Pam Spaulding

I'm grateful for the medications I take for rheumatoid arthritis that allow me to continue to work and be productive -- and in manageabl...

Post-pedi tootsies are happy! Today was a real treat for the terrible neuropathy in my feet and from the knees down -- a spa pedicure. I...

The reality of the need to rely on voice recognition software is setting in. My hands and wrists are going south fast from rheumatoid arthri...

I CAN SEE! I picked up my new glasses today. No big style change for me, as you see. These glasses are plain, black geek frames, a little ...

Sick day today; my first full-blown RA flare up in months since I switched to Orencia as my biologic vs. Enbrel. I haven't taken an actu...

Last week I officially acknowledged what I can no longer do -- my current job. It was announced in my org that I was stepping down from my ...

Saw eye doc yesterday. Terribly necessary because I cannot see anything in focus in any field of my progressive bifocals at this point; thin...

What a wonderful surprise! Nine years of online activism and one award that I never expected to receive is a sexual freedom award. Does th...

Made it through the usual fire of biologic med side effects that kill my weekends (Fri PM to Sun afternoon) so I can continue to work, but b...

This weekend has been quite pitiful. Between the shingles (in parts where you'd never want them), my weekly RA biologics making me fev...

G-d dammit. I need another health hurdle like a hole in the head, but here we are. I've had an outbreak of shingles . Shingles is a pa...

One of the things about rheumatoid arthritis, particularly with the advances of biologic medications that slow the damage of the incurable, ...

It took five calls and a lot of assertive patience to get this med. I have an excellent result to report after a trying exercise in cons...

See updates 2 and 3 at the end, and the final result here. The Health "Care" Industrial Complex screws me again. Last week, I ...

Not a good day - day 6 without Orencia (RA med). Made it into work but all of my joints hurt miserably (driving really hurt, limping, have...

Had a crash and burn day after my first day back at work on Mon -- without the benefit of my RA med (Orencia) because of ExpressScript's...

Time to vent. It's all I can do when you're up against the corporate health industrial complex. Express Scripts ( @ExpressScripts...

Just posting articles in between bouts of nausea and doubled-over-level pain. Hard to distract from it; watching L&O: CI marathon (2002 ...

I tend to be more pragmatic when it comes to trying new medical therapies; if dealing with some side effects is part of the price for improv...