This was a great read ! I could relate to it well. I have had Rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years , it has done great damage. I also have four other forms of arthritis and a birth injury to my right arm. Learning to cope with pain is hard enough but deformitiy was worse. I thought my life was over the pain is so bad on most days. I always had a passion for baking and gourmet foods. I really did not want to give it up due to pain. So over the past several years I developed ways to complete my kitchen tasks using other parts of my body. I got so good at it I wrote a self help cookbook that was released Nation wide this past Sept. Its called A Complete Illustrated guide to cooking with arthritis. By writing the book and a publisher picking it up it made me relize that anything is possible. I still have daily pain and of course deformity but at least now I feel like I helped others by having this aweful disease.
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This was a great read ! I could relate to it well. I have had Rheumatoid arthritis for over 25 years , it has done great damage. I also have four other forms of arthritis and a birth injury to my right arm. Learning to cope with pain is hard enough but deformitiy was worse. I thought my life was over the pain is so bad on most days. I always had a passion for baking and gourmet foods. I really did not want to give it up due to pain. So over the past several years I developed ways to complete my kitchen tasks using other parts of my body. I got so good at it I wrote a self help cookbook that was released Nation wide this past Sept. Its called A Complete Illustrated guide to cooking with arthritis. By writing the book and a publisher picking it up it made me relize that anything is possible. I still have daily pain and of course deformity but at least now I feel like I helped others by having this aweful disease.
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