The first thing we try to do is to "deny" that we are in pain. Deny that we need treatment. Deny that anything worse could happen. Then when the pain is unbearable and our joints start to wilt, we do the "why me?". The truth is there is no answer.
For me personally, the journey has been nothing shor...
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Rose
Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 07:54 PMre: Untitled Comment
Ellen
Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 11:03 AMI have to agree with Rose - there are times when I feel 'fighting' the disease makes it worse, I try and work with it. It doesn't always work, but it's certainly a different kind of battle. Roshni's description of "it having her, not the other way around" fits! Most of the time I can be positive, I'd rather not hear people all the time saying, Oh that's too bad everything you have to deal with. But sometimes I do vent, or get upset, and then I have to say, to end it - do I want to waste the time and energy I have getting upset, or doing something I can do?
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My name is Rose and I just posted my story. Glad to hear you say "embraceing your Arthrits." I read an article recently where this woman called her illness "Bette Noir", The Beast. I really do believe that when we stop fighting the "Why me and the what ifs we can begin to cope better.