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...Last year around this time I realized my current medication wasn’t working as well, that it’s effects were fading....

...This time, we’re talking about sheets and blankets. What’s comfortable? What’s not?...

...Within the next 2 weeks, the third finger of my dominant hand became increasingly worse with swelling and inability to straighten without intractable pain...

...Unfortunately, my foot pain symptoms were not taken as seriously as I would have liked them to....

...Not only were my joints severely damaged by the disease and caused me great pain, but my mobility and energy was limited by them....

...My bones were under aggressive attack and were breaking down....

...In addition, we ended up without access to insurance for 2 weeks, even though we were technically covered....

...I used to think that when my joints were doing well I could start back to some of my more intense forms of movement.  ...

...So I disposed of the AHA’s goals and set my own which were just above what I’d get on a normal day....

...The wear and tear of life require rest for all humans to recover from the day....

...Last year, a third of the drug spending in the plan, $42.7 million dollars, went to specialty medications from only 1.7% of claims....

...Not long ago, Rob and I were sitting on our front porch listening to the birds sing and watching squirrels scurry around the yard....

...It is unclear whether this is because they were reinfected, or if they never fully recovered in the first place....

...I was diagnosed when my children were still quite young (3 children under 5 at the time)....

...“Maybe they were backdated and finally running through” said the insurance company. No, try again....

...The years I spent trying to sort out the symptoms before it was clinically diagnosed were hideous....

...I lost three weeks of break-in time that early summer, and when I got to the place where I would be backpacking, my boots were not in the best...

...Like 2 people who were skeptical of each other, I had my first official doctor-patient meeting in March....

...I was just breezing along, enjoying how the words were flying out of my mind and onto the screen like swifts darting overhead on a clear blue day....

...The careers of the workers were being quickly replaced by increasing industrialization, mechanization, and outsourcing to lower-cost labor....