I've been keeping my beady eye on you all - thank you for all the good wishes and nice things said. I hope you have all survived the onslaught of food and drink and Santa was kind to you all.
Now there is a bit of respite until New Year!
Seasons Greetings (at last) from PMRpro - PMRGCAuk
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Best wishes to you for 2023
Thank you Pro. How was your Christmas? Did your daughters join you in the Alta Badia? Thanks for your advice and support all year long. xxx
No, on my own. NHS staff rarely get long holidays at this time of year! They were here 3 years ago when the world was still sane!
I hope you had A good Christmas, you are such A caring soul , you deserve only the best , virtual hugs to you x
a very merry Christmas to you, I hope things have been good at what must also be a sad time for you.
Thanks for keeping your beady on us Pro - we do need it from time to time! Wishing you a good festive break and all the best for 2023!
we appreciate that “beady eye” more than you know. I thought of you looking out at your snow capped mountains. Sending love and hugs to the glue that holds us together. ♥️
I WOULD have looked at the mountains but for 2 days there was thick fog here - no mountains to be seen. Above it was brilliant sunshine but I would have had to get the car out to find it! It was clear plus temps up there though!
Same here in the Peak District with very low cloud, quite alarming to drive in when other vehicles suddenly loom. My kids are on the beach. 😐
What would we do without your beady eye on us. Hope 2023 is easier and calmer for us all.
Thank you for help you have given me and others.
I wondered what was causing that strange feeling of something boring into my back 👁. All good wishes for the coming year and thanks aplenty for all you give to this forum 🏅.
Happy holidays, Eileen, my friend across the pond. You've been a stable candle ever lighting our way, for years. Thank you. Happy Festivus, for the rest of us.Regards
Dan, in East central Florida
Best wishes for 2023! Let’s hope the new year will be kinder to us all!
thank you so much for all that you do. I think it’s appreciated by more of us than you can possibly know 😊
😘😘😘😘 ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank you Pro. Happy, Healthy New Year to you.
Quiet day for us today, but was wonderful yesterday.
Happy to say I've put on two pounds.....never thought
I hear myself saying that.
Hate to think anyone is one their own on Christmas Day.
But the wonderful NHS workers have to keep the wheels
turning for us all. I hope they fnally get the pay rise they're
asking for, they deserve it. What would we all do without them. X
thanks very much and thanks to all the super knowledgeable advice you and everyone gives to us all
I saw a photo of you once, you don’t have beady eyes; you’re rather pretty as I recall. Thanks for all you do, much appreciated here in the us and everywhere. Warmest Yuletide greetings!
DorsetLadyPMRGCAuk volunteer
Santa was kind…but still eating …and of of course the occasional glass of bubbly 🥂…but some of us have to do it on behalf of the group🤦🏻♀️
Sure you understand and appreciate that..
Someone has to drive ...
All the best to you as well. As always an inspiration to us all. Thank you for everything that you do and the inspiration you are.
As a relative newbie (GCA six months in) I have been most grateful for your beady eye, pillow tips, general advice and support. Here’s to a healthy 2023
Boxing day greetings from France to you and everyone here. Onwards and upwards. No rest for the wicked 🌲💕☃️
Merry Christmas to you and your beady eye! It’s what’s kept me sane on this long journey. Advice and a pragmatic approach from you and the other wise ‘experts’ on this forum have helped me through this ‘experience’!!
Best wishes for 2023
Hope you're having a good one and thank you for your sensible advice...always x
Thank you from down under, I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't stumbled across this forum with your wonderful support. Covid has been kind to me and I'm just about back to normal and fingers crossed my husband hasn't succumbed thus far. Again thank you Pro and everyone and a happy and healthy (as much as possible ) 2023. I along with everyone else appreciate your knowledge and advice. Janis NZ
We’re immensely fortunate and caring to have you oversee us all with such diligence. May 2023 be kind to you and everyone here. 💞
Best wishes for 2023 Pro and thank you for everything you do for us.
Wishing a very happy new year!!You truly deserve it.We all love to read your replies when we re down and worried.You are always there.Thank you for all the knowledge you have about this disease.We d be lost without you❤️
Merry Christmas from Canada - skiing so far has been ok but I am listening to your wise advice as ever ! Take care and thanks again for all the support x
Thank You Pro, DL & everyone on this forum. Grateful appreciation and warmest wishes from SookePoint, Canada’s South Pacific.
