Going On An Adventure

My husband asked me as we arrived at Hobbiton in New Zealand. "Where are you going" and I called out "On an adventure!!" I've always loved a good mystery. Now I had a real life mystery to solve. The name of this adventure is "What autoimmune disease is it?

Gandalf: I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.
Bilbo: I should think so—in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures….
Gandalf: You’ll have a tale or two to tell when you come back.
Bilbo: You can promise that I’ll come back?
Gandalf: No. And if you do, you will not be the same.
“It’s the job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.”
-:- J.R.R. Tolkien -:-

Now to find out what was causing problems with my eyes. My eyes were my priority. The ophthalmologist said if I didn't find the underlying autoimmune disease that had attacked my eyes, it would happen again. My general practitioner is a very capable, thorough, thoughtful doctor. She ran extensive blood tests on me and couldn’t find the cause of several infections and inflammation that I had or what would cause the uveitis. She tried repeatedly to get me into a rheumatologist but to no avail. They wouldn’t take me with only the problem that had affected my eyes. So it was up to my awesome GP, my husband and myself to find out what was brewing inside of me. The prize is to save my eyesight. What do I check out first. See
Three Ring Circus-Symptoms.

“Any task in life is easier if we approach it with the one at a time attitude. ... To cite a whimsical saying; 'If you chase two rabbits, both of them will escape.' No one is adequate to do everything all at once. We have to select what is important, what is possible, and begin where we are, with what we have." 

-:- Richard L. Evans -:-