How to live
A Full Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis
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I always wanted to have a big family I
have four kids lots of noise and
activity in the house and love and fun
it's that's what life's all about I was
expecting my third Ryan and in the
middle of that I just kept getting a lot
of pain my hands and wrists especially
when I had washed dishes wherever it
hurt it would burn the pain continued
and instead of getting better it was
just getting worse my mom kept pushing
me to go to the doctor and I said now
I'm good I just ignored it and then I
had my fourth child I still hadn't seen
someone and they're two years apart and
then finally I did I went to the doctor
and they did some blood work and that's
when they told me I had rheumatoid
arthritis it really stinks it's pain
every day and it's all throughout the
body it can be anywhere when you have it
after a while you just you do get used
to the pain but it filtrates
your whole day whether you realize it or
not the morning time is the hardest as
far as moving around because I haven't
moved yet one of the first things we do
is my kids eat toast and bagels a lot
and it's very hard to make toast because
they just can't grip the knife I can't
put the butter on I can't open the juice
pour for them and it's just not the
greatest way to start a day sometimes
writing notes for school are kind of a
hassle and you think okay how many notes
would you really have to write but I
write notes several times every week for
something or other and it's very hard to
grip the pen a lot of times so sometimes
I might have the kids even write the
note and then I'll sign it or I'll just
try to even put something at the bottom
saying sorry my handwriting is a little
bad today when I do laundry which is
several times day it's just a lot of
pulling and grabbing with my
is kind of an issue I tend to buy the
smaller bottles of laundry detergent now
because it's not worth it to buy the
bigger ones just taking it out of a
cabinet it's not even that heavy but it
really does affect me sometimes what I'm
driving that can definitely be a chore
as well I pick up the kids a lot because
they do sports and activities at school
doctors appointments there's always
somebody getting a check-up or someone
is sick and doesn't seem like it would
be much but just little things like
opening the door putting my hands around
the steering wheel there's days when my
hands can't even curl like that getting
in and out of the car even is hard
dinner time can also be one of the
hardest times of the day so I am very
unfortunate that my children like pizza
and take-out because they're just so
nice I just can't cook anything I do
it's just with you and it's it's it's
exhausting because you just it tires you
out and you just don't want to have it
anymore to other patients that have
rheumatoid arthritis hang in there it
won't be bad all the time and it's a
learn as you go process every day is
different and I try to take one day at a
time
