There is an ongoing battle for understanding about Rheumatoid Arthritis and what it really is and what it mean to those of us that have it. By definition it is described as an auto immune disease that causes pain, stiffness, swelling and loss of function to joints. Um, but those symptoms sound like regular arthritis or osteoarthritis. Well the key difference here is “auto immune disease”. Continue reading “RA – Rheumatoid Arthritis A Disease Simply Not Understood By So Many – Why”
Look at my face
Can you see my heart race
As the tears began to flow
For the many things you just don’t know.
Look at my face
Do you see the pain there
Stand by me, take your place
Show me you’re with me and you care.
Look at my faceÂ
Does it show I’m so tired and worn
That I’m really sorry, I know you may need your space
That’s why I am so bitterly torn.
Look at my face
I have a disease I truly hate
One that is always up for constant debate
One that is my destiny, my life, my fate.
Look at face
I’m searching for a kind word
And a little understanding and truth that needs to be heard
If this were so, our reality wouldn’t be so blurred.
Look at my face
Can you see the uncertainty in my life
Though I’m trying day after day to handle this strife.
No matter what I do, I can’t get away from this hateful space.
Look at face
You see I just cannot give in
To this hard and bitter race
Because, as hard as it gets, I can’t let Rheumatoid Arthritis win!
Be Blessed.
Rheumatoid Arthritis, our chronic and complicated disease. With it comes pain that we feel each and every day. Pain that fights us as vigorously as we fight it. Still explaining just how much this causes us seem to go unaccepted and misunderstood by so many causing us to fall into a pit of ISOLATION. Do you find yourself saying “I feel so alone in this fight” and you have no where or no one to turn to. This is what so many sufferers of RA have to face, the isolation that comes with having this dreaded disease. Continue reading “Rheumatoid Arthritis-The Isolation We Face”
Hearing those painful words with fear and sadness came with hearing “You Have Rheumatoid Arthritis”. These two words would change our lives forever but we just did not know how much. Words that had more power than we thought at the time possible But this was just the beginning of our of saga with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Continue reading “Rheumatoid Arthritis-Our Incurable Disease”
Rheumatoid Arthritis takes us through a myriad of changes that are physical and mental. We never know from one day to the next what to expect being a sufferer of this disease because any single day may never be the same and the other. Having it makes us vulnerable to the devastation it causes and we know we have to suffer through whatever it throws at us.  This realization brings tears that many may never, ever see because for many of us our tears are shed in secret. When our tears are seen, there are those who question Why!
When I cry, I wish I could go back to life before Rheumatoid Arthritis
When I cry, I long for what I can no longer do
When I cry, I feel the pain in my body and my mind
When I cry, I feel I’ve lost myself to Rheumatoid Arthritis
When I cry, I want others to Understand the burden I bear
When I cry, It’s because it is all that I can do
When I cry, I’m so emotionally broken
When I cry, I want others to understand why I cry
When I cry, I need loving arms to hold me
When I cry, I want this disease to be UNDERSTOODÂ
When I cry, IT’S NOT ALWAYS FOR MYSELF!!
Through the emotional turmoil we face and the tears that come, we have to accept the reality that our lives are forever changed. Â We see how we truly are and what this disease has done and can do to us. Â We cry for hope, understanding, love and comfort. This is Why We Cry.
Be Blessed.
RA AND THE FAMILY FIT 