By CreakyStaff
“Psoriatic arthritis is a lot like rheumatoid arthritis but with a nasty skin rash.” This probably sounds terrible but I was secretly happy when I heard Phil Mickelson the golfer was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. Not that I would wish...
By CreakyStaff
It’s said psoriatic arthritis can be a tricky to diagnose—tell me about it 🙂 I was 25 years old when I first started experiencing the symptoms of arthritis, and it took another 25 years before I was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis—so...
By CreakyStaff
One afternoon while I was at the office entering all of my notes for the day on my computer, I noticed that my eyes felt scratchy and tired. I’m a retired nurse and I worked one day a week for...
By CreakyStaff
Someone told me recently that rheumatoid arthritis is NOT a serious disease anymore. Her logic? Because people rarely wind up in wheelchairs anymore. Oh. My. God. Excellent reasoning. Sorry, I missed that pertinent point – my joints have been hurting...
By CreakyStaff
Hello everyone! I’m back, and I’m officially a husband! Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes and congratulations. For those who have been asking, you can view some of the amateur photos over at my Facebook fan page, http://www.facebook.com/danielpmalito...
By CreakyStaff
I’ve been asked over the years what it was like to stop suddenly stop working. I’d always been told that I’d know when it was time for me to stop working, stay home and deal with rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis,...
By CreakyStaff
had my first cigarette at seven years old hidden behind a garden shed sucking crudely on a brown cigarillo my friend Paolo had nicked from his dad. As we passed the increasingly soggy-ended stogie back and forth, suppressing fits of...
By CreakyStaff
Christmas Eve, 2014, I quietly celebrated an anniversary. It isn’t one I talk about much, and you can’t buy a card for it. 20 years ago on Christmas Eve there was a 50/50 chance I wouldn’t live through the day....
By CreakyStaff
Shoulder pain was my portal into the hellish world of RA. At first, just a wincing pain one morning that I ascribed to holding my arm at a strange angle for my first tattoo the prior evening, or perhaps an echo...
By CreakyStaff
From time to time people have expectations of me that are totally unrealistic. Usually it’s from a healthy friend or acquaintance, who has no idea of the limitations that rheumatoid arthritis puts on my life. They see me for a...
By CreakyStaff
Dear Ms. Meniscus, I’m a woman in her seventies with RA. I had a hard time financially lately and my son invited me to move in with him and his wife. I thought his wife liked me but whenever my...
By CreakyStaff
Nothing is more entertaining than a good wipe-out in front of all of your friends. Especially when you land face first in the water of a pool. I must have pivoted wrong and, in the process of tripping, I twisted...
