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Twitter & a #rheum for the Rheumatoid Online Community

Kelly Young 10 Comments , ,
You are the best part! The best thing about this blog is the readers. I know – I if I didn’t write a blog, then there wouldn’t be one. But the readers help make this blog a community, especially through the comments pages. We also have a thriving RA Warrior Facebook community where people are making...Continue reading      10 Comments » Read more

What Does World Arthritis Day Have to Do with RA?

Kelly Young 58 Comments ,
Over the past week, there have been a few Tweets on Twitter about World Arthritis Day. The Arthritis Foundation posted them asking RA’ers to “join in.” It raised this question: Is World Arthritis Day about RA?  “ACR is participating in World Arthritis Day” Last week, I was on the website for the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)...Continue reading      58 Comments » Read more

Having a Cuppa Together: a Rheumatoid Arthritis Meme

Kelly Young 232 Comments ,
What’s this Rheumatoid Arthritis meme about? This is the first meme on Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior. It’s just a set of questions that we each answer. If you’re wondering more about what a meme is, here is a good explanation I found on a site called The Daily Meme. This RA meme is about the things we might...Continue reading      232 Comments » Read more

What Can We Do About the Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Problem?

Kelly Young 63 Comments ,
Why do I believe we need Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness? When I got full blown Rheumatoid Arthritis, I had no idea I’d gotten stuck with an unpopular disease. It was a surprise when one person after another brushed aside my explanation with things like, “You are too young to have that” or “Oh yeah, I have that...Continue reading      63 Comments » Read more

Is It Time for Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness?

Kelly Young 71 Comments ,
There have been some diseases that have been highly successful in achieving public awareness. RA is years behind them. Take diabetes and breast cancer for example... It seems like Rheumatoid Arthritis awareness is overdue One of the first blogs I read was a post by Sara called The Loser Disease – still one of my favorite blog...Continue reading      71 Comments » Read more

Would RA Awareness Make a Difference? The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Kelly Young 52 Comments , ,
My polite warning: this post is about the author. The good I went for my third Actemra IV today. Easy peasy. The head nurse does a great job. No pain. No blood. The first Actemra IV, she told me stories of patients who were helped by Actemra during their first 5 days! It gave me a hope. The...Continue reading      52 Comments » Read more

Tony Snow: Illness Doesn’t Change the Person You Are

Kelly Young 22 Comments ,
Over the last few years, some people have faded out of my life after RA made it impossible to do most things I used to do. Some people didn’t want to hear about illness, or pain or medicine. They didn’t understand what I meant when I said “can’t.” I never ask for sympathy for being...Continue reading      22 Comments » Read more

Patient Assertiveness

Kelly Young 49 Comments , ,
Not enough patient assertiveness? If you saw the blog with the pretty Actemra brochures and the not-so-pretty bruises, you know I needed some patient assertiveness recently. My skin rarely bruises, but the coloring was not the worst thing. That elbow was stiffened and screaming for two weeks with a flare caused by the rough treatment of...Continue reading      49 Comments » Read more

Response to a Blog Written by a Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctor

Kelly Young 6 Comments , ,
Please read the first part of this blog: Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctors. That post discusses a story written by a young doctor who describes part of his training. If you read that post and others on the site, you know this is not an attack on good Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors. Those are the ones, like Doctor...Continue reading      6 Comments » Read more

Rheumatoid Arthritis Doctors

Kelly Young 17 Comments ,
What’s wrong with Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors? Yes, I do know there are a lot of great doctors. There’s “my good GP” as I always say. We have a fantastic nurse practitioner pediatrician. And a few others we know.  You better believe I was thrilled to find my good Rheumatoid Arthritis doctor finally. Are Rheumatoid Arthritis doctors different?...Continue reading      17 Comments » Read more
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Rheumatoid Arthritis T-Shirt Contest Winner!

Kelly Young 9 Comments
NOTE: NEW RA Warrior Wear rheumatoid arthritis t-shirt & gear store - Click here!  - THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED - Happy ending to the Rheumatoid Arthritis T-shirt contest! Two weeks ago, we began a contest to win a Rheumatoid Arthritis T-shirt from RA Warrior’s store. The contest ended yesterday, July 5that midnight.  The drawing entries were all placed...Continue reading      9 Comments » Read more

Living with a Spouse with Chronic Illness, part 2

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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 was...Continue reading      21 Comments » Read more
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