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Sara Nash

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posted 10/14/2009, comments (18)

The Dead Sea and Me

See the accompanying comic! 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 Chevron

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posted 10/07/2009, comments (28)

Great Expectations

Be kind to yourself, we say. Work within your limits, we say. Accommodate your illness. Don't push yourself too hard. Sometimes, it sounds as if now that you have rheumatoid arthritis, it comes first no matter what. If managing pain means doing less, does that mean you have to give up on your dreams? I've been thinking a lot about... Read more Chevron

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Lene Andersen

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posted 09/23/2009, comments (28)

The R-Word

"Are you in remission?" I cannot answer. My throat is closed, the words caught somewhere deep within. I can't even answer the question in writing, instead starting the sentence and then deleting, starting another one, phrased slightly differently and delete that, too, before I even get to the part about the R-word. Just writing it in that... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/16/2009, comments (20)

Turning 30 and My Choice to Fight Rheumatoid Arthritis

This is not at all the way I had imagined my life. These are not the plans I had made for myself. I had plans and goals to accomplish and I just knew nothing would get in the way of my dreams. I was going to have it all! Little did I know that I was going to have it all, alright! I was going to have pain in... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/07/2009, comments (2)

Comfort Tip for RA in the morning

I was just diagnosed with RA. Pain is at its worse in the morning. I moved my craftmatic bed back into my bedroom. It makes it so much easier to get out of bed with the least pain. Moving around early in the morning, a little exercise, coffee, breakfast and meds help me get my motor running.

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