Comments on: Rheumatoid Arthritis Bungee Jumping http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2011/06/rheumatoid-arthritis-bungee-jumping/ Adventures of a superhero on his journey through chronic pain and debilitating inflammation Sun, 30 Jun 2013 03:49:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wren http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2011/06/rheumatoid-arthritis-bungee-jumping/#comment-3706 Wren Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:47 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=12348#comment-3706 Being able to accept that a flare will just be what it is, is a giant step forward in learning to cope with RA. You’ve really reached an important milestone, Guy. Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts about it with us; your words will go a long way toward helping others learn to cope, too.

]]> By: Jan http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2011/06/rheumatoid-arthritis-bungee-jumping/#comment-3702 Jan Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:33:46 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=12348#comment-3702 What good news! I really appreciate you sharing what you are learning through flares and trials. Having no expectations is the answer to so many problems in life–guess I always want the CONTROL of timing it or figuring out how it will end. Give up control??? Here is a wonderful poem that describes this way of living:

Take the whole kit
with the caboodle
Experience life
don’t deplore it
Shake hands with time
don’t kill it
Open a lookout
Dance on a brink
Run with your wildfire
You are closer to glory
leaping an abyss
than upholstering a rut

by James Broughton

]]> By: Deb aka murphthesurf http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2011/06/rheumatoid-arthritis-bungee-jumping/#comment-3700 Deb aka murphthesurf Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:51:09 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=12348#comment-3700 Love the graphic…it says it all. I am glad you got out of the free fall of a flare and are back on the platform again. Having no expectations at all really does help in this fight. This way one doesn’t have to get disappointed in the process. I also did this with all my ra meds. Quick…unbuckle yourself and run..run…before the next one! Ok…maybe not run..but flee anyway :-)

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