Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration for living with RA’
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A Rheumatoid Arthritis Newsletter from RA Warrior
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 [...]
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Renoir’s Rheumatoid Arthritis
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 [...]
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Living with a Spouse with Chronic Illness, part 2
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 [...]
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Hope for Rheumatoid Arthritis
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 [...]
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Faith Quotes and Serving God with Our Daily Work
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 [...]
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Looking at a Rheumatoid Arthritis Flare Up with a Smile
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 me smile and [...]
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Self Image and Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Does living with Rheumatoid Arthritis affect our superpowers? We’ve talked before about the ways living with Rheumatoid Arthritis affects the way we view ourselves – remember the RA Self Definition Fairy? And maybe you read the blog about remembering the old me in the scrapbook before Rheumatoid Arthritis. Someone did yesterday – and her response [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving from Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior
Being thankful, even with Rheumatoid Arthritis God is good even when we cannot see why things happen. He will bring us through the trial, more refined and more reliant upon Him. Knowing that helps me to hold on through the rough spots. I thank Him that I am not alone in this journey. I [...]
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