Thank you!!!

[Guest guest]

Nina,

Thank you for all your support and understanding. I just feel so much

better just knowing I am not alone. My oldest son has taken on more

jobs than I had planned but I just couldn't use my hands sometimes.

He is a great help and there are some days I don't know what I would

do without him. He is starting Kindergarten in the fall and I just

can't believe that he is growing up so fast. My mother-n-law has RA

too but she is in a totally different state than I am in. She said

that I am teaching my boys compassion and they will be better for it.

I haven't gotten to that way of thinking yet. She thinks she is a

better person for having the disease and right now I can't think of

anything good about this disease. Maybe someday!!!

Thanks again,

Ida

--- In , " Nina Lehman " <AdAstra45@a...>

wrote:

> Welcome, Ida. {{{gentle granny hugs}}} RA is big and scary and ugly

no

> matter how long you have it. Mine has been strangely quiet lately,

> which worries me more - when is it going to pounce? How bad will it

be

> when it does? GB you, having two small ones to raise while coping

with

> RA. My kids were 11 and 12 when my RA came along. The timing was

> awful, I wasn't there to keep them out of trouble during their teen

> years. But, amazingly enough, they both survived, learned from their

> mistakes and are now productive members of society. So hold onto all

> the hope you can. And don't be afraid to ask for help.

>

> Nina in Tucson