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Which Superhero Are You?
Top Row: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy, Spondyloarthropathy Gal, Family/Friend Guy, Juvenile Arthritis Gal, Caregiver Guy, Healthcare Gal.Middle Row: Caregiver Gal, Healthcare Guy, Autoimmune Gal, Lyme Disease Guy, Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal, Lupus Guy.
Bottom Row: Juvenile Arthritis Guy, Lupus Gal, Spondyloarthropathy Guy, Family/Friend Gal, Autoimmune Guy, Lyme Disease Gal.
Name: RA Guy
Age: 36
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: Almost five years.
Superhero Powers: Living with RA, writing this blog, design, photography, cooking, organizing this league of superheroes.
Superhero Headquarters: San Francisco & South America
Name: Sara, aka Single Gal with RA
Age: 30
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 2 years
Superhero Powers: Living with RA all by myself, writing a blog/column, being a comic strip character, traveling the world, baking, supporting the work of contemporary artists in a capitalist world
Superhero Headquarters: New York City/Baltimore
Name: Jules (alias CharmedOne)
Age: 42
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Mom
Superhero Experience: 4 years and counting
Superhero Powers: Living with RA-but not suffering from it, writing a blog, spreading the word about good blogs, Super Wife, Super Mom, Super Daughter, crafting and staying positive
Superhero Headquarters: Kentuckiana
Name: Cathy
Age: 41
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Five and a half years
Superhero Powers: Fighting the evil forces of RA medication free, blogging about the ups and downs of RA and alternative medicine among many other things, informing the world of the wonders of homeschooling two children, a wife (pretty amazing one too if you ask me), a woman learning to appreciate who she is, and much much more. More of my powers are realized each and every day.
Superhero Headquarters: Chicago Suburbs
Name: MissDazey
Age: 67, and counting
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal aka Dizzy, Your RA Super Humor Hero
Superhero Experience: 40 years
Superhero Powers: Making my life count for something more than RA,OA and being old. Encourager, cheerleader, shoulder to lean on for young people with arthritis and RA. Listener for the older crowd who have arthritis and RA. We are survivors of many thing including ails and pains.
Superhero Headquarters: Missouri Ozarks.
Name: ms. mur
Age: 49
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis DIVA! LOL...
Superhero Experience: 2 years
Superhero Powers:DRAMA MAMA, 'multi media artist' (ok, I have ADD...I do a little of this, a little of that...),putting a smile on peoples faces,writing, baking cookies and spreading the word about my arch nemisis...the disease of Rheumatoid Arthritis!
Superhero Headquarters: Apopka, FL
Name: Helen
Age: 25
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 23 years!
Superhero Powers: Living a full, active, happy life with RA, scoliosis and cardiomyopathy, and approaching my health issues with a positive outlook
Superhero Headquarters: Ontario, Canada
Name: Martin
Age: 42
Superhero Type: Caregiver Guy
Superhero Experience: 5 years.
Superhero Powers: Cheerleader, good listener, patient, lots of hugs to give, enjoying one day at a time.
Superhero Headquarters: California
Name: Laurie
Age: 52
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 6 years
Superhero Powers: Cheerleader,dispenser of ((((HUGS)))) Mom to 2 grown boys and 3 felines. Blogger wannabe. Nurse by profession, medical researcher by necessity. Knowledge is POWER! Traveller on the RA journey, meeting new superheroes every day.
Superhero Headquarters: Orlando,FL
Name: KS Grammie
Age: 58
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 7 years
Superhero Powers: Husband of 40 years, Wonderful kids and grandkids! CABG X6 survivor!
Superhero Headquarters: KS
Name: Vicki C
Age: 41
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 14 years
Superhero Powers: Single mom of three superkids who manages to juggle soccer hockey baseball and golf schedules around flares, infusions and therapy, Restoring order in the kingdom is the primary objective of my "job" -- disabled stay at home mom/taxi driver...hehe.
