You look at yourself in the mirror, you may smile or you may break down and cry. You smile because you may want to see yourself as you’ve always been but you may shed tears because you know that you’re no longer that person anymore and never will be again when it comes to doing all that you once could before Rheumatoid Arthritis came into your life. That person staring back is not the person who you once were but a silhouette of that person so you find yourself grieving for the “YOU” that’s lost to a disease that haunts you and those in your life in a way that you were never in a million years prepared for. You hug yourself in an effort to reassure yourself that everything is going to be okay but in reality you know that your life is in for a tough go and it has been forever changed and will never be okay the way it use to be. How quickly did this disease snatch your old life away and set in motion grief and guilt that weighs on you because you can’t live life the way you once could and the way you want too. Where have I gone? Continue reading “RA – Rheumatoid Arthritis-Grieving For That Old You”
RA AND THE FAMILY FIT 