Parenting Teens with Rheumatoid Arthritis
This week’s HealthCentral post wonders what if it’s not you who have RA – what if it’s your kid? “When I was a teenager, I wanted nothing to do with doctors, hospitals and physical therapists. I was done with blood tests, trying medications that weren’t working and soaking my hands in paraffin wax until it…
Dear Buskerfest
It’s a small thing. It doesn’t make up for the rest of it, but it was very, very satisfying. Sincerely, Lene
Once-A-Year Day & A Contest
In the grand tradition of the shameless self-promotion that happens in this space on this day, I’m going to be All About Me and announced that today is my birthday. Well, the beginnings of – today is the actual day, but celebrations will, as usual, be stretched out over a week or so. I’m not…
Wrangling Life with RA
This week, I post about pirates at HealthCentral: “I got hijacked last week. Not by pirates with cutlasses, eye patches, bad teeth and a shoulder-perched parrot squawking obscenities. Instead, my week was hijacked by something much more bureaucratic: an agency deciding I needed to devote days to doing enough paperwork that I suspect they’ll need…
Woe, oh Woe am I. Not.
About six months ago, I finally gave in and joined the Canadian version of Netflix. I’d resisted because I tend to watch movies based on what I’m in the mood for and that’s not something you can do when you never know what’s arriving next in your mailbox. However, my local video store now has…
Good Idea in Theory
It all started with Bridget Jones’s Diary. The messing with Jane Austen, I mean. Well, I’m sure that there have been people messing with Austen before that, but if you’re looking at the most recent tendency to mess with her, Bridget started it. And did it well. It’s a fantastic book, turned into a fantastic…
And Now for Something Entirely Different
My life is requiring my extreme attention, so this is going to be short. Real short. Inspired by something Beth posted the other day, here’s a question for you: If you could have one superpower, what would it be? (for the record, I’d love to have telekinesis. Aside from the cool factor, it’d be way…
Sticking My Nose In
When thinking about my first post after my time off for alleging healing. I had two choices. I could talk about how that healing process has been going, but after almost 2 months and not nearly enough progress, it’s boring me senseless, so I can’t imagine how you’re feeling. Or I could set the cat…
A Beginners Guide to RA: Pain Management
This week, my HealthCentral post is about pain and how to manage it. How apropos. I really am trying to practice what I preach. Most of the time. “Rheumatoid arthritis is a pain in the… well, it can pretty much be a pain anywhere and everywhere. Whether you’re dealing with the intense pain of a…
A Request of the Universe
You know how when you stub your toe, somehow it becomes a magnet for impact? You haven’t stubbed it for a couple years, but the moment you do, furniture starts leaping out at you and despite not having dropped anything in weeks, now you drop an apple and it lands on your toe and when…
Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Updated November 21, 2021 I’ve been looking for a book to get lost in. The kind of book that sweeps you up, brings you on an adventure and leaves you satisfied, yet sad that it’s over. I’ve tried a bunch and they haven’t been bad, some have even been very good, but there has been…