Don't Judge Me for My Good Days: Psoriatic-arthritis.com

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  (This was posted Feb 16, 2024 - but I thought it was such a great topic that I wanted to repost it.) Please don't judge me based on my good days. Looks can be deceiving for someone with a chronic illness. What looks like a good day might actually be a good day. Or it might be a good few hours. Or it could be someone doing their best to function through the pain. You don't honestly know what someone is going through, especially when they have lived with the pain for a long time. You'd be surprised how much pain people can learn to smile through. Read the full article at psoriatic-arthritis.com
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Young, Rebelious Arthritis

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I've been busy for the past few days, and I'm finally getting to sit down and relax for a while. I put in twelve hour days quite often. Whether this is due to the fact I am young or that I'm simply busy, I know not. But what I do know is that I am young. And I do "young things." Granted, my joints don't really know that. But my brain does. And Arthur fights me the whole time I do things I like! It doesn't stop me at all.

Nope. I go to concerts and dance the night away (if you want to know what that's like, check out a recent post 'Arthritis Dance'). I see theatre productions, despite the hours of inactivity. I go to parties. I shop for hours on end. I take long day trips. I do tons of things that make Arthur kick and scream and cry and beg me to go home. And I don't give in. Perhaps that's the young rebellious part of me?

I think so, because I'm good to my parents and listen to my professors. Obviously I had to ignore someone. :)

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  1. AriannaMarch 30, 2013 at 5:18 PM

    I have to admit I give in to the pain a lot of times. My life is so boring now, just going out one day a week to do some shopping or go to a doctor's appointment exhausts me.

    But I do occasionally push through the pain to do something fun, like to see a movie or take a walk. You have to choose when to ignore the pain and when to listen to it, I think!

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    1. ElizabethMarch 30, 2013 at 5:25 PM

      I give into it a lot too. There are days in a row I don't leave my home.

      It's true that you have to choose when to listen to it and when to ignore it: it's never worth pushing yourself so much you get sick or hurt.

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