Hi, I'm new & I didn't know where else to go.

June 28, 2002

Hi. My name is , I'm 26 and I don't have RA, my mother does. She was

diagnosed a few years ago and I know very little about the disease. What I do

know is that my mother doesn't take care of herself. She'll go to her

rhumatologist when she feels like it, which isn't often enough in my opinion.

When she first started going to him he told her she had one of the worst

cases of RA that he's seen in all of his years of practice. I know she was on

methtrixate for a while but they had to take her off because it was doing

more harm than good. She has a few other things besides RA, I'm not sure what

they all are though. She'll be 45 this year. She's had more than 5 broken

bones in the last six months, I'm not sure if it's RA related or not. She'll

have flare ups and get pissy and refuse to take her steroids because she

doesn't like the side effects. You know what? I really don't care if she

gains a few pounds or feels queasy, I'd rather see her out of bed. This is

the thing that has driven me to the point of pissed offness, she's been

having a lot of trouble with her legs, as in they're barely functioning at

this point, you'd think she'd call her doctor, YEAH RIGHT! She's been without

complete use of her left leg for a few days now, she's just been dragging it

around behind her. I don't know what to do with her anymore. She whines and

cries about eventually ending up in a wheelchair, why should I listen

anymore? She doesn't do anything to help herself. I have a daughter who is

almost 2 and a son on the way, they need their grandmother. I'm at wits end

and I don't know what to do anymore. Forgive my spelling, I'm not up on the

terms and thanks for listening.

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