Masking RA: How to Stop Pretending We’re Fine
Do you pretend to be better than you are? Do you hide your pain, your fatigue, maybe you illness itself? In my new article for HealthCentral, I write about the damage pretending with do to us and our relationships and share tips for taking off the mask: “We all do it — pretend that everything…
Facebook Live: Guilt and Chronic Illness
So many of us feel so much guilt. As you know, I wrote a post about guilt — particularly writer guilt — a little while ago, but I couldn’t get it out of my head. So I took at the Facebook. In this month’s #AskLene, we talked about guilt, chronic illness, and how to let…
Navigating Medicare With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Parts A, B, C, D, and then there’s supplemental parts with many more letters… feeling lost? Which Medicare plans will you need for your RA, how do you get coverage for the meds and care you need, and how will you know it all? In my new article for HealthCentral, I break it all down…
2019 Calendars or How’d It Get To Be October Already?
It is like always like this: I have spent the first three weeks of October in a frenzy of going through every single photo I took since January 1 of the year, sorting, editing, sorting again (I take a lot of photos), doing significant battle with myself about which of my favourites get to prevail….
Photo Friday: Bonding with a Baboon
I think they saw me as the food truck. What with the wheeled conveyance and all. We went to the zoo and no matter where we went, the animals would pop up their heads and look at me with interest. Not the “oh, look — Meals on Wheels” kind of interest, but with clear anticipation….
Book Review: Errant Gods (Blood of the Isir)
It’s not often that you read a book in which a character has rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I don’t recall such a character ever being the hero of any story. Errant Gods, the first book in the Blood of the Isir series by Erik Henry Vick, changes all of that. Hank Jensen used to be a…
I Have a Chronic Guilt Complex
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5 Great Blogs from RDBlog Week
Last week, 31 bloggers came together to write about rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or, as some prefer, rheumatoid disease (RD to reflect the systemic nature of the beast. Every day had a different topic and every day, I’d read through the entries, in awe of the talent and passion of all who participated. Here are five…