I was thinking about you yesterday. I hope you spend your recuperation time on non-taxing things. I personally like to do crossword and variety puzzles as a way to decompress. Take care of yourself!

As far as I know, it would be typical of a chronic illness for a flare up of symptoms to be caused by fatigue and/or stress. I hope continued rest gets you feeling much better.

Thanks for dropping by to bring us up-to-date. So glad you're getting positive signals from your medicos, and I hope the remaining test results show continued improvement.

I'm glad you're enjoying taking it easy and finding enjoyable ways to pass the time. We all care about you and your well-being. Please keep taking care of yourself and drop in when you can!

Best wishes, CW

I hope you're able to lessen it... Glad to see the good news.

I am so happy for you and your news! As yet another person here who struggles with auto-immune illness, I understand how difficult it can be even when something new is going on. You find ways to live your life with this kind of thing in it, and you sometimes are forced to go where you have been these past weeks. Year after year goes by, you live, you love, you know exactly what people mean when they say "If you have your health, you are so blessed". There are times you face issues even further outside of your normal, and you hope and pray that you can say once again, "Whew". I'm glad you get a "Whew" moment today and I so hope that it extends to all of your tests.

I just turned 68 and I've been at my thing since I was 20, though I was nearly 30 when someone was able to put a name to it and a suggestion as to how to deal with it. I'm sure you know, as another long-term "medical consumer," the cures can be in many ways worse than the underlying issue. My husband and I just celebrated our 50th anniversary, and this man is a rock; he loves me, he helps me so much, doing all of the things that used to be so easy for me, sometimes he cries with me, and he so quickly notices when there are days that are almost normal.

My sister "shared" my disease, but it got her, at age 47. We were each other's support group in a way that was not possible with anyone else. We could giggle about the way we could never keep track of our keys (or many other items!) because we had the "air head" anti-inflammatory syndrome. I miss her so much, she's been gone for 16 years now. I could not ask her to return as she was when she left, but selfishly, I want her here anyway. But, again, I am blessed, because I am still here, and from time to time maybe I can help someone else because of what I have learned.

I am sure that your wife and your children are also letting out a huge sigh of relief for all of you today. Please, take care of yourself, be good to you.

Take good care of yourself and just watch happy movies.

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Great well soon, so you can be a regular contributor to the community. I miss your well written essays.

I'm so happy that the news is positive and that you are slowly recovering. Whew! Please keep us updated on your progress.

I'm sorry I didn't reply to your comment in the Good News Tues diary the other day. I left the diary after about three hours in and went back to rec some comments recently, then promptly got overwhelmed at the amount of comments to reply to, lol. (There were about 20.) I hate it when that happens.

Keep up that gettin' well shit, man! And watch Mr. Robot if you get too bored, it's pretty timely and political. Excellent cast and great writing.

I'm sure it must have something to do with your own inherent sense of looking forward.

Keep getting better.

Be sure to get plenty of rest in order to fully recuperate!

First - glad to hear things are looking better for you. I have had health issues related to the stress of this year as well and am slowly addressing them. I watch a lot of Netflix while I work on crafts, and recommend Rebellion - about a brief, failed attempt at independence in Ireland around 1916. I found it important because, while it was no match for the army of the British Empire at the time, it turned hearts and minds and independence came a few years later. I get few calls from the state Democratic party, but when I have, they get an earful that their corruption, the disgusting corruption of the primary and convention have meant they have lost the votes of my household, two lifelong Dems. My teen son is 17 and is viewing what is important in a different way. I know that the questions raised and corruption revealed in so many ways will make a difference that we cannot see just yet. Just take care of yourself and your family for now.