Mama Mia – Here We Go Again!

Yes, I'm having another flare. The last one ran from the end of January to mid-March, and started systemic, finally settling, as they always do, in my knees (mostly left). I ended up with steroids the day before my birthday - lovely ... but they worked. This one started about a week ago - out …

Things were going so well …

Obviously the past tense gives away the 'but' that comes next! Last Friday hubby and I decided to go for a little walk in one of the local villages. The weather was pretty horrid but I felt very virtuous going out anyway, fully suited and booted for the weather. Unfortunately the boots were what caused …

An ‘interesting’ 55th birthday!

Well, it's been over two years since I had a serious flare, which is why I've pretty much abandoned this blog, and I don't suppose anyone is now reading it, but it's a useful diary for me to look back on, so I'll update it! That all changed about three weeks ago, when the minimal …

Vaccine

Well, I've had my vaccine. Hurrah! As usual the surgery messed up. A few weeks ago, realising that they might phone me to try to sort the vaccine out, I thought 'Gosh, I rarely answer the home phone - better make sure they use my mobile' so I filled in their online form to update …

Another flare, another existential crisis…

OK, I'm exaggerating. The flare is real, the existential crisis not so much, but I am wondering whether to continue this blog, as all I do these days is post occasionally to say, 'Hi guys I'm flaring' and then not post for months because I have nothing to say about RA, thanks to being pretty …

RA Awareness Week

Next week is RA Awareness Week in the UK and the busy bees at the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society have created a series of wellbeing sessions under the banner #ourmindsRApriority - I do like RApriority ... 🙂 You can sign up for free sessions here. I'm feeling pretty lucky at the moment - I'm OK …

Flare finally over – woohoo!

Since I started the steroids a couple of weeks ago, I've been ticking of little milestones: today I can bend the leg a bit, today I managed to walk round the garden ... and bigger ones, today I stopped using my stick, today I made it onto my favorite local footpath ... but today's milestone …

Here comes the cavalry

Well, if you read this blog much you’ll have an idea I’ve been flaring, semi-flaring, recovering from flares and going into new flares, for a wee while now. (Or not - 'cause I realise I've failed to actually post about most of it!) I was quite shocked to find, when I did a little history, …

This is what I have to put up with

There's just one problem with the top notice on the side door of my GP surgery, below: Did you guess? No, I wasn't picking up on anything grammatical - although  I could... This door IS the different entrance you'll be using. I think they meant to stick the notice on the main door instead. <Insert …

Shielding letter: Part 2

This is that rare thing, Pollyanna Penguin trying to stay calm, measured and reasonable, and not 'fly off the handle' at the GP, since I don't particularly want to get thrown off the practice register. (Although if the practice up the road with the much better reputation would take me, that would be a blessing …