Progress in RA: A Decade of Hope
The annual review post. Yeah, I went there: “The new millennium started with the scare of Y2K – remember that? Everyone was convinced the sky would fall the minute the clock ticked over at New Year’s, but thankfully nothing happened. For people living with RA, the new millennium didn’t look much different, but the seeds…
Do You Lose When You Gain?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about learning to protect myself. About finally getting it. Finally acting in accordance with my alleged intelligence and bowing out of the celebrations for International Day for People with Disabilities because if I didn’t, there was a significant risk that I would lose several months of my life…
In the News
There’s a reason I don’t pay too much attention to the news beyond scanning the headlines on a couple of articles a couple of times a day – wait, that actually sort of sounds as if I do pay attention to the news, but nevermind, the reason it doesn’t go much beyond that is that…
Larger Than Life
Those of you who – breathlessly? – follow the ramblings that I call my tweets – know that I spent last weekend doing two things: working and watching Lawrence of Arabia. I found out that I tried watching it once before and that I’d only made it about 41 min. in before abandoning the effort….
Just Sayin’
Dear Throng of Able-Bodied People Emerging from the Elevator like a Herd of Sardines Escaping from a Tightly Packed Barrel, I have no problems with you using the elevators, really I don’t. Especially parents of children in strollers, but the rest of you who feel compelled to use an elevator despite the close proximity of…
A Linguistic Discovery
When I lived in Denmark, I was a sort of linguistic chameleon. By which I mean that I had a habit of picking up the regional accent of whatever person I was speaking to. Saying it was a habit makes it sound as if it was on purpose. It wasn’t, just happened – I’d start…
Personal Growth
A week ago, something happened in my shoulder. I still haven’t been able to pinpoint the exact time or act that caused the calamity, but the end result was a majorly crapped out shoulder, neck and arm. Complete with buzzing in certain fingers, jolts of sharp pain in my thumb and a seized-up neck, shoulder…
10 Things to Do for 2011 and Beyond
The annual planning for the future has started on MyRACentral: “December of any year is traditionally the time where media of all kinds focus on what has happened in the past 12 months and if you read my Month Ahead post, you know that’s coming. However, just to mess with tradition, I’m starting my posts…
International Day Celebrations
On Friday, I will be here (click to embiggen) Why don’t you join us? More information here.
The Worst of Times and the Best of Times
For as long as I can remember, I have been the worst case scenario. When I was growing up, there weren’t a lot of options in terms of treating RA or JRA (now called Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis). And when I say there weren’t a lot of options, I mean there really wasn’t more than one,…
Ransom November
My semiannual three-month obsession ended this week when Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough one the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars. Last week, there was a huge controversy when Brandy got voted off instead of Bristol Palin. And sure, Brandy was a much better dancer than Bristol, but aside from the audience probably relating…