Aging is not for whimps!

Wow, it has been a really long time since I have blogged. I really like it too. A diary for big people! As I logged on today I find my niece has also recently blogged. She is incredibly funny so it was a nice surprise to find her back blogging too!
Lately an uninvited guest has been visiting me. His name is Arthir and he is a real pain in my....... ankles, fingers, and knees. I hate to go to the doctors and avoid it at all costs.  With my "little" cancer episode, I find it necessary to visit the doc at least once a year.  I ususally have several complaints on that visit. This year she was keyed in on mamogram, pap smear, dexascan, colonoscopy, and btw why is your blood pressure so high? Phhhh..... All I came for was to see about my stiff swollen fingers and painful ankles!! Geezz..... After $1000.00 worth of blood test, yep not even kidding, guess what?  I have arthiritis!! Noooo really?? My sister and I have been refering to out aches and pains as "polio" much to my nieces dismay, well until she devloped "polio" of her own that is.  If you think 30 sucks, wait til you see what 40 and 50 has for you. Just sayin... Anyway, I get a referal to yet another doctor for my arthiritis and guess what?  Not taking any new patients, well that's great.
I badgered my gp doc into treating me and she gave me a script for Meloxicam. Ok, lets do this, wait, what? The side effects and warnings hurt worse then the arthiritis, yikes, Am I really going to take that?  Still deciding, ibprofen is getting me through the day for now. I have been blessed in so many ways to complain seem wrong to me. Buttttttttt, her I am.
I have been border line anemic since I was 12. In my early 20's technology advanced to the point of figuring out where that blood was actually going.  "Bleedy thing" in my stomach called angiodysplashia, "gee we don't see this in young people, just older folks". Guess what? Nothing to do about it unless it gets really bad then they can go in and cauterize it.  Just keep taking your iron.  Okkkkkkk. I acquire a mole on my back that is not very attractive, so I go have it checked out.  Oh that's nothing, just a sebborheic keritosis, a barnacle if you will.  Just leave it be.  Then I acquire these little soft rolly nodules under my skin, wth?  On no those aren't anything, lypomas, never cancer, just leave them be. Hmmmmmm Mamogram shows something at 42, probably nothing, WRONG!! SOMETHING!! Lumpectomy, radiation, chemo and 5 years of tamoxifen. More lypoma, more seb K, and now arthiritis, I am only now 54!! Yikes not looking good. I seem to have gotten all the weird junk. How does that work? I guess we will take it one day at a time.  That dexascan, which I have had one already, and the colonoscopy which I have also had one of, will have to wait till later.
This aging is definately not for whimps!