[null, null, {"document_url": "http://rawarrior.blogspot.com/2009/08/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid.html", "unformatted_src": "//3.bp.blogspot.com/--DcEJ2Oi54k/Vlvy1LqVg6I/AAAAAAAAAjM/R9m2L_lTg6M/s80/Kelly-15a.jpg", "src": "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--DcEJ2Oi54k/Vlvy1LqVg6I/AAAAAAAAAjM/R9m2L_lTg6M/s80/Kelly-15a.jpg", "formatted_filename": "Kelly a", "alt_text": "My photo", "rendered_width": 69, "rendered_height": 80}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://rawarrior.blogspot.com/2009/08/womans-day-reply-to-rheumatoid.html", "unformatted_src": "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHX72gXQc5w/SpfkB4SfMDI/AAAAAAAAAVA/DvZ1FOekuAo/s400/womans+day+renew.jpg", "src": "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHX72gXQc5w/SpfkB4SfMDI/AAAAAAAAAVA/DvZ1FOekuAo/s400/womans+day+renew.jpg", "formatted_filename": "womans day renew"}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null]

"We win some, we lose some"
I get that. You're right Kelly, we do fight two front war.

Not only do I deal with RA everyday, but when people "discover" that I am on disability I feel like I have to explain myself, because I don't LOOK sick. Only once in awhile people actually get it, others don't. I've had to let go of what the others may think about me, or I would go insane!!


August 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM 
I think the folks at WD are sounding a little defensive. Seems like you hit a nerve there. Good! Let's keep at it!

August 28, 2009 at 12:59 PM Julie Lydell said...

It is also amazing Kel that you are able to fit so much information into such a teeny weeny little space. Info that, in my humble opinion, goes above and beyond a "basic primer"! I knew nothing about RA before i started reading your blog and now i feel like i might be able to help another non-RAer understand more clearly the real RA! Thanks Pal for your insight and humor! BTW is the chicken/feather thing sort of like the bug/windshield analogy? LOL!

August 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM 
WOW! If they have misrepresented RA this badly, can you believe anything else that they publish?

August 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM 
It is with great sadness that I now realize that everyone at WD has rose colored glasses on. How truly pathetic that they will not research deeper into their own articles, blurbs, tidbits, etc. I know of several million people that may no longer buy, read, or trust this so called magazine. Makes all of us want to and need to work all the harder to get the truth out and take the rose colored glasses off the nation, nay, the world. OK, my rant is finished, for the moment!!!!

August 29, 2009 at 4:24 AM