Domino Effect
About 10 days ago, I had a bit of a wonky transfer. The person helping me to get from my bed to the chair put her foot half an inch closer to me than it should have been, blocking my left leg from moving and my left ankle twisted. These things happen. My left leg…
Muffin: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
This cat has mind and personality to spare, but she is also beautiful. She is completely different from Lucy’s tall and elongated frame, Siamese-narrow face and rather coarse coat. Muffin is short and compact, standing solidly on this earth, with a face as broad as a tomcat’s. Her eyes are ever alert and communicating her…
User’s Choice Awards
The Arthritis Foundation is currently accepting nominations for their User’s Choice Awards. These awards will be giving out to products and services that work well for people living with arthritis.Categories include cell phone, weight management, car, hotel, health plan and so on. Nominations are open until Sunday, October 21, so hop on over and nominate…
Real RA: Blood Tests of Perspective
RA isn’t just about inflammation and your joints. RA is a systemic disease, also affecting muscles, organs and other systems in your body. The first time I learned about that was when I was 12 when it tried to kill me by attacking my heart and liver. The reason there has historically been a mortality…
Waving for World Arthritis Day
Today is World Arthritis Day. One of their nifty activities is the awareness campaign Wave for World Arthritis Day. The idea is beautifully simple, something everyone can do: take a photo or video of yourself and family and friends waving and submit it to the World Arthritis Day website. So that’s what we did after…
World Arthritis Day: Global Awareness and You
Tomorrow is World Arthritis Day and all sorts of cools things are happening. I wrote about some of them on HealthCentral: “You are not alone. All over the world, millions of people live with arthritis. This Friday, October 12, is World Arthritis Day – a time for all of us to get together and make…
Join the Show Us Your Hands! Board!
Show Us Your Hands! is moving to the next level. We are beginning the process of becoming an official nonprofit charity organization in order to continue organizing creative community projects and awareness campaigns aimed at increasing public understanding of inflammatory arthritis. This means we need to grow our Board of Directors. This is where you…
The Time of My Life
Ah… The bliss of long weekends. Today is Canadian Thanksgiving and although I never really got into the habit of eating turkey, I do like the part where you remember about gratitude. I was talking to my naturopath the other day about stress, its physical manifestations and ways to manage that. I talked about being…
La Lune et Les Moutons
Nuit Blanche, the annual night-time art extravaganza, was last Saturday. I haven’t gone before because it’s the last weekend in September and and that usually means it’s cold, but there was this sheep thing down the street…. So we wandered out under the full Harvest Moon, headed to see Transhumance by Corpus. Originally based on…
Generational Dissonance
The automatic door opener on my apartment’s front door decided to become processed this weekend. Perhaps it is Regan being a bad influence. Regardless of cause, the thing started opening the door repeatedly without provocation or encouragement from me. This was a tad unnerving. It was also extremely frustrating, as this is the mechanism that…