Believe it or not - I've been there!!!!
Wow! That is amazing! Are you sure you were at SookePoint itself, right beside the huge Wilderness Park, and not somewhere else in Sooke? You can see the Ocean Cottages online at SookePoint.com. I’m the founder and developer, so please let me know if you ever plan another visit, as I’d welcome an opportunity to host you as warmly as you’ve cared for me and countless others on this site! 🙏 Thanks & Hugs, Michael
No - just passing through! We stayed with a PMR friend in Pitts Meadow and came over to see the Island. We spent a couple of nights in Victoria and then drove around the coast up to Port Renfrew, stopping here and there on the way, and then made our way over to Nanaimo to get the ferry back to the mainland. I suppose we must have stayed somewhere in the middle but I can't remember. nuigini used to look after her grandchildren at Sooke too.
Shame it is a long way - I'd love to come back.
Well do keep it in mind just in case you can make it. Thanks again for all you do to assist everyone on this site. You, DL and the team of others too large to list are like Christmas Angels that have helped so many of us. I’m so very thankful to have found you all. 😘
And while that may seem at first blush overly effusive, I’d say it’s an understatement. When your understanding and advice helps transform debilitating agony and emotional despair into such welcome relief, along with a rainbow of hope, that’s a miracle for which all you Angels earn your wings. 🧚
Hope DorsetLady sees it
I have …but not quite ready for wings as yet, too much to do, but appreciate the sentiments 😉
Dunno - the state of the UK at present wouldn't they come in handy?
So long as they were capable of long distance…..;and over oceans 🌊 …
Maybe OK if you didn't fly too close to the sun?
😮…
Thank you for the wisdom and the fun - quite a combination. A beady eye now..... ??I already have your voice of sanity in the back of my head - patience ant not relentlessly aiming for zero! Much love for 2023 xx
thank you PMRpro I hope you had a good one and, pain free.
I hope the new year is kind to you and,I would like to thank you for all the help you have given to me.
🙏
Missed the Christmas messages unfortunately as folk staying here but very best to everyone and for a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. Especially you PMRpro as we all appreciate your care, compassion and commitment to this group, regardless of your own personal circumstances- thank you. 💐
Happy Christmas and New Year 2023 PMRpro! And to all on the forum- a million thanks.
Thank you. You too and thank you for all your help and support🎄😊
I don’t know what I would do without your ‘beady eye’! I seem to get everything wrong most of the time but your ‘beady eye’ gives me so much confidence to go forward into this year that I can feel some of my sense of fun and humour returning! Bless you and all the very best for you this coming year.
Very best wishes back to you for a peaceful and happy new year. Thank you for all the advice and support you give here. Xx
So sorry your girls were not able to be with you - hurray for FaceTime and telephones. I hope you had a happy day all the same, and thank you for your constancy all year long in helping us understand our PMR path. A true friend although we've never met.
You are like a mother duck caring for her brood, PMRPro. We are so lucky to have you. Blessings to you and all on this forum as we move into 2023.
Grey Muscovy duck sitting on her brood of baby ducklings
Seasons greetings! The journey would be immensely lonely without the wonderful advice and support of this forum. Thank you for your beady eye - very much appreciated. Here’s to health and happiness in 2023, when it comes 🥂.
I love a beady eye! I’m so grateful for your wisdom and always being available.
Wishing you all the very best for 2023 PMRpro and I hope the new year is good to you in every aspect.
I was sad to read you were alone for Christmas: But I hope you had someone to see during the festivities.
