You know how your cell phone buzzes and you get that little excited feeling? You know it’s buzzing because someone is thinking about you. They mentioned you in a tweet or sent you a text. Or maybe it’s an email or comment on your Facebook status. This evening my phone buzzed while I was talking to my mom. I ignored it since I didn’t want to be rude and promptly forgot about it until I got upstairs to my bedroom. Then I saw that magical red light blinking, reminding me of that little feeling. Who was it? So I unlocked the keypad and saw the message: “MTX shot” Are you kidding me??? What a let down! And how sad is it that I need my BlackBerry to remind me of that every single week? For those of you who don’t know, “mtx” is short-hand for methotrexate. It's the "gold standard" drug given to almost every RA patient, as well as those folks living with Lupus. Every Wednesday night I give myself an injection of .6mL (15mg) of the stuff in my stomach. The shot … [Read more...]