The winter after I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis was one of the hardest for me. Living in New York City can be brutal no matter the season, but what made that winter even more difficult was the fact that because my disease was practically invisible; no stranger ever came to my rescue to open a door I couldn't push open or to give up a... Read more
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The other day while showing my mother pictures from my recent trip to Egypt and Jordan, she said to me, "You know, you never took all these crazy kind of trips before you had RA."
She has a point. Although I did plenty of traveling before my rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis in 2007, most of it was to... Read more
Last summer, I journeyed through South America on an amazing trip that fell over the anniversary of my first RA symptoms. It was my little way of telling my RA to shove it. This year, I am embarking on another bold trip that might even top last year’s: I am off to Egypt and Jordan to see the Pyramids, sleep under the stars in Wadi Rum... Read more
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When I turned 30, I had a feeling my life was entering a new phase and that I was going to find myself in a very different place by the end of the year. Turns out, I was right: in just a few weeks, I will be packing my bags and moving to Baltimore to start a new job and a new life!
For nearly seven... Read more
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I'm usually a pretty brave girl when it comes to dealing with the trials and travails of living with rheumatoid arthritis, but there is one subject that makes me feel, well, a little spooked: (dare my fingers even type the word?) Remission.
Somehow, though my condition has steadily improved... Read more
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