Through 29 years of living with rheumatoid arthritis, I have experienced both painful flares and periods of remission. I have tried many different medications and treatment regimens. I spent years in physical and occupational therapy and had many, many splints and other funky contraptions to straighten contractures and reshape slowly deforming bones. I have had several relatively successful surgeries, though maybe not with my ideal outcomes. Detailing my whole history of arthritis would...