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		<title>How does swelling go down the drain?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, really.  I have a decent $40 thinner scale. About nine years old.  I play with it a lot, weigh myself multiple times; it&#8217;s usually within a few tenths of a pound.  I weigh myself before showers &#038; after. No diff.  Unless I am swelling up. Then I lose a pound in the shower. Maybe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2012/02/how-does-swelling-go-down-the-drain/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s like tinnitus, but not, but like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hear the electrons scream. It&#8217;s more than tinnitus (which I do get a blast of from time to time, bad enough that I can&#8217;t hear out of the affected orifices). If there are electronic devices on around, I can hear certain pitches of voltage. In a house with two televisions, three desktop computers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2012/01/its-like-tinnitus-but-not-but-like/</link>
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		<title>Breaking out of corrective footwear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I did this stupid thing and it hurt my foot and wah. Because of the stupid thing I was in a soft kind of nylon shoe not cast but cast-like thing. And it hurt, because, well, my foot frikkin hurt. And I wasn&#8217;t wearing my corrective shoes, just a shoe and this &#8230; thing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2012/01/breaking-out-of-corrective-footwear/</link>
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		<title>Okay, so I&#8217;m off to see the Rheumy &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask about screwed up shots Note that I&#8217;m on a reduced allergy dose because of themassive psychotic dreams Note that I&#8217;m off the antidepressant that reduced the massive psychotic dreams Note that I&#8217;m on a reduced Allegra dose because of the massive muscle cramps Note that I&#8217;m off the antidepressant that reduced the massive muscle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2012/01/okay-so-im-off-to-see-the-rheumy/</link>
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		<title>Annnnnd &#8230; we&#8217;re back, baby!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re on a new channel. A comedy central, if you will. Okay, too much Futurama. But I need to get back into blogging, keeping track of this and me and pain and life and research. New things &#8211; Kelly Young is paying attention to the idea of RA, as always, but also to the more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2012/01/annnnnd-were-back-baby/</link>
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		<title>New one on me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[it is possible to mess up those plungy shot things. WTF. I got it in but pulled up a little too soon and a bit dribbled out and down my leg. Now the foot itching has begun &#8211; damned if you do, damned if you don&#8217;t. AUGH. I need a drink.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2011/05/new-one-on-me/</link>
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		<title>31 Days Hath May &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or maybe my smartphone is smarter than I. I&#8217;ve been messing with my meds, some intentionally, some not. I&#8217;m getting on to the end of my &#8220;month&#8221; which I define as the last sunday every month. Which is probably stupid but whatever. My smartphone wants me to go on calendar days. How dumb is that? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2011/05/31-days-hath-may/</link>
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		<title>Finally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve thought of the thing to say that is least likely to get me punched to folks hopping out of their placarded vehicles and sprinting over to the latte shop. &#8220;Wow. Isn&#8217;t is wonderful having a pain-free day? Good for you!&#8221; Not dead yet, just a bit whelmed.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2011/04/finally/</link>
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		<title>So that bite?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if it was a bite. Probably was. Leg flared up and hurt unlike the other time I had an infection &#8211; maybe I do have psoriasis, you dumbass. The raised redness, the dry flakiness of the skin &#8230; yeah. Which went away after rest and stuff. I finally got around to trying that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2011/04/so-that-bite/</link>
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		<title>I found another blog!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one in 200 &#8211; and she&#8217;s started updating again!!!! http://understanding-psa.blogspot.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hurty-gertie.com/blog/2011/04/i-found-another-blog/</link>
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