to decide on a higher dosage or possibly lowering it.  If it was not for my children I would have surrendered to this disease a long time ago and I would have a colscopy bag on my stomach.  I have been through every possible medication they give for crohn's.  Pedinasone, Asacol, Remicade (IV infusion every 8 weeks), and now Humira. (Those drugs being the biggest)

Last year after the birth of my daughter, Arabella, things got really bad.  My body started to swell.  I had never been in so much pain in my life.  Which you may know that is not good as swelling of your body cuts off the blood circulation and can lead to limbs being cut off or even death.  So now I have a Rheumatologists on my team of doctors to help me through all this.

So far, so good.  Humira seems to being working and my arthritis isn't flaring.  Every morning I wake up I can hear my baby girl saying, "Momma, Momma" over and over again.  My other daughter I find laying next to me and my son always comes in at 7am to wake me.  They are my inspiration and my pain drifts away because of the smile they put on my face.

Anyways, its TGIF!!  Hope it's a good one!