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We went to the doctor today for a follow-up. (Yes, doctors need doctors too.) His name is Dr. Jaffy, and this was only our second visit to him. I was supposed to see him five months ago, but I stubbornly put it off until things got worse. (Doctors also make the worst patients.) "Worse" is what my hands look like today. As soon as I sat down in the clinic chair, Doc Jaffy took my knobby, red hands and gently tapped on the joints as he counted. "Looks like all your PIPs are inflamed."  Proximal Inter-Phalangeal joint. PIP. Such a cute word but whenever my doctors bring it up, the context is never cute. "Where else?" he asked. I said, my knuckles, elbows, knees, and toes, and then felt kinda stupid for reciting them to him in this order like a kid. He put his finger to his masked chin and thought for a while. " Mag- biologics na nga tayo ," he said. Biologics are a class of drugs meant to suppress my immune system and keep it from attacking my own ...

Lookie, I'm blogging from Android! So cool. Finally, I can blog while lying down (isn't that The Dream?). However, because I'm not using a keyboard, it isn't as easy as blogging on a laptop. I also make a lot more typos on a keypad. But I get the extra benefit of being able to write on the go. And I can just directly upload pics from my tablet instead of first bluetoothing them to my laptop. So I guess I'll be using this technology for making short, quick posts like this one. Technology is wonderful. Anyway. Today Rap took me to HealthDev, a lab/clinic in Ateneo, so that I could get to work on those lab tests I need for my treatment (for my rheumatoid arthritis). Since the clinic is just on campus, we dropped Caitlin off at school along the way. Sadly, HealthDev didn't do serum Vitamin D assays, a blood test that I needed to have, so we had to go elsewhere. We drove to LabWorks upon his mom's suggestion and then I got the tests I needed done in less th...