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Article about RA and Camryn Manheim

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marnie mitchell - 23 Oct 2005 03:53 GMT
I just posted this over at kickas.org but i KNOW some of you here might
want to read it. :

'This weeks people mag has an article about camryn manheim and how she
has RA. Though I know this group is for AS, Ive always felt that RA is
like the 'sister' disease to the one we have and we havent had anyone
even remotely close to my age in the public with the disease. Its a
great article, and it mirrors my own search for pain relief. It sounds
like shes taking one of the biologicals since she takes shots, its nice
to see the words in the blue box at the end of the article which
states. 'It shouldn't be confused with osteoarthritis". I swear, the
main thing that I think confused a lot of the aqaintances taht found
out I have arthritis is that they arent used to seeing people in their
late 20's, early 30's have arthritis which is known so much as being
for a different generation then mine. Anyways, I thought I would let
you all know about the article and I jumped off the couch to do it, so
now back to the movie with my hubby.'

*hugs* to you all

marnie
Gwen Love - 23 Oct 2005 17:56 GMT
Marnie, this group is for any kind of arthritic disease, not just AS.  Very
interesting about Camryn Manheim.
Gwen

>I just posted this over at kickas.org but i KNOW some of you here might
> want to read it. :
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>
> marnie
marnie mitchell - 24 Oct 2005 00:39 GMT
Gwen, I know this, I was pasting my post to the AS board onto here. But
thanks again for the clarification.

marnie
Nicole H - 24 Oct 2005 02:49 GMT
There are over 100 types of arthritis so this ng would be for anyone with
arthritis.
Thanks for the article
>I just posted this over at kickas.org but i KNOW some of you here might
> want to read it. :
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>
> marnie
Charrlygrl1 - 24 Oct 2005 18:02 GMT
Thanks for posting this Marnie. (I also have AS).
One of the things discussed on another board that I frequent is that
how folks with RA are always shown looking just fine. Even the
Arthritis Today magazine put out by the Arthritis Foundation has all of
these models smiling and looking great-not a knobby looking knuckle on
any of them. It seems to bother a lot of people that RA isn't portrayed
the way it really looks in real life. And a lot of folks think that
this helps to perpetuate the myth that RA is just like osteo, when we
all know it isn't.
Just a thought, and thanks again for posting this!
Char
DianeW - 25 Oct 2005 17:27 GMT
I was thinking that same exact thing when I got this months magazine.
Let's see them do a "real" cover girl.  Any volunteers???? DianeW
Nann Bell - 26 Oct 2005 04:10 GMT
> I was thinking that same exact thing when I got this months magazine.
> Let's see them do a "real" cover girl.  Any volunteers???? DianeW

Is anyone else as infuriated as I am by all those stiff cardboard advertising
inserts that fill up "Arthritis Today"?  I find they really make the pages
difficult to turn but tearing them out is a painful prospect too.  I've been
known to put off reading the magazine until I have a day when my hands are
willing to cope with those blasted inserts.

I've been counting them since last spring.  AT consisitently runs 8-10 of
those things each month.  I fired off a letter to them last week asking them
to please consider their constituency.  I know advertisers like those
inserts, but shoot this magazine IS for the arthritis population!

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Gwen Love - 26 Oct 2005 16:57 GMT
I've gotten so put out with them that I discontinued my membership.  Sorry
folks.
Gwen

>> I was thinking that same exact thing when I got this months magazine.
>> Let's see them do a "real" cover girl.  Any volunteers???? DianeW
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> to please consider their constituency.  I know advertisers like those
> inserts, but shoot this magazine IS for the arthritis population!
Nann Bell - 27 Oct 2005 02:14 GMT
> I've gotten so put out with them that I discontinued my membership.  Sorry
> folks.
> Gwen

yeah, I stopped for a while too, then started up again when I was
volunteering with them in Boston.  I give more to the National Psoriasis
Foundation though.  I have a much, much higher opinion of them as an
organization and in terms of what they've accomplished in their relatively
few years of existence.

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Nann Bell - 26 Oct 2005 04:10 GMT
Thanks for posting this, Marnie.  I meant to look at the article when I was
at the library the other day, but of course I couldn't remember what is was I
was looking for when I got there!  (I remembered books and books on tape,
forgot People magazine.)  I'll have to see if the little vestpocket library
out near us has the magazine.

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