The Single Gal's Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis

Comic Strip #34: Spring Fever

I am a warm-weather girl. I was born and raised at the beach, and in the sun is where I prefer to be (wearing sunscreen and a hat, of course).  I was also raised in the South where the inevitable humid days can be sweltering and even a little miserable.  Nonetheless, I much prefer the misery of being hot to the misery of being cold and will take a hot, humid day over a cold, bone-chilling one any day of the week.  There is only circumstance where my love of all things hot stops short: fevers.

Read the rest of my latest article at MyRACentral.com and check out the comic strip by Jane Samborski here!

Comic Strip #33: Spring Into Yoga

Check out my latest post at MyRACentral.com for some tips on a few of my favorite yoga poses. It's the perfect way to step into Spring.

 

Patients for a Moment: Disclosure

To tell, or not to tell?  When it comes to a chronic or serious health issue, that is one sticky question. And if you do decide to tell, what happens next?

For this edition of Patients for a Moment, I asked contributors to contemplate just that, and got an array of thoughtful responses, reactions and reflections on the subject.

Lisa Emrich digs right in at Brass and Ivory with a take on the topic that strikes a personal note with me - as a blogger, do you disclose your real identity or not? What are the pros and cons?  Check out the full article: Disclosure: Patients, PR and Participation.

Kirsten ponders disclosing her rheumatoid arthritis from both a personal and professional perspective in her post at Not Standing Still's Disease.

At Getting Closer to Myself, Leslie recounts an honest and inspiring 'reveal' to the new person in her life in Breaking My Own Rules: The Doctor is in the House. 

Vlad from the Wellbook Blog discusses his approach and the reasoning behind it in Too Much Information.

How do you tell your parents you have cancer...after the fact?  Kairol Rosenthal at Everything Changes responds to this very question from a reader in Hiding Cancer from your Parents?

Sandra asks us to consider 'what's at stake' in her post, Shout it Out at Healing Environmental Illnesses.

At Novel Patient, Lauren writes about what happens when her illness goes from being invisible to obvious, and how that does or doesn't impact who and how much she talks about her illnesses in Full Disclosure. 

In Disclosure, (not quite) One Year Later, Helen from Pens and Needles reflects on her feelings about disclosure now vs. then and lays out what she's learned to make it go more smoothly. 

Thanks to everyone who contributed this round!I hope you will get as much out of the posts from this edition as I have.  Many of them strike a very personal note for me, and this topic is one that I find myself thinking about often, especially now that I am in a new city meeting lots of new people.

Stay tuned for the next edition of Patients for a Moment, which will be hosted by Amanda from This Crazy Miracle Called Life.