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Hey Everyone,
I'm hosting the next edition of Duncan Cross's Patients for a Moment Blog Carnival on April 7th! The topic/question to consider for this round is disclosure: if to tell, who to tell, what to tell, how to tell, or any interpretation you come up with.
Submissions should be emailed me to by midnight this Sunday, April 4th to singlegalra@gmail.com.
I look forward to reading your submissions!!
Sara
The latest Patients for a Moment blog carnival is up at Wellbook.org, and is all about adapting to an illness. There are lots of different perspectives and takes on this question, including my article about my recent trip to Egypt and Jordan. For me, traveling was not something I could imagine giving up and still being myself, so I've learned how to make some changes along the way to make sure I can still do it.
Read it all here.
I'll be hosting the next edition of PFAM, so keep a look out for more info soon if you are interested in contributing!
I did it....I finally dropped the RA bomb on a date. Read it and weep here.
Often in my writing, I use humor to deal with the twists and turns that RA inevitably brings in life. I also try to keep a positive outlook on my blog because even with RA, life goes on, and I try to make the best of it.
But, let's face it, even if you are managing your disease as well as you possibly can, it still sucks, and many of us don't respond well, or at all, to the meds that are out there, leaving us to whims and ravages of rheumatoid arthritis.
Just as it is important to show the positive, it's equally important to acknowledge the negative and the impact being sick has on all of us. Fellow RA blogger Lene Anderson and everyone at HealthCentral, including MyRACentral, are doing just that during the month of March. As Lene writes in her introduction at MyRACentral: '(We) are going to explore death and dying, sometimes as it applies to specific illnesses and conditions and sometimes, thoughts on dying and mourning in other ways. We are going to be talking about the issues the healthy prefer to hide, the thoughts we can often only share with other people who know, who've been there, we're going to name it, talk about the elephant in the room and where you go when it gets dark.'
Head over to MyRACentral to read Lene's article, as well as articles by Lisa Emrich and myself examining death, dying and mourning, and join in the conversation.
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