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Video Blog: Two Essentials with a Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis

October 31, 2011May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 24 Comments Encouragement for living with RA, Tips for living with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Video or podcast

What do you say to someone diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis? If I could meet to every person diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, I’d encourage them to Expect the best from treatments; Read all of their medical records; Keep up on research. I’d also wish for them that they find doctors who listen well! What else is indispensible with a Rheumatoid Arthritis diagnosis? Watch...Continue reading 24 Comments » Read more

Is That Your Final Answer? …or Replying to Misconceptions

October 28, 2011May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 98 Comments Communicating about RA, Humor with RA, Talking to doctors

A day filled with misconceptions about Rheumatoid Arthritis / Disease I wrote this post weeks ago when it had just happened. I imagined responses that to misconceptions about rheumatoid arthritis are usually held back in polite conversation. Am I the only one who does that? What if it were a game show… It was a day filled...Continue reading 98 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Exercise, Round 5

October 25, 2011May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 53 Comments Cost of activity - usage principle, Exercise with RA, Frying Pan Posts, Unrelenting RA - Persistent disease

This is the third post in the Frying Pan series to honor of the blog’s 3rd year, considering some significant issues from the last couple years. Sometimes the ...Continue reading 53 Comments » Read more

Behind the Scenes Video: Patient at a Social Media Conference

October 24, 2011April 20, 2019 Kelly O'Neill 4 Comments Doing Projects with RA, Pain Tolerance / RA Stoicism, Patient advocacy, Video or podcast

Telling it like it is. On camera. It’s uncomfortable. It's very hard to talk about harsh pain. Why does pain seem so embarrassing? I even gave birth in quiet agony a few times because of that. 3 aspects of RA that are difficult to discuss It’s hard to talk about pain, so most of us are pretty private...Continue reading 4 Comments » Read more

Dear Healthcare Facility: We Love This But We Hate That

October 21, 2011May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 26 Comments Humor with RA, Talking to doctors

None of us love a needle stick, but some technicians do it so well, you can hardly feel it. Last week, a woman took several vials of blood without even asking me to squeeze a damn rubber ball. It was the first time a nurse remembered I have RA and adjusted her procedure! Thank you!...Continue reading 26 Comments » Read more

A Paradigm Shift in Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity? Part 3

October 17, 2011May 15, 2018 Kelly O'Neill 59 Comments Blood test for RA/ Rheumatoid Disease, Measuring rheumatoid disease activity, Patient reported outcome measure, Research on Rheumatoid Arthritis

In Part 1, we pointed out that patients and clinicians look at Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity in different ways. Rheumatologists especially focus on joints, and actually particular kinds of joint activity. Patients face much more with regard to disease activity, as reflected in the post and comments page. In Part 2, we looked at two specific...Continue reading 59 Comments » Read more