Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration for living with RA’

• Tony Snow: Illness Doesn’t Change the Person You Are

  Monday, September 6th, 2010

  Over the last few years, some people have faded out of my life after RA made it impossible to do most things I used to do. Some people didn’t want to hear about illness, or pain or medicine. They didn’t understand what I meant when I said “can’t.” I never ask for sympathy for being [...]

• Perseverance in Fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Monday, August 9th, 2010

  What keeps you fighting? I tried to quit… At one point, I thought I would be fired as a professional patient. No such luck. I’ve also tried to quit Rheumatoid Arthritis. Maybe you remember my Eject Button. I tried to quit another chronic illness once. Maybe you read my ostrich jokes. I haven’t had a [...]

• A Rheumatoid Arthritis Newsletter from RA Warrior

  Friday, July 30th, 2010

  My Rheumatoid Arthritis newsletter is out! I hope you got your copy of my newsletter that went out last night. If you didn’t, you can sign up on the Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior Newsletter page and you’ll be sent one. I always thought armadillos were cute. People from Texas would tell us stories about the silly [...]

• Renoir’s Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

  What do we know about Renoir’s Rheumatoid Arthritis? One of the most famous people with Rheumatoid Arthritis is Pierre August Renoir. His name is on all the lists. I read about him early on in my searches. However, most stories give precious few details about Renoir’s RA, how it affected him, and how he coped [...]

• Living with a Spouse with Chronic Illness, part 2

  Friday, July 2nd, 2010

  Understanding a spouse with Rheumatoid Arthritis This is the second part of a story about a spouse with Rheumatoid Arthritis. In Living with a Spouse with Chronic Illness, part 1, Michael described the surprising process of learning to recognize the amount of chronic pain that Rheumatoid Arthritis brought his wife Deborah. He explained that it [...]

• Hope for Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Friday, June 18th, 2010

  Our regularly scheduled program will be interrupted for a message from our sponsor.* Ghost stories and hopelessness There is an old North American tale of friends sitting by the campfire. Telling ghost stories at twilight made them jumpy. They became anxious as a faint humming sound grew closer and louder. Screams of horror about bites [...]

• Faith Quotes and Serving God with Our Daily Work

  Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

  Next week, on May 17th, the blog will be one year old. The blog has taken the largest part of my time for the last year; so this week I’m thinking about why I write it and where to go from here.      A glimpse at how I see the high calling of our daily [...]

• Looking at a Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Up with a Smile

  Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

  See what a Rheumatoid Arthritis flare up plus a little creativity can produce There was a treat in my email box last night.  Young freelance writer Brooke Windsor wrote up this clever verse about her Rheumatoid Arthritis flare. It gives cool meaning to “grin and bear it.” Brooke’s writing touched me and made smile and [...]