Update on Kimmer

Great News!!

On February 1st Kimmer started taking a new medication, Humira, to try and control her eye condition and other ailments.  The other meds they have tried, her body has not responded to well.  This medicine is a shot she had to do once a week, I don't know about you, but I don't like shots, so having to do one at home, to me is even worse.  It was not an easy task to get the shots done.  The doctor called the Rx into the speciality pharmacy and they called to verify our address and shipped it out.  (This is not a med you can just pick up at your local pharmacy.)  There was no explanation from the Dr on how to do it, just a booklet of pictures and instructions with the medicine.  I called a nurse from our church and asked if she could help us walk through the shot, for at least the first time.  We went to her house for the first dose and Kimmer was a little nervous, but we got it done without much incident.  The second week, I was thinking it seems easy enough, we'd try it at home ourselves.  HA!  Well, just as I started the injection, Kimmer jumped and the medicine starts flying across the dining room table, needless to say, by the time I got the needle back to her skin, I don't know that much, if any, medicine made it into her system. So, week 3 we resorted to going back to have the nurse help us.  It wasn't as smooth as the first time, but we got it done and all the medicine was injected.  Then it was time for week #4.  OH MY GOODNESS!!  This one so far has been by far the worst.  It took nearly 45 minutes, headphones with loud music, a pillow over her face (she did it, not us) and it still was a fight, but done.  Whew!! I think its the anticipation that gets her, the shot doesn't hurt that bad, she says.  The next few doses went okay, but it does take a few minutes to get her mind prepped. 

After the 6th dose we went back to the opthamologist and she said Kimmer's eye was quiet!!  QUIET!!!  Her eye hasn't been completely quiet since this whole condition presented its ugly self in January 2012!  Praise God!  She could start tapering off the eye drops and start wearing her contacts again.  Two days later we went back to the Rhuematologist and she said the medicine is doing exactly what they wanted it to do, so we could reduce the dose to once every two weeks!  YAY!  That doesn't mean that its any easier to do every two weeks, but great news just the same.  Thank you Jesus!

With all that news and getting to go skiing in CO for the first time, AND getting her drivers permit, she had a wonderful spring break! 

Now the count down to summer has begun......47 days......