Superhero Headquarters: Northfield, Vermont
Name: Holly
Age: 30
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 9 years
Superhero Powers: 2 kiddies under 3 (who understand that sometimes Mumma can't wrestle!), open to trying every unconventional RA treatment under the sun, supporting my 60 year old mum who has a brand new RA diagnosis and trying to get my pre RA fitness back!
Superhero Headquarters: NSW Australia
Name: A-Harmony
Age: 34
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Tomboy (Gal ;-])
Superhero Experience: 6 1/2 years
Superhero Powers: Wife, Mom of 2 (1 preteen boy and 1 teenage GIRL), does not try to let RA stop her from joining in on everything that life throws at me.
Superhero Headquarters: Wisconsin
Name: Jodi
Age: 32
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: About 1 year
Superhero Powers: Photography, loving to puppies, wife of 10 years (!), loves to explore new cities, speaks Japanese, on this new quest to conquer RA.
Superhero Headquarters: New York City
Name: Cammie
Age: 47
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 3 years
Superhero Powers: Mother of three college age boys, wife of 26 years, mom to 2 dogs, 2 cats, an assorted bunch of fish and any stray that happens our way. Loves to cook and to can Salsas. I love to sew and read books. I Can read, write and speak Spanish. On a mission to control RA and not to let RA control me.
Superhero Headquarters: Arizona
Name: Diane
Age: 48
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis G'MA
Superhero Experience: 31 years
Superhero Powers: Accepting RA as a part of who I am. Finding peace and happiness despite the physical issues. Concentrating on the many joys and blessings in my life. Staying positive and happy is the best medicine!
superhero Headquarters: UTAH
Name: Kelly
Age: 39
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 8 years
Superhero Powers: Making it through each day with RA, Fibromyalgia, Grave's Disease, and Sjogren's syndrome while working full time. It's a challenge that is worth fighting!
Superhero Headquarters: Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Name: Alena
Age: 23
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 9 Months
Superhero Powers: Learning how to deal. Balancing life after college, my new career, a boyfriend, friendships, and family - all while maintaining the millennial pace.
Superhero Headquarters: Boise, Idaho
Name: Stephanie
Age: 31
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
SuperHero Experience: 7 months
SuperHero Powers: As of now but could change : knowing what i can and can not do. I can take super naps!! I am a wanna be blogger and an ultimate crafter. I can make anyone laugh!!
Super Hero headquarters: Fullerton, Ca
Name: CoastieWife
Age: 26
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: About a year and a half and counting
Superhero Powers: living with RA, learning how to accept RA, cooking & baking, photography as a hobby & stress reliever, being a PROUD military wife, having a wonderful husband, momma to a wonderful furbaby, having a positive outlook on life...more are added everyday as I realize what my mind and body are capable of!
Superhero Headquarters: Astoria, Oregon
Name: Wende
Age: 39
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Almost two years.
Superhero Powers: Living with RA, working full-time in the crazy hr/telecom world, mother to my three boys, figuring which medical concoction works for now, staying chipper despite wanting to go back to bed, recent subscriber of "arthritis today" which I thought was for "old" people, trying not to get fat, kissing my lovely husband
Superhero Headquarters: Seattle
Name: Tharr
Age: 51
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: 6 years
Superhero Powers: Carrying on a semi-normal lifestyle while living with RA. I work a 12 hour shift 4 days a week as a pressman (printing), take care of a 3.5 acre yard, ride off-road motorcycles and workout 4 days a week. Every superhero has a sidekick ...right? My sidekick buddy that helps me is a Great Pyrenees with a mohawk named Frankie. (Frank's photo with his mohawk is on my blog page.)
