Pleased to meet you, Doug! Glad to hear that your PsA diagnosis has at least been able to give you some answers about the heart attacks. You’ve now come to a great place to start sharing your experiences with others - so feel free to get involved in our discussions and contact me if you have any questions! By the way, thats a cool hobby you’ve got there - do you mean like pickup trucks or the larger kind?
Yes, pick up trucks.
My ability to pursue my hobby is very limited now and my attention is on more cerebral activities. Searching out and finding this site is a part of it.
I’m hoping to share my experience and the results of a study I volunteered for at the National Institute of Health (NIH). The study is focused on the correlation of PsA and heart disease. I’m waiting for the results of the initial testing and will post a new subject when they come in.
Keeping the focus on progress in the fight against the disease.
That’s a great looking car! Welcome!
Wow Doug - that looks awesome! Haha, I know all my friends would be jealous if I found a way to get my hands on one of those.
I’m glad to hear that you are finding other ways to make use of your time. It’s especially great that you want to share the results of this clinical study you participated in - its people taking the initiative to do stuff like that which really helps this community become a useful source of information for many!
OMG … what year is that? Fifty-??? It almost looks like an Edsel. (Now I’m showing my advanced age!)
Our very own @tntlamb has a thing for old trucks too. 
That is a 1960 Chevy Apache Custom, a 3/4 ton side step pick up truck. Took 9 years to do a frame off restoration. I have to sell it now because, with the PsA I can no longer use the clutch and shifter. It also doesn’t have power steering.
Thanks for the interest.
Yeah, it’s a heartbreak when you have to give up something that you love so much because of this damned disease. There are more than a few of us in that postion. I studied for years to qualify for a retirement career as a sommelier, but by the time I retired, I was too ill to work in my “dream job”. It came down to my liver: I figured it could handle methotrexate, or it could handle wine, but not both. As much as I miss my craft, I’m pleased that my disease is now under good control, and that I can be reasonably active and relatively pain-free. Life’s pretty good, despite it all.
There’s nothing easy about this disease. Nothing. Except maybe joining us here: we love this place, and the people we get to know!
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Welcome Doug!