There are a number of girls your age I hear from here on the blog sometimes. If you see a comment from one of them, go ahead & reply. If they don’t see it, I could email them to see if they want to get in touch. Let me know if you want me to try that.

Pam has moved her blog. I’ll fix the link! She is also very active on Twitter so if you’d like to try Twitter, you could follow her & me there & we could help you find friends. Click here for Pam’s blog link. Click here for Pam’s Twitter link. Click here for my Twitter link.

We have several young people who comment on the blog, so I don’t know if I’ve ever spoken with your daughter. Please give her a hug for me. The only thing I can imagine harder than living with RA would be to be a young person living with RA.

Thanks for being the wonderful kind of mom who would read a page like this. So many with RA have families who don’t understand at all or ever read something like this story so they will. She’s lucky to have you. God bless you both. :heart:

I think one of the oddest things about it is that so many people with RA do seem to be either younger or older; being in the teens or early twenties seems to be a bit of a no mans land. I don’t know if that is just my perception based on sitting in my doctor’s waiting room for too long but…for what its worth.

Jordan was diagnosed almost 5 years at the age of 3. Part of me thinks that the younger you are when you are diagnosed the better. You don’t know/remember what life was like before. All these meds, appts, tests and so on are routine for J. Me being 35 and just diagnosed has sent me a spin. I’m having a hard time adapting to everything and I find myself having to look to my 7 year old for support.

Noelle