November 21 2016
Lisa’s Story: RA Holidays – The Patient Lens
Are you ready for the holiday season? Is everything shopped and shipped? Are you ready to bake, decorate, party, travel, and live it up?
If not, that’s okay; the season has just begun. We have several more weeks of go-go-go, high expectations, exhaustion, shopping, cooking, gatherings, more exhaustion, chronic illness, and an apparent no-end to the need to have fun, be merry, and celebrate with an overabundance of, well, everything.
Those of us who live with chronic illness, especially rheumatoid arthritis, know that the holidays can be anything but merry if we’re not careful to pace ourselves and be smart along the way.
How can you survive the holidays?