Superhero Headquarters: Tornado Alley Oklahoma
Name: Lana
Age: 33
Superhero Type: Working Mother (with RA and Fibromyalgia)Who Loves Her Kids and never stops
Superhero Experience: two years
Superhero Powers: Living with RA and Fibro, being a mom, loving life
Superhero Headquarters: NE Ohio
Name: Rayny
Age: 47
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 32 Years with remissions in there
Superhero Powers: Random thoughts, Laughing at the obsurd, Distraction, Working as much as I can. Keeping my sidekick (hubby with fibro) on his toes.
Superhero Headquarters: DFW Texas
Name: WarmSocks
Age: 45
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Two years
Superhero Powers: Living with ∞itis (RA, etc), blogging, running a home, homeschooling my kids, knitting, gardening...
Superhero Headquarters: Washington
Name: Synovial Sensation
Age: 41
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Mum
Superhero Experience: Diagnosed 2008
Superhero Powers: Epidemiologist (lapsed), nurse (lapsed), swimmer (lapsed), good cook, good company, good enough mother and wife
Superhero Headquarters: London, UK
Name: Kevin
Age: 29
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: Diagnosed 2008
Superhero Powers: Work long hours in a warehouse pulling orders, being a dad of a 12, 6, and 5 y/o. Have a great sense of humor when it comes to most things, always good for a few laughs.
Superhero Headquarters: Upstate NY
Name: Purple Scooter
Age: 28
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: DX 8/11/05 (4 yrs ago today!)
Superhero Powers: Tough broad that doesn't let anything get her down!
Superhero Headquarters: St. Paul
Name: Laura
Age: 21
Superhero Type: Fibromyalgia Girl
Superhero Experience: 3 years (Officially? 3 weeks...)
Superhero Powers: Daughter of Diabetes Gal and niece to her sister, RA/FM Gal. Became Autoimmune Girl my freshman year of college and most recently leveled up to FM Girl. Working to support myself and being a student is hard but my will is strong. I'm also glad to be an advocate and voice for people with invisible disease to people of my age group.
Superhero Headquarters: Dallas, TX but relocating to Austin on 8/15/09.
Name: Ashley A.k.a Raandme
Age: 24
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 4 1/2 years
Superhero Powers: Just trying to get my body back in fighting order so I can finish college. I live with and care for my autistic brother. Have more hobbies than there are hours in the day. I love my life. R.A. or not.
Superhero Headquarters: Texas
Name: Mikeymoo
Age: 40
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: DX 11/06 (3 Years so far)
Superhero Powers: Ability to smile through it and enjoy the moments.
Superhero Headquarters: St. Albans, UK
Name: Goldie Spawn
Age: 29
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 8 months
Superhero Powers: Ability to make it through the tough times, reffing roller derby when I can, taking care of our 5 pet and a husband!
Superhero Headquarters: Castle Rock, CO
Name: Lisa
Age: 35
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Over 7 years
Superhero Powers: Working full-time as a nurse, running a home, cooking, being a good wife, friend and daughter!
Superhero Headquaters: Kent, England
Name: Michigan Gal
Age: 63
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal a.k.a. Health Care Gal
Superhero Experience: 52 yrs (started out as Juvenile Arthritis Gal)
Superhero Powers: Super Grandma; A-1 wife; loving daughter; spent 20+ years as a nurse practitioner treating folks with R.A.; gardener; quilter; student; cat lover
Superhero Headquarters: Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Name: Rebecca
Age: 39
Superhero Type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: about one yr (Diagnosed Oct 2008 but in serious pain since April 2008)
Superhero Powers: Mom of 8 great kids; homeschool; crochet; coupon shopping queen; Wife to one full time construction worker/college student
Superhero Headquarters: Savannah, GA
Name:Lara
age:27
Superhero Type: Lupus +aPL/Fibro Gal
Superhero Experience: 10 years (finally diagnosed in 2007)
Superhero Powers: Supersonic hearing (Can hear any of her 3 children turn over in bed across a house); Super Strength (can amazingly hold 2 toddlers during a flare of Lupus and Fibro pain); Super Hyper-Hyperactivity (can clean house, cook food, care for children all without succumbing to the dreaded Uber Fatigue)
Superhero Headquarters: Garfield, NJ
Name: Nat
Age: 31
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Nearly 15 years.
