Comments on: Living in My World with People Who Don’t have Rheumatoid Arthritis http://www.anaudlife.com/living-in-my-world-with-people-who-don%e2%80%99t-have-rheumatoid-arthritis/ My Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis Fri, 18 May 2012 10:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Botlhale http://www.anaudlife.com/living-in-my-world-with-people-who-don%e2%80%99t-have-rheumatoid-arthritis/#comment-284 Botlhale Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:29 +0000 http://www.anaudlife.com/?p=224#comment-284 Hi I was diagnosed with RA two and a half months ago. Initially, with the medication working pretty well, I thought the tough part of this illness was taking the pills.... I know, it sounds funny right! Putting the pain aside, my biggest challenge right now is getting my colleagues to be more sensitive and aware of what I am going through. How have you managed in this regard? I am tired of the "Ooh my grandmother has that" or " just be positive, don't let it keep you in bed" and "does that mean you are not coming in to work today?" Hi

I was diagnosed with RA two and a half months ago. Initially, with the medication working pretty well, I thought the tough part of this illness was taking the pills…. I know, it sounds funny right!

Putting the pain aside, my biggest challenge right now is getting my colleagues to be more sensitive and aware of what I am going through. How have you managed in this regard?

I am tired of the “Ooh my grandmother has that” or ” just be positive, don’t let it keep you in bed” and “does that mean you are not coming in to work today?”

]]> By: Stephen http://www.anaudlife.com/living-in-my-world-with-people-who-don%e2%80%99t-have-rheumatoid-arthritis/#comment-211 Stephen Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:42:31 +0000 http://www.anaudlife.com/?p=224#comment-211 Sorry about the above ramble, guess I'm still bothered by it. Sorry about the above ramble, guess I’m still bothered by it.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.anaudlife.com/living-in-my-world-with-people-who-don%e2%80%99t-have-rheumatoid-arthritis/#comment-210 Stephen Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:40:17 +0000 http://www.anaudlife.com/?p=224#comment-210 I knew a person once that had RA when I did not. Looking from the outside in was hard to imagine what they were going through. One thing that I thought I knew was that this person was very angry, not about RA (well that to), but life in general. I started talking about life. I thought that life was a learning centre where we come to learn lessons so that we can better understand the plights of others. I mentioned way back then about anger and stress and how I thought that these things contribute to some of these diseases that we can be inflickted with. I also mentioned God and love. God and love was the last straw for this person, she flew right off the handle saying "There is no #456789 God and how dare I talk this way". She has never spoken to me since. I guess I mention this because I did not have a clue as to what was going on with her. To this day I wish that I would have tackled things differently. I am now in a position of understanding both sides of the fence and my own views still stand firm. We cannot expect others to understand what it is like to have RA. We have to except and move on, this is our lesson while others have thier own lessons to learn. Peace to you all. I knew a person once that had RA when I did not.
Looking from the outside in was hard to imagine what they were going through.

One thing that I thought I knew was that this person was very angry, not
about RA (well that to), but life in general.
I started talking about life. I thought that life was a learning
centre where we come to learn lessons so that we can better understand the plights of others.

I mentioned way back then about anger and stress and how I thought that these things contribute to some of these diseases that we can be inflickted with.

I also mentioned God and love.
God and love was the last straw for this person, she flew right off the handle
saying “There is no #456789 God and how dare I talk this way”.

She has never spoken to me since.

I guess I mention this because I did not have a clue as to what was going on with her.
To this day I wish that I would have tackled things differently.

I am now in a position of understanding both sides of the fence and my own views still stand firm.
We cannot expect others to understand what it is like to have RA.
We have to except and move on, this is our lesson while others have thier own lessons to learn.

Peace to you all.

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