Blog Articles by Month: August 2011

Getting Good Medical Care for RA

This week, I’m talking about being proactive about your care on MyRACentral: “‘Be proactive about your medical care.’ We hear that a lot, those six little words. When you have a chronic illness like rheumatoid arthritis, it’s essential to be proactive to make sure you get the best care that can help protect your body…

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City (on a) Bus

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In Which My Mother Scares Everybody

“She’s in the ICU.” These are not words you want to hear about your mother. Well, about anyone, I suspect, but in this particular case, we’d expected her (relatively) routine back surgery – spinal fusion and correcting spinal stenosis – to go smoothly and to receive a call from someone on a regular ward telling…

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