It’s just been hubby and I this year (thank goodness for FaceTime with our family in Oz), but we’ve got our son, partner and our little granddaughter arriving today for a few days, so we’ve enjoyed our peace before a 5-year-old descends on us🤣
Happy New Year! thanks for the good advice given over time, it has really been so helpful to me , when i needed it most ! Heres to better times ahead ! With my best wishes Viv 🌷🌷🌷
Seasons Greetings to you dear PMRpro, DL and all our wonderful gurus here. We would be totally lost without you! Have a wonderful healthy year ahead! Sending love to all! ❤️❤️❤️
Can you keep your beady eye on me please? I am currently suffering severe pain in right side of face, from the corner of my eye which is very blood shot, in an arc following my top jaw line back around to the bottom, up into my ear and down into my neck. Just before Christmas I rang my dentist as all my teeth became sensitive and felt like I had a bell on every tooth, I thought I had an abscess brewing and so did the dentist, without seeing me and prescribed an antibiotic which appeared to work. Christmas Eve the pain returned and I intermittently controlled with my current meds inc. Zomorph. Hopefully it is my gums or teeth but what if it is GCA? Am I overthinking this or should I check in with the doc too? Please advise oh wise one.
I would - though there are other things that could cause similar pain but it can be difficult to tell the difference. A tempromandibular joint problem needs to be considered - and even shingles! And it could still be an abscess - dentist again and maybe an x-ray?
Many thanks for all your useful comments and help. Have a very good 2023
All good wishes for the New Year. Your devotion to helping us all is without parallel. Thank you 🌸💕🤗
Wishing you a fabulous Healthy and Happy New Year to you and yours. X
PMRpro, your ‘beady eye’ has been a life saver many times over, thankyou. Wishing you a happy and healthier 2023 👍👍👍
Gratitude to you for that comforting beady eye and advice, and to our wonderful community spirit, very special. Here comes 2023 - best wishes, hugs and love 🙏💐🍾
Very best of wishes for your New Year, hope 2023 is kind to you. Christmas here was kind of lousy…Doctor had promised to ring to help me with acute pain (not PMR related) & he didn’t…no time, due to an ‘unprecedented number of requests for an urgent appointment’…I tried to get one from 1 December. Hm…then I cooked the whole roast meal on my own as a present for hubby who cooks 95% of all our evening meals..he sat down excitedly, his newly diagnosed diverticular disease decided to kick in, & his meal went uneaten, while he was ‘elsewhere’! Not quite what was hoped for! Sorry to hear of your fog, looking at mountains always brings some peace to my soul! S xx
Sounds a bit rubbish! Being on my own has some compensations - thank goodness for salad and fish that you can remove from the freezer and stick in the oven - the duck and venison remains there for New Year! The bivalent vaccine kicked my a.fib into action big time but it is very irregular in timing and when it coincides with needing to cook - forget it! 25th it was fish kebabs which left the living room a tad aromatic and last night it was smoked salmon. No shortage of desserts - a neighbour brought me a glorious sort of tiramisu Weinachtskuechen as well as the collection of panettone, Zelten (like UK fruit cake but more so), stollen and Christmas biscuits I already had. Didn't even get round to xmas pud and brandy butter (though Nigel Slater pointed our mincemeat and brandy butter do very nicely on panettone and substitute nicely for mincepies!!!!)
I am living next to the wrong people!!! LOL. I am glad they are treating you well in the best way possible...yummy treats. Thank you for everything you have taught me ...often ...10 times over!...Sometimes I'm a little slow especially when my body is screaming. I appreciate your humour and honesty....and then there's the bucket (may yours stay empty).
Anyway I hope you have a wonderful and happy new year filled with fog-free mountains. Xx
Have lots of treats which were presents, will last a long time!....massive apple and cinnamon pannetone!DIL rang xmas eve, son very ill with covid, obviously we didn't go as planned, Granddaughter brought presents round, she and DIL now positive, and so it goes on, they worry about me, but told them if I get symptoms I will double the pred, and hope the adrenals cope......
Roll on summer!
Sounds like you were doing OK, despite the AF (which my hubby has, my Mum had & my Dad had…hope it’s not in the genes!) We didn’t get to enjoy Christmas cake until today, Christmas pudding may find it’s way tomorrow, & the family trifle, another love of David’s, has barely seen the light of day!! Panettone is so popular in the shops here this year, all sorts of variations, too (eg pear & chocolate)! Zelten sounds good. Three neighbours have gone away, like a morgue here. Missing our next door friends & their little dog, whom we love so much! Happy New Year’s duck & venison sounds good…lot of venison round here, of course, but still ‘on the hoof’!! Most butchers sell it locally, as there’s such a good supply!! I made a mincemeat bread & butter pudding with a brioche about four weeks ago…advent time…yes, David of the sweet tooth, loves mince pies!! Take care & hope the fog stays away, S x
Strangely it is really difficult to find game here! The butcher and I suspect that it is a mix of those who do fetch their own of the hoof (the neighbour who brought me the tiramisu-type cake for example) or townies are scared of it so the demand is low.
