wispfox

I have been, and stayed, out of flare for over three months.

I am currently able to work full-time, and am starting to try driving myself to work and home again one day a week (40 minutes each way).

I am up to 2lb weights in my wrist/arm strength work, even though driving to work and back takes one of my strength work days away so it's only once a week right now. (this is from barely being able to handle .5lbs without flare concerns)

I managed to stay out of flare even with writing by hand more last Saturday than I usually do in months, if not a year. And I'm reasonably confident that, even though I usually have trouble keeping my train of thought and organization while writing by hand, I succeeded with both (I sorta wonder if having had to keep my train of thought through having forced computer breaks every 15 minutes - now 20 - helped with this), and most probably got at least the 'competent' that I need.

I can help around the house now, some, without worry over causing myself to go back into flare. Sweeping is ok. Mopping (with my feet!) is ok. Emptying the dishwasher is ok. Tidying is ok if I'm careful how much I do. I don't need aid to wash my hair. I can do my own damn laundry (carefully). I can go grocery shopping on my own (theoretically; we'll see tonight). Reading as much as I normally do is reasonably safe again.

I can type for a reasonable amount without worry about flare (I still watch for it, and take breaks as appropriate - my _god_ I take so much more time to type than I used to!), thus having posted more in the past few weeks than I had for a year. And thus being able to have reasonable email conversations, and thus not have quite so much trouble with LDRness as I was last year (I _need_ to be able to type to process things, much of the time. This is bad news when I could not easily do so for a year).

I'm actually feeling reasonably social again, now that I'm having less of my energy going toward handling my damn wrists and everything that entails.

I'm probably going to be able to take a class in the Spring, without worry about flare.

I can ever do IM with my far away sweetie again.

I can has hands which let me show affection and sympathy and have actual pressure behind hugs again. And sometimes let me be more interactive with people I'm dating. (It is _SO_ frustrating to not be able to use my hands with people I'm dating)

I can has hope that my hands will stop always requiring attention and awareness to this degree, ever.

I also clearly randomly wandered off into lolcat speak. I blame