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okay this is probably inspired by the fact that I haven't slept in two days.  I'm sure some of you know Jeff Foxworthy who does the "You might be a redneck" jokes well I thought we could put an RA twist and have a rare chance to laugh at this disease 
Here goes:
U Might have RA if... You've ever spent more then 20 minutes trying to figure out how to get out of a tub w/o using your arms or legs.
U Might have RA if... you've had to teach your hubby how to put on a bra.
U Might have RA if... your children imitate the frankenstien shuffle.
and finally...
U might have RA if... your wardrobe is organized not by season or color but by good days and bad.
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you catch yourself daydreaming about what it would be like to instead have some dramatic and romantic disease, like maybe some highly curable form of cancer...how everyone would crowd around you and support you, tell you how brave you are, etc...instead of giving you those funny looks that say "are you sure this isn't all in your head?"
Then you realize that you are fantasizing about having CANCER, for goodness sake, and you have to laugh at yourself and the absurdity of it all!
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| When your students take one look at you in the morning and ask if "Arthur" is here today.
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| that is funny!!!! I was at the Publix the other day and i caught myself looking at the canes the "pretty" ones. lol,lol
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This is my first post. I can't believe someone else has day dreamed about having Cancer. That makes me feel better about myself.
U Might have RA when you can't get to the bathroom at work because of the stairs and you have to quit drinking fluids. When you talk to the doctors at your works medical facility to try to work something out, they say "Well, what do you want me to do?! You have arthritis!" Maybe they think you forgot you were in constant pain.
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You sit on the toilet seat and can't get up.
You know you are stiff and aren't moving well, but you sit on the toilet seat anyway and then can't get up. This is a reminder to take you pills before you go. That way maybe you can get up on your own in a reasonable amount of time. I can laugh about this now, but a couple of months ago when I was having a bad flare up, I was like that for weeks. Well, even then it was kinda funny.
Cynthia
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| My mom passed away recently Ok, that part's not funny. But, my brother was driving here to visit me and was bringing me some things that my mom wanted me to have. Before the trip, my siblings that live close to my mom's town went through some of her stuff and added a few extra things to the "Kris pile". I can just see them now discussing what to do with this and that item until they came across her golden retriever. I can see it in my mind, no-one saying a word about that one, just placing it in my pile. It was tough going through her things, but when I came across that one I burst out laughing. And I was still chuckling when I tried to get up from the floor only to realize that I sat there so long going through things that I was too stiff to get up without some rocking and rolling and a helping hand.
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....you emailed these to your best friend who thought you wrote them all because it sounds just like you!
(true story--loved them all, sent them to my girlfriend for a laugh, she asked me if I was sure I did not write it!!!!)
Angie
Angie"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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.....your kids say "He moves just like you!" when watching a show about sloths on the Discovery channel.
Actually, sloths and bats are the only known mammals that do NOT show physiological signs that they suffer from arthritis, but the slow stiff gait of the sloths is WAY too familiar.
Theresa :o)
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Theresa138,
That is so funny! what your boy said with the "sloth". lol,lol
I watch the discovery channel ALL THE TIME. so I can picture the scene on the tv. and the comment. it cracks me up!!!!!!! lol,lol
Ya, Grandpavan, we can still have fun and laugh at ourselves!!!!
smiling, lc
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U Might have RA if: you have two pairs of shoes in your wardrobe; a black pair of Teva flip-flops and a hot pink pair for special occasions.
U Might have RA if: You have to hold your elbow up to brush your teeth
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| This is my first time here, and I just love this thread! You guys have already made me laugh and cry. My neighbor actually has cancer, and though I haven't wished I had that instead, I would certainly love to have some of that understanding and attention she gets. I was silently feeling guilty for that, so it made me feel better that some of you are having similar thoughts.
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| You might have RA if you are invited to go on an outing with a group of senior citizens and you are the only one in the group that brings a cane. (I'm 33.)
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Here's one.
How about when you're driving and you're trying hard not to have to put the brakes on because it hurts too much to move your leg or press the brakes with your foot. You end up driving slow so you don't have to stop.
What can you do? You need to go to work and nobody listens when you tell them about the pain. With the things they call problems, they could never believe anyone can live with so much pain.
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| When your 90 yr old aunt decides to move permanantly to her 2nd residence in Fla and gives everyone else crystal,furniture and pictures, and you get the wheelchair,walker, cane and hand grabbers!
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Back to the top!
Lefty in LA!
 God Bless all my RA Friends!
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| I loved this one!!! When my feet were so swollen and I could hardly walk, bought me some of those Teva 3 strap velco black sport sandals. Wow! Didn't know they came in Hot Pink too!!!! Got-a-get-em!
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