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Welcome to Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior

Thanks for stopping by! There’s lots new here – and more is added daily. RA Warrior is no dry medical science site, yet it’s crammed with important info to fight RA, served up in a light-hearted way. I hope that this page will help you find your way around the site and make yourself at home.

The Goals of this site have always been clear:

Help patients find information and encouragement so they can live the best life possible.
Increase awareness about Rheumatoid Arthritis and correct common misconceptions.
Present the patient story in a way that may increase understanding of the disease by doctors and researchers.

Consider this the sign over my desk:

Here are some great ways to find what you are looking for:

Search box at top of the page.
All posts are carefully tagged – so scroll through the Tags list for your topic.
Further down, the Archives list every post on the blog. Just click on the black arrows to see all the titles.

Other handy links:

I need to contact Kelly

Frequently Asked Questions.
Recently diagnosed with RA.
Searching for diagnosis.
Basic facts about Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Stories of how RA begins.
I do not have RA. What would you like me to know?
Send me RA Warrior by email or an RSS feed.
About the Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior Website
About the author
About the name: Warrior
I need an RA t-Shirt.
Can I donate to RA Warrior?

About Kelly
We’ll add a press page soon. There have been a lot of interviews and guest posts we’d like to show you. Here’s a preview:

Kelly Young is an advocate providing ways for patients to be better informed and have a greater voice in their healthcare. She received the 2011 WebMD Health Hero award. Through her writing, speaking, and use of social media, she is building a more refined and accurate awareness of Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease (RAD) aka Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) geared toward the public and medical community; creating ways to empower RA patients to advocate for improved diagnosis and treatment; and bringing recognition and visibility to the RA patient journey. In 2009, Kelly created Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior, a comprehensive website about RA of about 600 pages and writes periodically for other newsletters and websites. Kelly serves on the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media Advisory Board. There are over 12,000 connections of her highly interactive Facebook Fan page. She created and moderates the weekly Twitter-chat on rheumatology topics, which can be followed with the hashtag: #rheum. Kelly is the mother of five, a home-schooler, Bible teacher, NASA enthusiast, and NFL fan. You can also connect with Kelly by on Twitter or YouTube, or LinkedIn. She has lived almost six years with unrelenting Rheumatoid disease.

Press

Kelly received the 2011 Health Hero of the Year Award from WebMD!

See Kelly in HealthMonitor Arthritis magazine showing up in rheumatologist offices all around!

Read about Kelly’s membership on the Mayo Clinic Social Media Advisory Board here.

Kelly won the Year’s Best Health on Twitter in the Shorty Awards for 2010.