On the 18th I finally have insurance. Sadly I know I'll met my deductible fast, but I'm staying positive that this will give me much better care meaning less pain and more movement. My left arm won't extend open all the way. The elbow keeps swelling up taking up to 75% of the arm movement away. Thankfully this doesn't hurt unless try to force my arm to open more, which I do several times a day because I want it to move. I saw a doctor at the clinic about two weeks ago for the arm and he prescribed prednisone. The is a funny thing we mean a prednisone. Small doses once in a while help a great deal, too much and prednisone does more harm then good. For some reason when my body thinks it has had too much of prednisone it will swell up, make me dizzy, and/or cause my heart rate to up. This does ended up being too close to the dose I was just on a few weeks prior to this... I woke up on Saturday night with leg cramps. The cramps started in my right foot, so I pulled my l...
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