Wow. Thanks all.

My GP is male, but he is more in tune with my autoimmune symptoms than my RA consultant who is a woman.

I was on high doses of steroids but am weaned down to 1mg per day now. This is not counting the occasional use of inhaler for the habitual cough (caused by blood pressure meds).

My husband reads to me at night. I can't settle myself into reading anything long or complex on paper or screen. The latter very worrying because my job requires occassional extensive and complicated reading. I worry about the depression bit Maeve. I think this might be making it difficult for me to write on the obit and Jane's Rainbow threads. I feel bloody awful for what people are suffering but I can't draw forth words to show it. That makes me feel ashamed.

I like the idea of printing out some of my poor writing and typing examples to compare with ones that show better functioning.

Another thing. I recently started picking up logic puzzle books in an effort to exercise my brain. It is really weird that occassionally I crack them quite easily but most of the time, I just can't deduce the solutions from the few clues provided.

I had to rewrite this post several times to get it to make sense (switching paragraphs around, correcting basic grammatical and spelling errors). It took 25+ minutes.