Superhero Powers: Regularly uprooting myself and moving around the world; multilingual; musician; knitter; eternal student; EFL Teacher (just started full-time work again after a couple of years off).
Superhero Headquarters: Brand New HQ in Tunisia.
Name: Jamie
Age: 46
Superhero Type: RA Gal, OA Gal, Sjogrens' Gal
Superhero Experience: 8 years and living
Superhero Powers: Power four wheeler, Mom to a 9 yr. old, wife,
disabled nurse, RA advocate.
Superhero Headquarters: Northern Indiana
Name: Jan
Age: 47
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 2 years
Superhero Powers: Learning how to deal. Mom of a fabulous daughter with Down Syndrome who will always live with me! Worrying..Lot's of worrying. Working 12 hour shifts in the ER on my feet for 13 hours.
Superhero Headquarters: Summerville, South Carolina
Name: Lisa
Age: 33
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis & Fibromyalgia Gal
Superhero Experience: 5 years RA, brand new to fibro
Superhero Powers: Living with RA, writing a blog, Mom of Three Boys, living a God-centric lifestyle, MOPS steering team, Sabbath School teacher, & keeping sane through a lot of uncertainty.
Superhero Headquarters: East Texas
Name: Turtlemom
Age: 67
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis & Fibromyalgia Gal
Superhero Experience: 25 years with fair control and regular flares
Superhero Powers: Excellent wife, good mother, good grandmother; running a business from home; nurse (lapsed); working with service dog; keeping track of 12 grandchildren; keeping sidekick (husband with heart problems and fibromyalgia) entertained; blogging; great sense of humor.
Superhero Headquarters: Metro Atlanta GA
Name: Koddysmum
Age: 56
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis & Fibro Gal
Superhero Experience: 19 years, very severe last 9 years
Superhero Powers: Excellent wife and mom and learning to be an excellent nana,disabled nurse, wonderful mom to 3 pom fur-kids, enjoy gardening, decorating and photography, counting my blessings and staying positive on this unexpected journey with many rocky roads and steep hills to climb.
Superhero Headquarters: Ontario Canada
Name: Rheann, aka RockinRhea
Age: 51
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 20 years of many ups & downs
Superhero Powers: Continue the RA journey refusing to let it ruin my happy life; Mother of two grown children; Licensed Ins Agent, working full time in sales & marketing; Care, love & keep up with my 2 Doberman Pinschers; Care, love & keep up with my husband who started this journey with me only a few months after we married; I have a very large vegetable garden which brings me peace & self-worth; I love to read, swim, cook, bake, and take care of my home. I have a positive attitude & freely share it.
Superhero Headquarters: Mesquite/Texas
Name: Joye
Age: 38
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: nearly 3 years
Superhero Powers: Mum to 3 year old girl and 8 month old boy, great wife, mother, cook, clean, taxi driver, fairygodmother. Going back to work in January... to be a great nurse again.
Superhero Headquarters: Hamilton, New Zealand
Name: Laura
Age: 25
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Twentysomething
Superhero Experience: 6 years
Superhero Powers: Living with RA away from home, camping, understanding kids, making popcorn, expert pinochle player, and dancer.
Superhero Headquarters: Vashon Island, WA
Name: Mia
Age: 56
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid arthritis/lupus gal
Superhero Exoerience: (only dx July 09) around 4 years
Superhero Powers: working full time with children, taking care of family, husband and 2 daughters, dog walker (sometimes) enjoying what I have
Superhero headquaarters: London, England
Name: Wren
Age: 53
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid arthritis gal
Superhero Experience: 22 years
Superhero Powers: Worked full time as a journalist, raised a daughter, takes care of disabled husband, cooks, cleans, shops, gardens, and is a freelance writer and editor. Appreciates the gifts that the world offers each day to those who take the time to look...
