Two Years and Counting...As a child my hips ached so much that I couldn’t sleep.... By Kelly Mack2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments6 comments
It's A Flare and I Am Not Nuts...That my pain was due to just having my 2nd child (3 months earlier) and I needed to go to bed when I was tired and wake up when... By dollyb29111 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
Does RA Run in Families?...In one Swedish study, people with a first-degree relative (parent, sibling, or child) with RA were roughly 3 times more likely to develop RA compared to... By Janeil Whitworth2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments17 comments
When life was young and in love with all the flowers and sunshine....Now am I not the poster child of the year.... By 1 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
Psychologically Speaking.......Like most of us 50-ish, I've been through some challenging times... multiple surgeries, child birth etc. and through all of them managed to deal with it... By 1 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
Reading Without Hands...I loved being read to as a child.... By Wren3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments2 comments
Newly Diagnosed and Unprepared...I feel like a lost child in a BIG world at times and I have never cried so much from the peer emotions of fear.... By ccrowder1231 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
A Fight for Awareness...But what about the 7 year old child who has to sit out in gym class because her joints just don't want to work that day? I fight for... By megkoelzer1 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments5 comments
The day I became a mother...daughter and be barely able to take care of me The day I became a mother was the beginning of a new life With a debilitating disease and a wonderful... By sissinou1 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
Turn and Face the Strange Ch-Ch-Changes...It was daunting as a child, but also, I didn't know any differently.... By beccafloyd1 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments10 comments
Methotrexate Access...The drug can put the disease into remission so that the child can live a pain-free life. On June 24, 2022, the U.S.... By Editorial Team 3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments1 comments
Talking to Myself...There are so many things I would like to tell myself as a child.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
Managing??...We have lost the “neighborhood mentality” that was common when I was a child.... By Mary Sophia Hawks2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
Scary Reality...I am an only child of parents who were also only children, so no living family.... By introvert2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments21 comments
Don’t Neglect Mental Health...As a child, this was a huge issue because I was not equipped to handle such a huge issue.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments7 comments
Diminishing Returns of Exercise...As a child, my physical therapist would work my joints and assign exercises at home.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments15 comments
Further Along the Pain Management Road ...I have realized that the pain messages I internalized as a young child, the distraction, and the smile on the outside ideas aren’t helping me as much anymore... By Kathryn Elton, OTR3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments7 comments
MPH: A Career in Healthcare?...School of Public Health offers several MPH programs to choose from, such as Community Health Promotion, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Maternal and Child... By Angela Lundberg2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments3 comments
Off the Spectrum...When I was a small child, I didn’t know anyone else with RA so I couldn’t compare.... By Kelly Mack2 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments4 comments
Failing Expectations...I think about the drugs that I took as a child that didn’t work.... By Kelly Mack3 min readBookmark for laterReactions 0 reactions Comments16 comments
