Cause: Arthritis

You have no idea how much you can handle until it all falls on you in one moment, or repeats over several years. My name is Lisa, and before everything happened, I thought I was a happily married mom of three sons. One was a tween, and two were teens. …

Despite being dealt a hand of lupus, ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis, I don’t see myself as a victim. Nor am I a winner or loser. I’m a warrior and survivor. I fight every day. I struggle and push myself to the very end of the fringe to accomplish things …

Most of y’all know or have read about my journey with type 1 diabetes. Now I’ll tell you how my immune system screwed me over again with rheumatoid arthritis. In 2014, I started to have sharp pains in my wrists, finger joints, toe joints and elbows. Not even plain ibuprofen …

I’m not quite sure where to begin really. I’m a mom of two teenagers and an eight-year-old. When I had my children, that was the most thrilling time in my life. I thought for the longest time that I was pretty much used to frequent hospital stays, tests, doctors’ faces, …

I was first diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) ten years ago. As the years passed I was also told I had lupus, then Sjögren’s syndrome, then neuropathy raynaud’s, and a few others. Then was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma. It seems that every time I was attending the hospital I was …

My name is Emily, I’m 23 years old. 🙂 I was first diagnosed with RA when I was just two years old. The only memory early on that I have is that I HATED doctors, so my story is mainly about my life with RA from school age on. School …

My name is Sabina and I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was 12, almost 13 years old. It has been about 17 years now. My journey has been very interesting, funny, full of life, painful sometimes (okay very often), and very eventful. It would be nice if I …

My name is Stephanie, it took me almost three years to figure out that I had RA. I had such a struggle with doctors. I had several rounds of blood work. One rheumatolgist told me that I didn’t have RA. I got lucky and found a doctor who was patient …

My name is Barbara Tullous. I was diagnosed three years ago with degenerative hip disease. I also have bad knees. It’s starting to look like I may also have RA. I work at a psyche hospital 40 hours a week with teenage girls. Sometimes I float to the adult unit …

I am a mom, a wife, and I Fight Like a Girl! I was born with a congenital birth defect and spina bifida in 1962. The doctors told my mom to give me up and have another child. Fortunately, my mom would have nothing to do with that! I finally …