This was the amount of time over the past two days during which I was absolutely pain free. No, not just “the pain is not registering” pain free. I’m speaking about a complete absence of pain. 100%. Even my physical therapist was surprised when I showed up for my appointment yesterday, exhibiting absolutely no signs [...]
LivingRheum: Value In Stillness
I sat with that thought for a while. Maybe I needed to stop fighting the stillness and just for a while embrace it.
So I did.
Read More: http://www.livingrheum.com/2010/02/15/rheumatoid-arthritis-value-in-stillness/
A few months ago I too stopped fighting against the moments of physical stillness that were outside of my control, and started using them as moments to look inside [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy is in day four of a cold. Day 1: sore throat. Day 2: congested head. Day 3: sneezing. Day 4: coughing. While most of South America is tossing water balloons, wrapping themselves with streamers, and partying late into the night (Carnival celebrations started this past Thursday and last until this coming Tuesday), [...]
To date, RA Guy has gone through four distinct stages during his journey with rheumatoid arthritis. I wonder how many stages I’ve yet to experience?
My first period lasted a few years, and corresponds to the time when I was already living with rheumatoid arthritis but didn’t know it. There were various periods where my knees [...]
The rainy season has started. Even though this is our summertime, the combination of high altitude, clouds, and rain makes it feel like wintertime. Yesterday we had quite a storm right after lunchtime – thunder (my dogs are never happy when strange noises start coming out of the sky) and a strong downpour for a [...]
Remicade Dream: Acceptance Or Giving Up?
I think that something exists out there that embraces the best of both – accepting the reality of the illness while still hoping and working towards a possible future without it, or at least with a lasting remission. I have no idea how to get to it. I know that it’s not much fun for [...]
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About four months ago, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy experienced some of his deepest lows in his multiyear journey of living with RA. I thought that I would never get out of the situation I was in, and giving up hope often seemed to be the easiest thing to do. The smallest of movements caused the most [...]
A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter or teeter board) is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other goes down.
In a playground setting, the board is balanced in the exact center. A person sits on each end and they take turns pushing their feet against [...]
