March 8th, 2010

One More RA Blog

The Thousand Teeth
I am a thirty-something wife, stay-at-home mom, school volunteer, community group leader, writer, scrapbooker, jewelry designer. Oh yeah, and I have this chronic, painful disease called rheumatoid arthritis that tries to take all that away from me. This journal is all about me trying to keep it all together while still living a [...]

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March 8th, 2010

More RA Blogs

Southern Girl with RA
I am a single, proud mom in my 30’s. I was diagnosed with seronegative RA over a year ago. I have been taking methotrexate and Arava without benefit. I am about to embark on a journey of taking antibiotics for my RA. I am excited about the possibility of remission and I [...]

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February 28th, 2010

Grand Piano

Shari says:
I’m 35 and was recently diagnosed with RA (although I tried to convince the rheumatologist otherwise!).
For several years I dismissed all the symptoms as nothing more than the stress of being a recently divorced single mother, trying to make ends meet as an administrative assistant by day and a piano instructor in my home [...]

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February 26th, 2010

It’s A Small (RA) World

Okay, two messages that I received just made my day.
Yesterday, two readers of this blog both realized that they were at the same college in the United States, and met each other in person. One is a student, and the other is a faculty member.
“Neither of us had known anyone else in the area with [...]

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February 23rd, 2010

My Bum Thumb

Understanding and Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cari Elliott is a sophomore Mass Media student at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.  She loves to write, even when her hands (and her bum thumb) do not.  After obtaining her degree, Cari hopes to become an author, preferably of science fiction and fantasy novels, but she would be [...]

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Another great post and comic strip by Sara from The Single Gal’s Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis can be found at MyRACentral.com.

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February 15th, 2010

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 [...]

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Fellow RA bloggers RheumaBlog and ∞ itis have been nominated for Best Patient Weblog. Please be sure to visit medGadget and vote today! (You are allowed to vote once a day, so please show as much support as possible to these two individuals who do such a fine job of representing the RA blogging community!)

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