11:00 am Saturday morning – I have one hour to take a bath, get dressed, and head over to the local health clinic in order to get another Diclofenac injection. The silver lining to the situation is that even though a large number of joints are in pain, they are at least continuing to move. [...]
Yesterday morning, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy once again attended one of his regularly scheduled physical therapy session. I used to go to PT three times a week, but recently have been able to reduce this to two times a week. On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, after I finish my yoga class, I head over to physical [...]
Yesterday, while most of my friends and family were sharing the details of the great bargains they found during Black Friday shopping, or preparing for the long journey back home by either plane, train, or automobile, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy was preparing to go to class.
If you live outside of the United States, you will find [...]
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy apologizes in advance, if any of the metaphors that are used in today’s post do not make sense.
If I were a contestant in Top Chef right now, I would definitely be “in the weeds” – restaurant lingo for not being able to keep up with the orders; swamped. (Speaking of chefs and [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy, in general, is not a very superstitious person. Sometimes it can get all too complicated to keep up with the different good luck/bad luck rules.
Case in point: Having grown up in the U.S., I learned that Friday the 13th was an unlucky day. During high school, I lived in Italy for a [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy’s episodes of morning stiffness are back. (If this was a Bruce Willis movie, they would be back with a vengeance!)
During the almost five years in which I have lived with rheumatoid arthritis, I have experienced these episodes on and off. They have always been limited to my knees and ankles. It has [...]
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” Albert Einstein
Yesterday was a rough day for Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy. All day long, I felt like everything was way off balance…sort of like a tall stack of plates that is beginning to wobble around. If there is anything good that came [...]
Last evening Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy had a long telephone conversation with his sister. The longest period that usually passes between our phone calls is usually a week or two, but due to lots of different reasons on both ends our most recent gap exceeded our norm. No complaints on my end though, as that only [...]
