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The Confusion of a Smile

April 25, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 44 Comments Professional patient, Rheum Disease in the Media, Rheumatoid Arthritis awareness

If you have RA, you’ll probably just nod your head as I share this private experience. If not, you may just scratch you head: huh? It’s all good, right? Well, mostly… I mean, a lot of living with RA is actually hard or disagreeable, but we smile anyway. What are you gonna do, right? I smile a...Continue reading 44 Comments » Read more

Secondary Sjogren’s Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis: a Primary Problem

April 23, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 33 Comments Comprehensive RA Care, Sjogren's syndrome

Sjogren’s syndrome: have you seen the eye doc yet? When I wrote my first RA Warrior post on Sjogren’s syndrome in 2009, I wasn’t sure whether I’d ever be diagnosed with it. But I thought it was important to cover on the blog. I had a fun idea for illustrating the pronunciation of the name so...Continue reading 33 Comments » Read more

It All Comes Out in the Wash: Comparing Different Treatments & Approaches

April 20, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 18 Comments Research on Rheumatoid Arthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis treatment

Four weeks. Not a record for me, but close... When this is published in the morning, I’ll be spending the morning washing and blowing out my hair for the 1st time in about a month. The ends started to take dreadlock form the last few days, somewhat an improvement. But the front looks really bad [deliberately...Continue reading 18 Comments » Read more

5 Reasons Rheumatoid Disease Is a Better Term than Rheumatoid Arthritis

April 18, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 19 Comments Comprehensive RA Care, Rheumatoid Arthritis awareness, Rheumatoid Disease (RD) better name for RA

The first blog post of this year told how I’ve come to prefer the term Rheumatoid Disease to Rheumatoid Arthritis. The response? Within 2 days in Facebook-land, there were 294 Shares, 583 Likes, and 128 comments. There are now 1,000 Likes, 500 re-Tweets, and 80 blog comments. That’s people voting with their mouse: Yes. But as...Continue reading 19 Comments » Read more

A Tribute: Oyster Suppers, Patient Advocacy, and Ice Cream

April 13, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 14 Comments Inspiration for living with RA

We lost someone very special yesterday, the last grandparent in our family. Her name was Mary and I want to tell you that she lived a long, healthy life to the age of 96. But decades ago, she’d become a patient advocate. I don’t even know whether that was a word back then. Nevertheless, after...Continue reading 14 Comments » Read more

It’s Just Pain, Right? No, Dr. No, It’s Not

April 11, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 26 Comments Pain Tolerance / RA Stoicism, Rheumatoid arthritis pain, Unrelenting RA - Persistent disease

No, it’s not just pain A letter from a fellow warrior reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to blog about since last summer. Today was technically my last day in the clinical trial. They were supposed to call me to check once more for adverse events because it’s day 210. Everything happens on a certain...Continue reading 26 Comments » Read more

Dear Warriors and Friends

April 9, 2012May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 10 Comments Comprehensive RA Care, Humor with RA, Patient advocacy

The past three years are positively beyond anything I could have imagined. Do you have a moment? When I started blogging, I had dreams of this website. But it could take forever to learn enough about “code” to manage it… We’ll save the rest for another day, but do you realize rawarrior.com has at least 630 pages?...Continue reading 10 Comments » Read more