Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy is happy to return from his ten-day break. When I started blogging in April of this year, I thought that I would write at the most one or two posts a week. Before I knew it, I realized that I had been writing a daily post for an entire six months! So [...]
Arthritis Ireland: Coping With Emotions
Arthritis Ireland have won the award for the ‘Best Patient Education Project’ at the recent Irish Healthcare Awards 2009 for its ‘Coping With Emotions’ booklet.
In response to the findings of a survey on the impact of arthritis on people’s emotions, Arthritis Ireland has produced a new booklet called ‘Coping With Emotions’ that offers support [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy continues to learn how to live with his rheumatoid arthritis, and not suffer from it. Since I started writing this blog, I have taken a lot of care to always refer to myself as “a person living with RA”, and not “a person suffering from RA”. The distinction might be a subtle [...]
Yesterday Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy felt like the ground fell out from underneath his feet. Normally this wouldn’t have been so bad since he has a cape to help him during these exact types of situations…but as luck would have it, the cape was at the dry cleaners.
Following my 4 a.m. wake-up call, the morning continued [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy, during his more difficult periods of living with rheumatoid arthritis, is often surprised by the comments and messages her receives from people who thank him for the optimistic attitude of living with RA that he shares here on this blog. Sometimes, when my challenges are big, I do not always recognize that [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy recently realized that he was one half of an unhealthy relationship. I used to think that everything was going just great…but I now know that this was not the case. So, I decided that the best thing for me was to bring an end to this relationship.
Oh, don’t worry – I’m not [...]
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Sometimes, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy would swear that a little troll lives under his bed. This troll, having nothing better to do, jumps out a couple of hours before I wake up and whacks me with a sledgehammer. This morning, he decided to get my feet.
There have been many times when rheumatoid arthritis has greatly affecting [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy has recently started having doubts about the change of medication (from Arava to Plaquenil) that his rheumatologist recommended last week. On one hand, this has nothing to do with anything that is going on in the present, but is instead related to a really bad period I had in the past while [...]
