...Barely tolerable, I daresay...

Happy Memorial Day everyone.  I hope all of MS had a lovely weekend, or at least a good one!

K and I decided to go to the cemetery yest to see if everything was OK with his parent's gravesite.  As we were fearing, the lovely tree that stood over their marker was cut down.  It was the only tree cut down on that bit of the road, but there was a whole line of tree stumps further south towards the middle of the cemetery.  We knew it was a possibility that the tree would be gone since we'd read there were many trees taken down due to death or disease.  K's dad must have been appalled that they took the tree.  He was so fond of sitting under the tree on his weekly visits to see K's mom's grave.  The stump is pretty hideous and they left the marker completely covered about 3" deep in sawdust.  We were beginning to wonder if something had happened because we couldn't find the marker.  I decided to follow a hunch and dug under the sawdust to see if that's where the marker was.  K had been getting a bit agitated that we couldn't find anything, so I'm glad I followed my hunch.

Some people have disinterred their relatives because of the troubles the cemetery is having.  K's aunt has her parents and brother buried there and she's talking about having them moved to Forest Lawn or somewhere.  I think it would be rather creepy to turf someone out of their "final resting place" just because the cemetery is having problems.  Now if they were going to shut the place down or build over it, I understand.  Otherwise, that's just creepy.  Ew.

My joints are still aching pretty bad.  There's still a low pressure weather system over CA and that's all I can think of as the cause.  My joints hurt even at rest and that just seems quite wrong to me!  I've iced my hand, arm, knee and hip and it helps from the aspect that I lose feeling and feel frozen.  Heat doesn't seem to be helping at all and that's unusual for me.  I was reading at About.com that hypothyroid pts have more instances of joint pain and fibromyalgia than pts who don't have thyroid disease.  They figure it's related to the hypothyroid being an autoimmune disease and that may cause other autoimmune responses.  Dry eye could also be connected.  Good grief, I'm tired of falling apart.

Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm in agony or in 10/10 pain.  But even a 3/10 or 4/10 on a constant basis is wearing.  When it amps up to include almost my entire right side at one time, it's miserable.  Yesterday, Just going to the cemetery and walking around a bit exhausted me.  I came home with a splitting headache and slept for 2 hrs.