Expect the Unexpected
Because there’s moisture inside. There’s not supposed to be moisture inside the joystick. There are electronics inside the joystick box, including a circuit board, wires and all sorts of things that you very definitely do not want to get wet. Which is why I put a protective sandwich bag over the joystick whenever I go…
Losing Weight with RA and Chronic Pain
I`ve been feeling pudgy lately. What better way to deal with it than to recruit weightloss buddies on a grand scale? This is my new post for HealthCentral: “How do you lose weight with RA? That’s a good question, one that I’ve been stuck on for a while. These days there’s more of me than…
5 Randoms on Monday
Hello, blog people! Did you miss me? I wandered off there for a while. Not deliberately, but life happened rather a lot and there has been very little time to write. Here are five thoughts from the last two weeks that may shed some light on what I’ve been up to: Be careful what you…
Weird around Wheelchairs; Thoughts on Disability Etiquette
“What size is she?” Early in our relationship, The Boy and I had wandered into a store. I’d expressed an interest in some T-shirts that were on sale and as a sales clerk expressed an interest in helping me, she asked The Boy the above question. She did not ask me. She asked the person…
Summer Flowers
Yesterday, I read an article in the paper in which the Weather Network is quoted as saying the winter weather will continue through the month of March. And I almost cried. As the winter from hell shows no sign of abating, I know I’m not the only one who’s had it with this crap. Herewith…
Shining a Light
In almost 1400 posts over the last 9 years, I have shared my life here on The Seated View. Many of those posts were about RA, fibromyalgia, chronic pain and disability and my thoughts and feelings about living within a reality that is sometimes difficult, sometimes funny and sometimes just… life. Some posts were explorations…