I think most of us are familiar with the milk bottle carnival game. A number of glass milk bottles are stacked in a pyramid, and players must knock all of the bottles of the platform with the throw of one (or three?) baseballs. Some people claim that this game can be easily rigged, by making [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy woke up one day and thought “Wow, every things seems to be going quite well!” The best part about this moment that I experienced was that I was not at all referring to my rheumatoid arthritis. Instead, I was referring to my life.
Whether my RA was active [...]
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yesterday marked the completion of one full week in which Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy can say that he, and not his rheumatoid arthritis, was back in charge.
After being dragged around for months by my pain and inflammation, it was nice to get off this ride. If this were [...]
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day. -Dalai Lama
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy has been thinking a lot about the “old me” and the “new me”. By [...]
Rhuematoid Arthritis Guy loves sports championships.
Granted, I don’t watch the NBA finals anymore. (I just don’t have the time to watch so many games…) But I did follow this recent series on twitter…does that count?
And the truth is, for me baseball has never progressed much beyond a sunny afternoon outing to the ballpark – hotdogs, [...]
When Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy was a little kid, he loved board games. Board games ruled, even with their lost parts and all! The cardboard boxes that squished under the weight of air were a classic (leading to even more lost parts, as the stack of board games fell over anytime you tried to pull one [...]
Reach the stars,
And fly a fantasy,
Dream a dream,
And what you see will be.
-Theme song from “The Neverending Story”.
Rhuematoid Arthritis Guy has made some great strides during the past couple of months when it comes to accepting the chronic nature of his rheumatoid arthritis.
Even though I have already lived with RA for many years, I sometimes [...]
