Posts Tagged ‘Patience & living with RA’
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RA Reality Versus “The Lie”
When everything looks normal but it’s all wrong Countless times I’ve said that I would gladly be wrong about RA. I’d gladly be delusional instead of this sick. I often say “If only I actually were crazy. Then, I could take medication and at least believe I felt better.” Of course it’s a facetious remark, [...]
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My Birthday Cards to Make You Smile
By the time I go to sleep it will be my birthday. It is a strange occasion. Just about five years ago, my whole life changed when occasional RA flares became a full-blown disease. Like many of you: not very many people in my life knew what Rheumatoid Arthritis is. Most of them still don’t. [...]
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Health Blogging: Complications and Blessings
Health blogging as a patient is tough The last month has been hard. Who am I kidding? The last five years have been brutal. The RA is always the same: Just a little worse than yesterday. Like so many of you, I look for ways to make lemonade out of this bitter pain. That’s why [...]
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Dealing with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Housework
My house is dealing with Rheumatoid Arthritis too My house has become a casualty of RA. Dealing with Rheumatoid Arthritis has made it harder every year. The list to-do list gets longer as the list of what I can do gets shorter. I can’t wash dishes – they’re too heavy for my fingers. I can’t [...]
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Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis on Christmas Eve
Everywhere I turn someone asks me, “Are you ready for Christmas?” I don’t even have the energy to laugh. Nothing is “finished” in the way that it once would have been. No, I’m not ready in those ways. On the other hand, I hope I am always ready in another way… Of course none of [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Medicine and Christmas Cookies
Holiday Plan of a hysterical woman: Wednesday: Get Orencia IV. Experience immediate miracle. Thursday: Go Christmas shopping all day. Friday: Decorate the house & put up the Christmas tree. Stay up all night to make lots of homemade gifts. Saturday: Mail the gifts. Write Christmas cards. Make cookie dough. Sunday: Bake cookies & decorate. Deliver [...]
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The Life of a Professional Patient, Blog #4; Continuing to Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis
Obligatory warning: this post is about the author of this blog… The author This is the blog post that I didn’t want to write. For about half of those who read this today, this will be the first time you’ve visited the blog. To you: This is not a typical blog post. This blog is about [...]
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Columbus Day and World Arthritis Day: Is There a Connection?
Happy Columbus Day Five hundred seventeen years ago today, a dream came true. Christopher Columbus successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean, proving that it was possible to sail west from Europe and reach the strange continents of the Western Hemisphere. The discovery of the New World was the fulfillment of his life-long dream. Although it took [...]
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