Superhero headquarters: Camino, California
Name: RA Fire Guy
Age: 40
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: Rookie, just diagnosed
Superhero Powers: Continued service while working as a firefighter and the ability to always make my daughter laugh and smile despite what my body feels like.
Superhero Headquarters: Cleveland, Tennessee
Name: Teresa
Age:51
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 5 years
Superhero Powers: Trying to adjust to freelancing as a graphic designer and photographer.
Superhero Headquarters: Nashville, Tennessee
Name: Barbarella
Age: 43 and a half
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis/Fibromyalgia Gal
Superhero Experience: 3 years (RA) / 15 years (fibro)
Superhero Powers: Feline & Other Animal Communications. No human partner, but living with her 3 Superhero Cats (Spider, Lugosi & Ruby) who she finds tolerate her chronic illness so much better than any human that she has met. Works from home as a web & graphic designer. Hobby (and sometimes paid) photographer (has a couple of photography websites to show off her pictures).
Superhero Headquarters: Lanzarote, Canary Islands (autonomous region of Spain off the West Coast of Africa).
Superhero Website: http://www.themadcatlady.com / http://www.catnipcamera.com
Name: Skye
Age: 22
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: About 6 months
Superhero Powers: Living with RA, College Student, Working at Target, Loves music and photography.
Superhero Headquarters: Inland Empire, California.
Name: Pollyanna Penguin
Age: 41
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal/Fibro Gal
Superhero Experience: Depends who you ask. Officially seventeen months/five months
Superhero Powers: Living with (mild) RA, defying stupid RA-beating suggestions from well-meaning friends with a single squawk, running a small business full time, writing my blog, photography, embroidery, crochet, all sorts of needle-crafts, part-time feline management (three cats, one wonderful hubby who job-shares on the cat front)
Superhero Headquarters: Norfolk, UK (Which I love, love, LOVE!!! ... just wish it wasn't so WET right now)
Name: Peter
Age: 29
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: Only eight long years :(
Superhero Powers: Living with RA (mild to moderate these days), educating people that not all people with Arthritis have Rheumatoid...ahem...anyways, working for the Government, chilling with friends, spending quality time with my family.
Superhero Headquarters: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Name: Alecia
Age: 26
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Just getting started
Superhero Powers: Research, research and more research, saving the world one germ at a time (in the military), killing zombies
Superhero Headquarters: Clovis, New Mexico
Name: GlasgowGal
Age: 38
Superhero Type: Juvenile Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 30, yes 30, years and counting....!
Superhero Powers: surviving 2 hip replacements; being married ; working full time; employing Personal Assistants; getting on with life; cooking; crafting; educating people that disability is not something to be scared of! independence is a state of mind, not a list of tasks to be completed; watcher of Star Trek, especially Voyager
Superhero Slogan: make it so.....
Superhero HQ: Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Name: RoboJo
Age: 43
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 17 years
Superhero Powers: Being crazy I love to make folks laugh and smile as it's a great medicine, having a bionic knee, hip, screws in feet, waiting on new shoulders and knuckles. Complete and utter geek lover of pooters and video games. Into Goth/Metal/Rock music. Do talks about RA to medical students and generally try to raise awareness.
Superhero Slogan: No I won't fix your computer..
Superhero HQ: Birmingham, UK.
Name: awellsdba
Age: 44
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 3 months that I've known about
Superhero Powers: Being just a little odd... being perpetually young at heart; having a dead guy (cadaver bone) in my 'boo boo' arm; would be <half> marathon walker; being married; being a mom; believing that I can... and making sure that everyone I know knows about RA and knows that WE can.
