I actually felt pretty well last week – having less fluid in my system made a big difference!  I don’t know exactly why, but yesterday I woke up feeling like a big balloon!  I am retaining fluid even worse than before!  My joints will move, but ache and feel like they are so full that they really don’t want to.  Very uncomfortable day yesterday and honestly hard to move around.  Today I think there is a slight improvement, but still not back to where I was and feel like I should be.  I guess there will always be ups and downs, right?  Keeps life interesting!  I’m drinking tea like crazy, trying to move around some (even though I feel like plopping down somewhere and not moving all day) and eating low carb.  That really helped me drop fluid last week.  I have to laugh – it really is like being 9 months pregnant some days!  The same friend that I shared the story about in my last post, told me yesterday that I hung up on her mid phone conversation!  I answered her call on one of our regular cordless phones (my CapTel is upstairs and I was downstairs at the time).  Sometimes I do okay on the regular phone and sometimes I don’t.  Turned out this was a time it was very difficult and I THOUGHT we were done! lol Oh well, luckily she understands and we had a good laugh!  I wish I’d done a better job of documenting all of the mishaps and misunderstandings that have occurred in the last 12 years due to hearing problems (for me and my hubby!).  There have been some really funny ones.  I’m sure there would be enough material for that book I’ve always wanted to write! 🙂