Blog Articles About Awareness

Show Us What Your Hands Can Do!

A Show Us Your Hands! Photo Campaign Building hope, one hand at a time #showusyourhands Help Show Us Your Hands! inspire and unite the inflammatory arthritis community and qualify to win a copy of Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Tools for Managing Treatment, Side Effects and Pain by Lene Andersen! We need your help! At…

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May-hem

I have a love-hate relationship with May.  May is the month when the world comes back to life, when it’s 99% sure it won’t snow again for months, when grey and brown makes room for shades of green and when it finally and at last becomes warm enough to take off my socks and set…

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Brave New World of Awareness

A few weeks ago, I received an email from Kelly suggesting people in the RA community write blog posts on what rheumatoid awareness means to them, just in time for the February 2 Rheumatoid Awareness Day. More specifically, she asked “what difference do you think it would make if Rheumatoid Disease were recognized for what…

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Arthritis and Employment: Fit for Work

[1] The Arthritis Society, “high impact of arthritis in the workplace draws focus during arthritis awareness month.” Toronto, September 3, 2013  [2] Ibid

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Will you help me raise $500?

I often look at my copy of Our Hands Can! and every time, it makes me smile and feel stronger. Every time I see the Show Us Your Hands! community poster in my rheumatologist’s office, it makes me smile and feel part of a community. I want more people to have a chance to feel…

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Arthritis and Employment: Making It Work

September is Arthritis Awareness Month in Canada. As part of this, I’m doing a series of posts about initiatives by different organizations. The common theme of these will be dealing with the topic of working when you live with arthritis.  The Arthritis Research Center of Canada is a very cool nonprofit organization. For one, they’re…

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Rated PG for Nudity: Diving Deeper Into My Story

Updated September 26. 2024 I’ve been thinking a lot about getting naked lately. Not the regular kind of unclothed – sorry to anyone who’d started drooling and to those of you who covered your eyes, you can read on without trepidation. I’m talking about the kind of naked that shows the real you – or…

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