Thursday, May 31, 2012

Kadie's Posts

RA & Relationships

Does anyone have advice on how they have dealt with being in a relationship while having a chronic and variable incapacitating disease? My relationship is relatively new, just a year, and she is over 10 years younger than me. Now, during a flare, I feel ANCIENT compared to her, and am so afraid of holding her back from her life. Our biggest... Read moreChevron

I don't recognize my hands anymore..

After years of knee pain and several months of hand pain, I finally got tested last week: Rheumatoid factor of 248. But I can't get an appointment with a Rheumatologist to be officially dx until April. (New Orleans has a healthcare crises.) Meanwhile, every day my hands are more swollen and have just started to twist. I looked at them last night... Read moreChevron