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Should Chronic Pain Patients Be Treated in the ER?

Kelly O'Neill 31 Comments , , ,
What happens when a chronic pain patient goes to the ER? In the video below, A Chronic Pain Patient in the ER, a chronic pain patient is presented as either untruthful or mentally unstable. I’m not even sure which. However, the point of the video and many of the comments is that chronic pain patients are...Continue reading      31 Comments » Read more

How Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain Affects Women’s Lives

Kelly O'Neill 73 Comments , ,
There were some wonderful surprises at the American College of Rheumatology Scientific Session last month aka the ACR meeting. One of them was a poster presented by Dr. Vibeke Strand of Stanford. It’s not the topic that is wonderful, but the fact that rheumatologists are studying it. The study was called “The Impact of Rheumatoid...Continue reading      73 Comments » Read more

What’s Your Advice for Shoes for Rheumatoid Arthritis Feet?

Kelly O'Neill 196 Comments , ,
Shoes for feet that are old overnight thanks to Rheumatoid Arthritis? For years, my feet were a big part of my Palindromic Rheumatism or (palindromic Rheumatoid Arthritis). I’d wake up some mornings and it would feel like I’d walked on those feet all day. It was always like I was finishing a marathon that had never...Continue reading      196 Comments » Read more

New Greece Shoe Policy for Diabetics Favors Amputation

Kelly O'Neill 25 Comments
When she picked me up from the airport recently, Katie Beth shared a shocking story she’d just heard on the news about diabetes patients in Greece receiving foot amputations instead of special shoes. Here’s how the diabetes shoe-story was reported in Keep Talking Greece: “If this isn’t an incredible story, I don’t know what it is!...Continue reading      25 Comments » Read more

Traveling to a WEGO Health Panel for Health Activists

Kelly O'Neill 26 Comments , ,
A month of firsts It has been a month of firsts for me. There were fun things like our first Rheumatoid Arthritis Meme and my first prescription reading glasses - how great it is to see again! There were less fun hard things like medial branch nerve blocks in my back and neck and my first...Continue reading      26 Comments » Read more

Having a Cuppa Together: a Rheumatoid Arthritis Meme

Kelly O'Neill 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

Is It Time for Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness?

Kelly O'Neill 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
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