Superhero Slogan: There are no girl toys, there are no boy toys, there are JUST toys... (RoboJo... I can SO relate... I'm a total geek too... dba stands for database administrator... and I'm the mom of a kind of goth)
Superhero HQ: Central Texas
Name: Andy
Age: 40
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: since Feb 2009
Superhero Powers: working full time and being a waterman ! my ability to mind surf as I can,t physically , YET !
Superhero Slogan: LOVE THE OCEAN , IN IT , ON IT OR UNDER IT
Superhero HQ: Perth , Western Australia
Roz
Name: Rosalyn
Age: 39 and a half
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 3 years
Superhero Powers: Enjoying every single day as you never know what life will bring, smiling through that Enbrel sting, learning about myself through travel and introspection, keeping weight on this body and running when my right foot will allow it!
Superhero Slogan: Enjoy..
Superhero HQ: San Jose, California
Name: Jill
Age: 42
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 20 years
Superhero Powers: Mother of two gorgeous and brilliant children (boy - 13, girl - 12) and one 3 year old Yorkie who sits on my lap and comforts me on my bad days. Owner of two titanium shoulders, with cadaver bone grafts, one fused wrist with metal rods, one foot with screws, the other foot -soon to be fused. Fatigue fighting and staying healthy are two Superhero Powers that I need work on. Close relationships with several amazing doctors/friends!
Superhero Slogan: One day at a time
Superhero HQ: Medfield, MA
Name: Lim
Age: 38
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 4 years
Superhero Powers: Mother of two active boys(10 & 8)
working full time, loving husband, fatigue and high tolerance toward pain
Superhero Slogan: Take it easy
Superhero HQ: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Name: Candi
Age: 22
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 10 years
Superhero Powers: Juggling a Uni degree with "aunty candi" duties and the prospect of joint replacement whilst keeping a smile on my face. Sitting at home while my friends go out and party/shop/be normal, continue living my life when I just want to amputate my body from my head and put it on Jessica Alba's body....
Superhero Slogan: Keep smiling :)
Superhero HQ: Victoria, Australia
Name: Sunita
Age: 41
Superhero Type: Psoriatic and Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: Almost two years, but hard to say exactly.
Superhero Powers: Being a scientist, dealing with bent fingers, convincing NHS that I need anti-TNF therapy, getting anti-TNF therapy and have it revolutionize my physical being,abandoning walking stick...not knowing how long it'll last, smiling in the face of adversity, drawing, painting, cooking. My cat Rosie.
Superhero Headquarters: London. UK
Name: Shweta
Age: 26
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Basher
Superhero Experience: Six n a half years
Superhero Powers: A Law School Graduate....smiling, having fun and simply being fabulous...no matter what!!
Superhero slogan: Each day is a chance to say that I am not scared!
Superhero website: http://www.croppinghead.blogspot.com/
Superhero Headquarters: All over India
Name: Theresa
Age: 46
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 2 Years
Superhero Powers: Getting up and going to work each day, taking care of my family and feeling pretty well and praying to stay that way.
Superhero North Texas
Name: Ariel
Age: 18
Superhero Type: Spondyloarthropathy Gal
Superhero Experience: 1 year
Superhero Powers: Full-time college student at a university. Big/little sister, and soon-to-be aunt. I'm a teenager living life to the fullest; no matter what my disease sends my way. Artist and writer, even on days when my hands hurt almost too badly to pick up a pencil. I've overcome my fear of needles with Enbrel. Also, raising awareness about all types of arthritis.
Superhero slogan: With each new day come challenges with bring new adventures and build strength.
Superhero Headquarters: Houston, TX
Name: Sarah Beth
Age: 24
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 10 Years
Superhero Headquarters: Northern Virginia
Superhero Powers:teaching, photography, loving my husband, and toughing out life without medication so we can get preggers.
Name: Dannaliz Segrera
Age: 34
Superhero Type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: 4 years
Superhero Headquarter: Miami, FL
Superhero Powers: Pink Energy that allows me to go back to school, work as a consultant, start dancing again, continue walking on the beach, taking long drives with hubby, and finally getting out of bed in the AM, getting dressed, bathing and walking without assistance.
