In an email that I received the other day, a reader asked me if I ever feel like a burden to those people who are around me. When I stopped to ask myself this question, my answer was an immediate “no”. It’s sort of funny in a way, though, because the last few times that [...]
When you live with a chronic illness like rheumatoid arthritis, going to all of your different health care appointments can easily feel like a full time job. And to make the situation even more complicated, everything is usually in a different place. You have to go one place to see your rheumatologist, another place to [...]
Today’s post discusses the sensitive yet important topics of depression and suicide. I have received suicide letters here in the past both as emails and blog comments (never published of course), and my hope is that by sharing my own personal story, I might be able to help others who are struggling with these [...]
“There is one best place to bury a dog. If you bury him in this spot, he will come to you when you call – come to you over the grim, dim frontier of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel, [...]
Earlier today, I started my day by reading the following words on the Facebook page for Toni Bernhard’s book “How To Be Sick”:
I awoke to an email from a woman who finds comfort in the same words I do from Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck in Chapter 3 of the book: “Our [...]
One of the most common statements that I have heard over the past few years, from people living with rheumatoid arthritis, is the importance of trying to make others–family members, friends, co-workers, and complete strangers–aware of how severe an impact this disease has on our lives. Actually, what we need goes beyond just having people [...]
Being positive doesn’t necessarily lessen the severe pain that I often experience as a result of having rheumatoid arthritis, but it certainly makes it much easier to cope with and accept as part of my life. A couple of years ago, I (and others) planted this seed in the dark, gloomy world that I had [...]
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“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, ‘There’s nothing that I can do for you that you can’t do for yourself.’ He said, ‘Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.’ So I sat with him a while then [...]
