Posts Tagged ‘Death and Rheumatoid Arthritis’
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What’s the Big Deal about Rheumatoid Disease?
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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Recognizing the Anguish of Depression in Time for Help
Negative spaces are only part of the picture I was stirring early in the morning when everything was still gray. Something I saw looked like a fish for a moment. There’s no pet fish here, especially in my room. “Negative spaces,” I heard myself whisper. That’s what is in between the shapes of what is [...]
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Author Seeks to Find Justice by Helping Others
I’m so lucky to live about an hour from Disneyworld. No, I don’t go park hopping! But, we can go meet people who come to Orlando for business or pleasure. Recently, Katie Beth and I drove over to meet with Carla Jones, author of Death by Rheumatoid Arthritis. We had dinner and talked about Carla’s [...]
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Death by Rheumatoid Arthritis: Possible and Preventable
Daughter turns tragic Rheumatoid Arthritis death into mission of hope Carla’s book caught my attention several months ago and we quickly became online friends. Carla has done a remarkable thing by using a personal tragedy to benefit others. I hope you enjoy this review of her book and purchase a copy of Death by Rheumatoid [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis News Articles, Volume 2
3 hot Rheumatoid Arthritis news articles 1) Woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis dies after seafood The Galveston Daily News reported last week a Port Bolivar, Texas woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis died of an infection of flesh-eating bacteria. The bacteria, which are common in warm salt water worldwide, can cause necrotizing fasciitis. Ginger Ling, 57, had cleaned [...]
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Problems with Preventive Care and Rheumatoid Arthritis Mortality
If you read yesterday’s blog, “The Mortality Dragon: Do Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have to Die Early?” then you know I was glad to find a researcher discussing preventive care for Rheumatoid Arthritis patients, especially in the context of cardiovascular disease. If you read the article “Why do people with rheumatoid arthritis still die prematurely?” you [...]
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The Mortality Dragon: Do Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Have to Die Early?
Reasons for the high mortality rate with Rheumatoid Arthritis This is not a morbid post. If we’re going to fight a dragon, we need to know about the dragon. Why do Rheumatoid Arthritis patients have such a high mortality rate? Some of you have probably heard me speculate about mortality and RA in response to [...]
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Prognosis for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Disability of RA Rheumatoid Arthritis can lead to sudden disability. It is unknown what causes sudden weakness of tissues which surround the joints, such as tendons, ligaments, and the muscles themselves. With medication, these disabilities can often be controlled. However, permanent damage to joint tissues can cause gradually more drastic and permanent disability. Deformity of [...]
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