Confessions – 2004

Diagnosis of RA

In October 2004, I was having a hard time cleaning houses and felt so sad and tired all the time.  Tony and I did a lot of arguing.  He couldn’t understand what was going on with me, why all of a sudden I was so cranky and tired all the time.  I went to the doctor, for what I thought was the flu, but left there with a diagnosis of Arthritis. 

In the beginning I was told it was Osteoarthritis, but the blood tests showed it was actually Rheumatoid Arthritis.  I couldn’t believe it!  I spent weeks and weeks researching the disease, reading everything I could find on it.  I was getting more and more depressed.  The more depressed I got, the more I hurt and the worse I felt.

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