I was fine - until the jab!!!! No problem the previous ones, just this bivalent one.
You surprise me…usually commoner in mountainous areas, we’ve found on our travels! Yes, fetching their own is not a surprise in your area, I guess, & no, townies unlikely to know what to do with it, perhaps! The bivalent jab gave me the first reaction out of any of them (previously Astra Zeneca & Pfizer). But, bizarrely, I was actually happy, I felt as if my body was at least ‘noticing’ it…but it only lasted 24 hours, & nothing compared to Covid itself!
Belated Happy Christmas and may the year ahead bring more happiness and better health to all you wonderful people and all us who need your support. So sorry for people alone, but owing to daughter and son in law having flu even those of us who thought we was having a family Christmas of sorts all be it a small number of family didn't eventuate. Just me and the deaf one without his hearing aids, still as someone said thank goodness for video calls. Your help has been even more greatly appreciated in this time of doctors in crisis. Have just had my first Shingix jab thanks to you, but had to get the Rhumat. depart at the hospital to allow the surgery to give that sort. A nightmare in itself. But all went well eventually. Your fishy Christmas sounded good even if not traditional for us. But our closest supermarket starting with T.... did plenty of half price meat!!!!xx
Merry Christmas 🎅 A massive Thank You for all your support and excellent advice X
You are my go to person because you have afib as well as PMR just like me and you are so knowledgeable. Thank you and a happy New Year to you! I just hope my heart behaves 🙃
Compliments of the season to you too, PMRpro. You have been a great help to me in recent years, even with my PMR "gone/in remission/hovering unseen in the background". With the break from work that Christmas has brought, I'm trying to taper off Celecoxib (not very successfully). Wishing you all the best for 2023,
Your expert knowledge and wisdom keeps us all going when we hit a rocky patch. You and DL and MrsN and all the wise-ones are amazing. The forum means we are never alone. Thank you so much and buon anno!
Thank you. Very best wishes for 2023. As always thank you for your excellent advice. Maryx
Wishing you a truly Happy Healthy Happy & Peaceful New Year! And thank you for being there for all of us when we need someone to listen to us. Your advice & comments are greatly appreciated❤️
Here's to Beady Eyes, PMRpro, especially yours and, indeed, all the other helpful experts here. As a 'newbie' I have found the advice you've all given, invaluable. All the very best for 2023!
Hope you had a good Christmas PMRpro and just wanted to say thanks for all of your expertise and help over the last couple of years. Very best wishes for a peaceful and healthy New Year 2023.
Thank you so much for keeping your beady eye on us all. Like many of us I have had moments of despair not knowing what to do or which way to turn. Knowing that I can post a question and get a prompt and compassionate response has kept me from going over the edge x 🌸
Thank you for keeping me informed for the last six or seven years. I would feel lost if you and the other contributors were not here on this forum for me to absorb the latest medical knowledge on all our ailments.
Cant let the season go by without my heartfelt thank you and best wishes. It just wouldn’t be right as don’t know where I’d be without this site and you and others like you. Someone said Christmas angels and that fits perfectly. Saved me a few times. To a healthy happy new year!
Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Thank you for all your support and advice over this last year.xx😁
Thank you for being a daily constant as we continue to navigate this PMR voyage. Got down to 7mg but the shoulder drain and pain seeped back. On 8.5 mg as a buffer until the new yearxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for all your wise advice and care x
Thank you for your wise advice you are so knowledgeable. I hope the NHS staff get the pay rise as they so deserve it. All the best for 2023 let's hope it's a good one for everyone.
Wishing you a Guid New Year2023.Many thanks for your useful comments this last year.Many people have gained help with your vast knowledge.
Merry Christmas to the wise one who is always here to help. Everyone has expressed their gratitude 🙏, I'm adding mine. I hope the new year brings you some precious time with your girls and continued progress on your journey. Sending some jolly good cheer 😊 🥂🌹
merry Christmas to Pro & one & all, & best wishes for 2023 .
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