Re: Thank you Everyone - to Ardeith

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Hi, thank you for sharing your experience with me. All of your input

helps me to better understand what is happening to me. Finally,

people who know what I am talking about. It is so difficult to say to

someone, I just can't go shopping today, I am really hurting. They

look at me like that dog hearing his masters voice in the old victrola

(I think it was a logo for RCA) anyway...one day maybe I will get

through to them, or they will no longer be in my life. Really, that

is where I am headed. I only want compassionate, understanding

individuals around me now. Maybe that is what this condition is

teaching me.

It is really not very well understood by those who haven't

> experienced

> it, is it.

>

> Ardeith writes: I watched my mother struggle with RA from the time

I was

> about ten years old. She was one of those people who wasn't going

to admit

> she could not do something, and she did her joints a lot of

damage......back

> in the 50's and 60's when the medications were much less helpful.

She wept

> when I was diagnosed in '72. Then sat me down and told me what she had

> learned the hard way..... which was a big help to me as I didn't have to

> repeat her mistakes.....

> Ardy

>