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...I called them and they said the roads were not good. I did not go....

...My performing partner brought me down softly and admonished, "No more, we're taking you to a specialist!"...

...I don't plan to have any regrets about chances I did not take, decisions I did not properly weigh, choices I was too afraid or angry to make....

...out of bed but I managed to get through the year with my mum home schooling me, once I was better it started to look up for me as my anti-body...

...I had previously lost 2 of my sisters a few months a part, which had caused a lot of emotional stress to say the least, they were my best...

...As my career is in health care doing personal care of patient’s there were many mornings I was in tears or close to them getting ready for work but...

...that’s why I wanted to become an ambassador for The Walk to Fight Arthritis to begin with, because I think it is important for all of our stories to be...

...Many many moons ago a young girl and her best friend were taken to the doctor’s office for their annual immunizations....

...In fact, as my family pointed out (over and over I might add until I was finally able to shed the guilt I seemed to wear like a second...

...We didn’t allocate particular days as to what we were going to do until the day before, we based our days on this to see how I felt at...

...I woke up on the fifth day in the worst pain I have ever experienced, my hands and wrists were very painful and had stiffened up....

...LOL When everything you were 4 years ago is just gone. It seems like it was over night but I know it was slow and out of my hands....

...That is one of the really annoying (a much stronger word remains unwritten here but, trust me, is flying around in my head) aspects of RA....

...Try something you have wanted to do but maybe were reluctant to try in the dead of winter. A walk on the beach is one of my favorites!...

...My ankles would swell till I couldn't wear shoes, pain in my hips and tailbone that are agony to sit on, infections in my sinuses, bronchial tubes, and...

...I feel guilty using the word disappoints, but it rings true. I have always had a tendency to “overshare”. I talk a lot!...

...Find your strengths, with RA hovering over our heads it’s hard to find or even remember what our strengths were, we all get put in a position of weakness...

...As time went on, however, and I began to make choices about the treatment and management of RA, I decided that there were still things I could control...

...After a period of time, I began to limp and my left hip and leg were painful when I walked....