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 dreams lately. That is, when I wasn't up to my ears in work putting together my first exhibit of photographs - I'd thought of it in my wildest dreams, but...