February 27th, 2012 by Kelly Young

This is one of those rare posts about my personal medical journey, a Professional patient post. That’s kind of a warning in case I use the word “I” too many times to be polite. It’s crunch time. No one can decide but me. About a year ago I hit the end of the line with [...]
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February 26th, 2012 by Kelly Young

The NBA All-Star games came to the Amway center in Orlando yesterday. And the Daytona 500 events have been going on all week in Central Florida. Plus antique car shows and other things. Saturday morning I was listening to the radio blowing out my hair (a big deal for me even with meds). I heard [...]
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February 24th, 2012 by Kelly Young

I got a letter today about one of the most important issues we could discuss. I’m introducing a new tag: Comprehensive RA Care. It is vital to our living healthier and longer lives and more than one blog post can cover. Putting it as simply as possible, it is now known that Rheumatoid Arthritis is a systemic, [...]
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February 22nd, 2012 by Kelly Young

The following article was written by David Biundo to his friends and fellow patients. The message came from a conversation he had with his doctor. I hope you’ll find it inspiring and enlightening as I do. The challenge of being believed One of the challenges that many patients with chronic illness face, is the treatment [...]
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February 19th, 2012 by Kelly Young

Please don’t miss the news at the end of the post! I had to put A LOT on one page since it’s been a few days! My endocrinologist was so excited about my attending the ACR in November and winning the WebMD award in December and it’s really fun to share after being a patient [...]
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February 14th, 2012 by Kelly Young

Just how big of a deal is this disease? I suppose the fact that I’ve written several hundred pages about it is a clue to my opinion. Yet, most of those articles were written with intentional restraint, avoiding hyperbole, at times even understating my own symptoms in an attempt to be more judicious. Many view [...]
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February 9th, 2012 by Kelly Young

Like most people, I was always proud of what I could juggle and how many balls I could keep in the air at once, while making it look easy. Most of us also know that living with Rheumatoid disease changes that. One by one, I’ve had to put down things I’d rather have continued. I [...]
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February 4th, 2012 by Kelly Young

I’ve made up another term because I haven’t heard of anything suitable: “immune fingerprint.” It occurred to me that while we talk about how the disease Rheumatoid Arthritis (or Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease) affects us, one key to understanding disease activity may be considering how we affect the disease. If a disease disrupts the immune system, causing [...]
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