Rhonda

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You said you have been cutting your working hours down because you get too

tired to work many hours and do not want to get AFO's yet. I think your work

would be much easier on you if you had AFO's. I get up in the morning and

can hardly walk. When I put the braces on, I feel " born again " and feel like

I have engergy.

In the summer put on knee socks, then the braces, then turn down the the

top of the knee sock over the top of the braces. I saw a woman do this at

Dr. Shy's clinic at Harper Hospital in Detroit. She really looked " neat "

She was wearing white socks and white shorts. This would be good for men,

too.

Ann

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Hi Rhonda, Good to here from you again. I read your letter and all I could say was WOW! Your neice at age 2!!! There really isnt anyone in my family with RA. My grandma says she thinks thats what my uncle suffered with but he never did get diagnosed, he commited suicide when he was 27. I worry so much about my kids. My son being 12 complains about any ache or pain and I cringe, but I think its just him trying to get out of doing things. My daughter 6 will tell me sometimes that she cant do some things because her hands hurt. I think she just gets that from hearing me. I try to explain to her why my hands hurt and why I take medicine so much. Hopefully some day she will understand but not by going through it. She's been with me to my remicade treatments ( she is our entertainment LOL ). I wanted more kids but there is NO way I could do it again. I just found out my

sister is pregnant (9 weeks) so I will enjoy holding my niece or nephew and then give him or her back and go home and rest and enjoy LOL. I'm looking forward to that. There are times that I think its not fair to my kids that I have RA. I dont feel sorry for me I feel for them. Well I better get done typing now before my hands start to really hurt. Take Care Talk to you again soon. Hugs Neighbor Rhonda <unclebad@...> wrote: Hi , It's Rhonda sorry I haven't got back to you sooner. I went to my parents for a couple of days. My mom has demintia and I go there weekly to help my dad out with her. My husband and I don't have any children wish we did but I went to UOM aprox. 11 yrs ago and the dr there suggested I didn't have any because of my RA and it runs in my family. I got it at age 21 or 22 (am now 47) my dad at age 28 mom after menophase, and my neice got it at age 2 (now 12). I REALLY wish we had children! We both wanted to adopt but never did. I wanted a child age 3 -16 and my husband wanted an infant. Well I knew that I would have a really hard time with changing and all that comes with an infant, because there were to many days I could hardley take

care of myself. So we never did adopt. At least we have neices and nephews. Thank God for them! I don't work now I did work in a pharmacy for along time but I was very hard on my hands and my feet! I left work in 1998. My RA was really bad before I left work for good. It got to the point I was crying at work my feet felt like they were on FIRE I was on them all day, and my hands were so sore from opening and closing RX bottles. I would come home and couldn't even walk anymore my feet hurt so darn bad! Oh enough of that you know what it's like. I am just glad it under control for the most part now! Well lets talk soon! Hope all is well with you neighbor. Rhonda

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