RA Diabetes

Note:  I may receive compensation for writing this or a similar blog; however, In this case I have not received payment beyond the poles I am giving away.  When I say I purchased,  no compensa...

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I look at my insulin pump no less than 100 times each day. But no matter how many times I look at it, I still think of my moth % er. I think about the life-changing clinical trial she participate...

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  I hate the question. It comes to me in different forms these days, and I bristle each time I hear it. The question refers to what kind of arthritis or diabetes I have. Do I have the bad kind? ...

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I have a sticky button. I have lots of sticky buttons in my life. Of course, because of RA, I also have fat fingers. The problem is that I need my sticky buttons to work well. The button that b...

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I have to admit that I rarely feel whole. I know my body is physically whole; in fact, I am in better health today than I was twenty years ago. In the past ten years, I lost 160 pounds, and I ha...

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Did you know that there are over 50 open investigations into the causes, history, treatment, and progression of ankylosing spondylitis?  Here is more good news: many of these studies are seeking...

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  Sheryl (my wife) and I  met with the surgeon, and we have decided to move ahead with the surgery to correct the kyphosis that I have previously written about. The facts of the situation are ...

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Kyphosis is the unnatural bend of a persons spine. In this article I describe it and tell the steps Sheryl and I have decided to pursue in order to correct the problem. The post Kyphosis and My...

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  Today is Day three of RDBlog week. The annual time when those of us who blog in the Rheumatic Diseases space blog about our condition.  Today’s prompt is: Everything else – Is there somet...

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Today is Day four of RDBlog week. The annual time when those of us who blog in the Rheumatic Diseases space blog about our condition.  Today’s prompt is: Community – Our community is often h...

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