Ankylosing spondylitis wife, mom, and grandmom!

Even though we're all back to school and routines, life with ankylosing spondylitis doesn't end.  A thought, wouldn't it be great if we got a summer break! ha!  I'm still waiting on that "remission"...which I don't know of anyone ever in.  Truly the only reason I love "back to school" is because that means it's college football time!    Even the pups love some football.  This is my sweet english bully, Bailey cheering on her DAWGS while my daughters cutie, Kovu cheers for his team, the JACKETS.  My daugthers BF starts for them--when you're watching TECH he's #63! Off topic--This year we have some folks calling us "traders".  We are HUGE Georgia Bulldawg fans..always have been, but this year...this year especially, we'll be cheering on Georgia Tech just as hard!  Thing is, those that call us traders, they don't have the connections like we currently do!  Do you personally know folks on the team you cheer for.  I...

My last post I talked about how I had a spinal injection--well, it was literally a roll of the dice and I'm not a gambler and really dont' believe in "luck"..my hope was that this almost $1000.00 roll of the dice would amount to something besides regret that I've wasted sooo much money.  Well, 1000 dollars later and the visit to the DR for her to see how everything went--yea, sometimes it doesn't work on the 1st injection so we'll schedule another.  But, also after the exam, she says your shoulder is really "aggrevated" so let's do an injection today--sigh..sure.  Let's just say that hasn't helped either! Get the call from the surgery center and they let me know my cost that will be due that day of my 2nd injection--almost 600 dollars??!!  And that's not the Drs portion either--OK--this roll of the dice isn't going to happen!!  Even though in my mind, I say what if it actually helped...sigh Having a chronic disease is EXPE...