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...Tomorrow afternoon, I have a Zoom meeting scheduled with the Associate Director of Recruitment and Admissions at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health. I'm excited to meet and...

...I am grateful for many things related to health, in general, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA/RD) in particular. I try to regularly take time to think about the many things for...

...I recently shared an article about an unexpected, rather emergent surgery I had to repair a ruptured disc in my back. The injury, subsequent quest for surgery, and recovery shook...

...I've been in therapy for a while now--probably since I was in high school. I've also tried multiple modalities of therapy; cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, group therapy, etc...

...Isolation. Loneliness. Separation. All of these basically have the same meaning to the “man on the street,” “Jane Q. Public,” and the laymen out there, but to those of us...

...When you live with RA, relationships of any sort are, at best, challenging and, at worst, nearly impossible. While open communication is a must, I often find it difficult to...

...It’s seared in my memory: sitting in my wheelchair across the desk of my school guidance counselor with my mother sitting beside me, talking about my goal to go to...