Vacation, All I Ever Wanted...We were gathered together in our small group surrounded by soybean and cornfields with the occasional bat flapping overhead (I told myself they were birds... By Angela Lundberg4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments8 comments
New FDA Pregnancy Labeling Standards – Not As Boring As It Sounds!!...to be rather confusing and were often misinterpreted by patients as a safety grading system.... By Mariah Z. Leach3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments1 comments
Hello, Representative. Does My Insurance Cover Sex Therapy?...The PDF we were looking at listed some things that were specifically excluded, but it didn’t specify what was included.... By Mariah Z. Leach4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments3 comments
Showing Off My Scars...If I were a painted canvas, I would be an original, abstract piece of modern art. Instead, I’m a walking illustration of tenacity.... By Kelly Mack2 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Lisa Learns to Ride, Part I...A good bike would need handle-bars that were comfortable and gear-shifters and brakes that were easy to use.... By Rob2 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments3 comments
Thoughts For People Newly Diagnosed With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Part 1...If you were recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were scared, mad, frustrated, anxious, and overwhelmed - sometimes... By Kathryn Elton, OTR3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments3 comments
What a Year...Things were looking up. Yeah, right! We started March with a lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were mostly confined to our homes.... By Monica Y. Sengupta3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Protect Your Skin from Photosensitive Reactions...Rob and I were in Switzerland following a conference I had spoken at and we had extended our trip for a few days to explore the beautiful cities of... By Lisa Emrich4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments2 comments
How RA and Chronic Illness Make Us More Empathetic...Well, I think it comes down to 1 thing — the "e" word. No, not electricity.... By Daniel Malito4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments13 comments
Sympathy vs Understanding: Others Simply Can't Relate to My Life with RA...There hasn’t been a day of my life that I haven’t thought about my RA, but that’s just something we’re supposed to get used to, right?... By Amanda Osowski3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments18 comments
A Smoother Cycle...They were celebrating my movement with me, and I felt that for just that moment, everything was right in the world.... By Tamara Haag4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments0 comments
Advocating for Pain Relief and Breastfeeding with RA...Within minutes, I realized that these women were more educated on breastfeeding and RA than my rheumatologist.... By Janeil Whitworth3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Long Nights and Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Problem of Chronic Insomnia ...For years, I’ve had a very strong inkling that most of my problems with insomnia were related to pain.... By Kathryn Elton, OTR2 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments6 comments
My Strange Hands...I remember taking typing in middle school where we were told to hit certain keys with certain fingers.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments21 comments
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Early Menopause...The airflow and temperature in the store were normal.... By Lynn Marie Witt, MSOT4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments22 comments
Fear of Fear of Missing Out (FOFOMO)...It took me a ton of missed concerts and parties I heard about the next day to develop a way to deal with the uncertainty of RA. ... By Daniel Malito5 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments8 comments
When Do I Talk? What Do I Tell?...You go to a restaurant that you think you’ll like for the first time, and when you get the menu it has every dish you’ve ever heard of. ... By Daniel Malito4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments2 comments
A Different Sort of Family...A couple years into our marriage I started to question whether children were in the cards.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments4 comments
Christmas Is Not Always Full of Happy Memories...Of course, there were also some daily passes when she got to come home. But, those were exceedingly rare.... By L rick Phillips3 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments13 comments
My 20th RAnniversary...I felt like all the plans I had taken for granted were now uncertain.... By Tamara Haag4 min readBookmark for laterReactions0reactionsComments4 comments