That one kit you keep putting back in the stash...?

...I'm about to become a medical experiment...in the past 6-8 weeks I've been back and fourth to UCLA and had MRI of my brain and both ends of my spine, left ankle, a treadmill test, an electromylogram (which is like getting tazered one nerve at a time...), and a spinal tap.

Latest development is that I have some inflammatory arthritis in my sacral joints on top of my Crohn's and iritis - which the docs say is near impossible to have all three in one individual, and my blood is going off to the NIH for some genetic workup. I knew my back was bothering me, now I know why...Monday I have to go get a chest x-ray...

...all in preparation for going on Humira...which I'm really scared of - both the needles and the drug...I HATE NEEDLES, JOCK!!! I HATE 'EM!!!

Other than all that, life is suckin'...I would have settled for a red tube scrip...

i had one of those nerve tests. they wear you down by going on and on. if you ever need backup on wheels, just yell. sometimes they keep you overnight if you don't have a driver. i understand about needles and spinal taps, too. needles should never hurt. check all the info and holler about that, too. i was having a great summer until the monsoon and hailstorm. i've only ridden once this summer and it is really pissing me off. i can't even go on a good drunk. so i might as well commiserate with a bud. just yell.

Thanks for the backup. I don't think I've ridden out of town in about two years now...I can make the outbound trip, but I don't trust myself to have enough stamina to get home. I haven't even been riding to work as much as I used to.

I stayed overnight after the spinal tap...later that night it felt like I had been burned in the back with a cigarette. That lasted about a day and a half, and then the headaches kicked in...like a low-grade migraine, and it felt like my upper teeth were wrapped in aluminum foil...that lasted about four days. Better now, but really, really tired.

Hasn't helped that I'm also still spending more time tearing down and rebuilding 1:1s than I am building models...if I can get through this next week I may be able to get caught up and recharge. Of course, I'm supposed to start sticking myself on Friday...ouch. A guy I know here that has RA and is on Humira tells me the shots burn...especially if you shoot them anywhere but your belly.

Think I'm gonna draft up a hot chocolate and Kahlua and stay in tonight...I've been doing that of late - staying in - and all the street-creatures are starting to ask and worry about me...I'm ok for the most part...just really, really run down. Been that way all year...I'm supposed to have good days and bad with Crohn's - this has been a bad year...

All of 'em... :(

Cheers,

Moramarth

Probably my '65 Riviera. It's in the 'Hijack' series and I've had it new since the mid-'70s. I want to do a fabulous job on it and I'm nowhere near fabulous yet. IMHO, that car is a modern classic.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr,

A friend of mine had one 1:1. It was a show car that was supposed to be crushed at the end of the season, but was rescued by a GM biggachot, who lost it in a divorce to an aquaintance. He got transferred to New York City and sold the car to my friend, who drove it for a couple of years and traded it for a 28' cabin cruiser. It had every option available at that time on it (more things to go wrong) and a candy red over gold paint job that was gorgeous.

Was it Mitchell, the designer? I know he had one that was a show car.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Sorry Bill, I really don't know. Whichever exec had it, sold it to Clarence Nizley, who sold it to my friend, Billy Grohmann. I have a couple of shapshots that I could scan and send you if you'd recognize the car.

I'd compare it to the pics in an article in 'Collectible Automobile'. I have every one so far but IIRC, the Riviera article was in an '85 issue.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.