Comments on: Woman’s Day Reply to Rheumatoid Arthritis Comments http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/ Bringing information & encouragement to fight RA Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kelly Young http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-18722 Kelly Young Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:22:04 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-18722 I agree! Go Connie!! :soldier: I agree! Go Connie!! Soldier

]]> By: Connie Asher http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-18721 Connie Asher Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:20:33 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-18721 Dear Warriors, Please don't give up this fight. I just sent WD another letter, and e-mail. The truth of what ""Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease" (love the new name idea) really is------is just begging to be told. Kelly has shown us all how to fight the good fight, so let's keep this campaign going until they respond. Love you all! Dear Warriors,

Please don’t give up this fight. I just sent WD another letter, and e-mail.
The truth of what “”Rheumatoid Autoimmune Disease” (love the new name idea) really is——is just begging to be told.
Kelly has shown us all how to fight the good fight, so let’s keep this campaign going until they respond.
Love you all!

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]]> By: Kelly Young http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-6435 Kelly Young Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:28:51 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-6435 Mary, I argued similar points to both the editor & the author of the article over emails back and forth. They both stood their ground, saying that the Arthritis Foundation supported their article and their viewpoint. I can't forward your reply, but up in the 1st paragraph of this post there is a link to the "comments" there and you can add your 10 cents worth. 8-) Mary, I argued similar points to both the editor & the author of the article over emails back and forth. They both stood their ground, saying that the Arthritis Foundation supported their article and their viewpoint. I can’t forward your reply, but up in the 1st paragraph of this post there is a link to the “comments” there and you can add your 10 cents worth. Cool

]]> By: Mary Higdon http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-6431 Mary Higdon Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:02:26 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-6431 Articles which gloss over the realities of RA do a disservice to the many people suffering with the disease. As annoyances go, it's right up there with the ads to treat "the minor aches and pains of arthritis". It is good to inform many people that their aches and pains could be serious. It would be helpful, especially since RA targets women disproportionately, to have some lengthier articles about the realities of more severe arthritis. Far, far too many people have a mistaken idea that because the word "arthritis" is involved that it isn't something serious. The other thing that has really bugged me is the many many articles about overcoming the disease. Don't get me wrong, some of them are truly inspirational and I do enjoy reading those. But what I don't want is an unrealistic expectation that everyone can have a fantastic outcome, and that if you don't, it's somehow your fault. At some point editors need to recognize that RA is a serious condition, with serious consequences and that many people are suffering nearly as much from the lack of public knowledge about the disease as from the disease itself. Please feel free to forward my comments to Woman's Day! Articles which gloss over the realities of RA do a disservice to the many people suffering with the disease. As annoyances go, it’s right up there with the ads to treat “the minor aches and pains of arthritis”. It is good to inform many people that their aches and pains could be serious. It would be helpful, especially since RA targets women disproportionately, to have some lengthier articles about the realities of more severe arthritis. Far, far too many people have a mistaken idea that because the word “arthritis” is involved that it isn’t something serious.

The other thing that has really bugged me is the many many articles about overcoming the disease. Don’t get me wrong, some of them are truly inspirational and I do enjoy reading those. But what I don’t want is an unrealistic expectation that everyone can have a fantastic outcome, and that if you don’t, it’s somehow your fault.

At some point editors need to recognize that RA is a serious condition, with serious consequences and that many people are suffering nearly as much from the lack of public knowledge about the disease as from the disease itself. Please feel free to forward my comments to Woman’s Day!

]]> By: Ching Ya http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Ching Ya Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:32:26 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-392 Good that you brought up the issue to the RA community. Even though I don't know much about RA, but surely have learned some from your site. Hopefully the notice create awareness so whoever is working on the subject needs to be thorough in their research and writings. Good that you brought up the issue to the RA community. Even though I don’t know much about RA, but surely have learned some from your site. Hopefully the notice create awareness so whoever is working on the subject needs to be thorough in their research and writings.

]]> By: jamie http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-390 jamie Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:24:58 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-390 It is with great sadness that I now realize that everyone at WD has rose colored glasses on. How truly pathetic that they will not research deeper into their own articles, blurbs, tidbits, etc. I know of several million people that may no longer buy, read, or trust this so called magazine. Makes all of us want to and need to work all the harder to get the truth out and take the rose colored glasses off the nation, nay, the world. OK, my rant is finished, for the moment!!!! It is with great sadness that I now realize that everyone at WD has rose colored glasses on. How truly pathetic that they will not research deeper into their own articles, blurbs, tidbits, etc. I know of several million people that may no longer buy, read, or trust this so called magazine. Makes all of us want to and need to work all the harder to get the truth out and take the rose colored glasses off the nation, nay, the world. OK, my rant is finished, for the moment!!!!

]]> By: tharr http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-388 tharr Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:35:58 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-388 WOW! If they have misrepresented RA this badly, can you believe anything else that they publish? WOW! If they have misrepresented RA this badly, can you believe anything else that they publish?

]]> By: Julie Lydell http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Julie Lydell Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:34:36 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-387 It is also amazing Kel that you are able to fit so much information into such a teeny weeny little space. Info that, in my humble opinion, goes above and beyond a "basic primer"! I knew nothing about RA before i started reading your blog and now i feel like i might be able to help another non-RAer understand more clearly the real RA! Thanks Pal for your insight and humor! BTW is the chicken/feather thing sort of like the bug/windshield analogy? LOL! It is also amazing Kel that you are able to fit so much information into such a teeny weeny little space. Info that, in my humble opinion, goes above and beyond a "basic primer"! I knew nothing about RA before i started reading your blog and now i feel like i might be able to help another non-RAer understand more clearly the real RA! Thanks Pal for your insight and humor! BTW is the chicken/feather thing sort of like the bug/windshield analogy? LOL!

]]> By: Rebecca http://rawarrior.com/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Rebecca Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:59:39 +0000 http://rawarrior.com/woman%e2%80%99s-day-reply-to-rheumatoid-arthritis-comments/#comment-386 I think the folks at WD are sounding a little defensive. Seems like you hit a nerve there. Good! Let's keep at it! I think the folks at WD are sounding a little defensive. Seems like you hit a nerve there. Good! Let's keep at it!

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