Getting schooled by a toddler

Well my bunny is off to her first day at school and I had to wake up early to get her there. A hard task for someone who can't fall asleep until 3am. This is all pred induced insomnia. I hate it. It's the thing about the drugs I hate the most. It's a cold and rainy day outside, just like I remember all of my first days at school, but Hana was indifferent as she had no idea what to expect. She went forward with a big smile. A good lesson for us all. Life is always unknown, tomorrow is always unknown, and if you move forward with a smile and no expectations, outcomes can't really disappoint. A lesson learned from a toddler.

Heading into the Elementary School.

On a different topic. I've just checked out the stats on this blog and am amazed at the visits I've had and some of the new friends who are reading it. Thanks to you all for coming to my pages of ramblings. This inspires me to pull up my socks and get working on the two projects I started out with. I'll keep you posted on the progress. I know it's moving slow, but life seems to trump the computer, so I'll try and focus better. So here are some of the countries that have peeked through the keyhole of my Jasper; Canada, Sweden, US, Norway, Australia, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, New Zealand.

So welcome my friends, and lets work together to make a difference. I have to say that since I've gotten diagnosed, I've heard of so many people who have WG or Vasculitis and have gone through a painfully long time of misdiagnosis and various medical runaround that I don't think this family of auto-immune diseases is as rare as people think. I think there is more people walking around with it and not knowing they have it than we know. This is why awareness and research is so important. I think new doctors coming out of school are more tuned to it, and we need to do something to alert the long term practitioners to look at and diagnose all of people's symptoms together rather than treating one at a time and missing the correct diagnosis. My dad went to a doctor a few years ago and was trying to tell him what was wrong with him ( he had several symptoms presenting at the same time) and the doctor REFUSED to hear more than one symptom. Told him he has to go out and wait for a second appointment to get his second symptom heard, and so on for the third and fourth (this after dad had waited for over two hours to see him.) I was sooooo totally pissed when I heard that, I wanted to go and wring the doctor's neck. Needless to say dad never went back to him - even though he had been with him since the guy started his practice. Jerk. That is not medicine, nor a doctor. This is what we need to eliminate from our medical system. Doctors who forgot what doctoring is all about.

Ooops. I think I might have ranted there a bit. Oh well. Have an awesome day friends.