Feeling a little bit better...The flare package idea has really helped. I have also given up the expectation that I should be in remission right now because winter is over. I gave myself a gift for completing physical therapy: I joined a fancy athletic club... mostly for the social contact and the delicious warm sauna room to ease my aches. I did a 7 minute workout on the seated step-machine! It's the first exercise I've done near "normal" people since I graduated from physical therapy. The fact that I could only do 7 minutes was a bit embarrassing, but I was proud of myself for being able to work out in a regular gym instead of the old torture palace...

Longing for warm sunny summer days though.