Name: Christina
Age: 36
Superhero Type: RA mom, wife, student
Superhero Experience: 20 years
Superhero Headquarter: New Orleans, Louisiana
Superhero Powers: Fighting fatigue to keep going. Pouring from a gallon of milk, by using the edge of a table or countertop. Using a supercool electric toothbrush, because a regular one hurts to hold.
Name: Charron
Age: 42
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis & Fibromyalgia Gal
Superhero Experience: 4.5 years RA, 2 years Fibro
Superhero Powers: Positive Thinking, Great Sense of Humour, Fighting Fatigue, Taking one day at a time
Superhero Headquarters: Ontario, Canada
Name: Swin (aka squirelly666)
Age: 38
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: 18 months
Superhero Powers: Losing weight, despite the Prednisolone, stopping the painkillers before I get addicted.
Superhero Headquarters: Lancashire, United Kingdom
Name: Morris (Van Landschoot)
Age: 22
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy
Superhero Experience: 9 months
Superhero Powers:refusing extra painkillers, studying in the week and working as a waiter in the weekend with my collegue RA
Superhero Headquarters: Gent, Belgium
Name: Kirsten (kirbir)
Age: 22
Superhero Type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: 18 years
Superhero Powers: only taking otc drugs, managing pain through meditation, working my butt off and hopefully getting my phd
Superhero Headquarters: Madison, Wisconsin
Name: Lene
Age: 47
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal
Superhero Experience: 43 years
Superhero Powers: Organizing pretty much anything, seeing the funny even in the dark, writing, photography, being positive
Superhero Headquarters: Toronto, Canada
Name: Rachel
Age: 40
Superhero Type: Rheumatoid Arthritis Gal Extraordinaire
Superhero Experience: 21 years
Superhero Powers: Ability to make a pun about just about anything (it's called Pununciation Disorder); love my friends and family, still working (though wish it wasn't so hard to wake up in the mornings), love my crazy cat Willow, and wish that I had the time and energy to write that novel that's been banging around in my head for years. One titanium knuckle, every limb decorated with delightful scarring from operations to straighten and fix limbs/joints, awaiting my first hip replacement. I am also a superhero because I survived two burst brain aneurysms 4 years ago - with no damage, unlike the RA. So hoorah for all of our superhero powers!
Superhero Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia.
Name: Bailey
Age: 15
Superhero Type: Spondyloarthropathy Gal
Superhero Experience: Diagnosed today, symptoms for 3 1/2 months
Superhero Powers: Academics (I want to be a rheumatologist), staying happy through everything (including giving up sports), taking painful Humira shots, and loving life(:
Superhero Headquarters: Texas
Name: Terri
Age: 44
Superhero type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: 35+ Years
Superhero Powers: Invisibility and positivity cloak; a more than full time exec at a fortune 500 that keeps a smile on her face and can find the silver lining in any situation; spurred on by the faces and love of two small grandchildren that remind me of what really matters in life - staying strong and positive so I can enjoy them for years to come
Superhelo Headquarters: Western Suburb of Chicago
Name: Seeking Solace
Age: 42
Superhero Type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: 10 years
Superhero Powers: Former attorney practicing in the toughest area of law there is...family and matrimonial law. Currently a college professor corrupting young legal minds at an undergraduate college. Loving wife to the world's greatest husband/caregiver and mom to the world's coolest dog.
Superhero Headquarters: Elsewhere in the Southeast
Name: ChileKat
Age: 62
Su0erhero Type: RA Gal
Superhero Experience: 16 years
Superhero Powers: Upbeat and nearly always smiling and happy. Work full-time and love it. I have 3 fabulous grandchildren who love me to bits and are my very heart and soul. RA will not take that away from me!
Superhero Headquarters: Bellevue, Nebraska