I guess a lot of it comes down to how it is presented to you at the hospital/GP. Don’t get me wrong,I will refer to mtx as ‘medication’ most of the time because I know that chemo is to most people a cancer thing. For me the big yellow sharps bin with CHEMO that sits in my tiny flat gives it away to most people who…
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Preach. I have RA and I take MTX and I will call it chemo thank you very much. Yes, it’s not as much as cancer patients take but I am still getting some hair loss and sickness. For me, telling someone that it’s chemo shows them A) that the side effects are awful and that’s why I take it at the weekend so I don’t miss…
It seems like this article is saying “she shouldn’t use that word because most people have a limited frame of reference for it and it confuses them”. Sorry, but as a sufferer of a few chronic illnesses, including Ulcerative Colitis that I have been having a 2 month long flare up of that has not responded to any of the…
Yeah, this story just infuriated me. I was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 13. I’m 29 now. I’ve taken methotrexate on and off since being diagnosed (and I most certainly do call it chemo, because it most certainly is - the vomiting that follows leaves no doubt), plus almost every other medication for…
tbh it’s really rare for someone to completely understand their illness much less the illness of someone else no matter how close to them. Most people aren’t in the medical field, but often people who have knowledge kind of assume everyone else has the same level of knowledge of even just understanding of what they…
THIS. Systemic JRA sufferer here. I get really sick of people who think RA doesn’t exist or is caused by gluten/sugar/moonbeams or whatever the flavor of the month is. We’re tired enough fighting our bodies. We don't need to fight over terminology and whether it actually exists too.
I grew up with a heart surgeon for a father and a nurse for a mother. I have to consistently remind myself that my husband’s family doesn’t have the medical knowledge that my family does and recounting of hospital related events will take 2-3 conversations to get the actual terms and events right.
Um yes, many RA or other arthritis patients can and do rightfully say we’re receiving chemo. Methotrexate is a chemotherapy agent. Here’s the problem: when people hear arthritis, they think of grandma with a sore thumb. The reality is people with autoimmune arthritis are sick every damn day, with joint pain and…
I know a lady with an immune disease (scleroderma) who takes chemotherapy drugs for it, and she calls it chemo too. I think when people have these kinds of invisible illnesses, having treatments that have names that convince regular people of the seriousness of their conditions is a way of dealing with the stigma of…
Some of her past boyfriends in their underwear (not chronological):
If you’re going to be an asshole and correct other people’s spelling EVEN WHEN YOU UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY MEANT make sure your own spelling is impeccable. It’s TRULY not TRUELY.
It’s spelled ‘truly’, as in ‘It’s truly the case that when people mistype a homophonous word, it’s often not because they’re confused, but rather that the muscle memory in their fingers has its own ideas. And pointing out a spelling error that didn’t get in the way of your understanding what they were communicating is…
As a former art major, you should know that “art thesis” is just the name that they give to the body of work that you create as the culmination of your studies. It’s the exploration of a single idea, just like theses in other disciplines are an exploration of a single idea. As a former art major myself, there’s…
Remember when she suggested people drink more water and people lost their shit in outrage? As if we don't all know that we should be drinking more water. Literally the most innocuous health recommendation of all time.
It takes weeks to prepare a filing, it couldn’t have happened spontaneously. And Depp was known to hate his mother, Amber was the one who handled her end of life care.
“Hope Hicks” is also a key part of the RNC’s voter turnout strategy.
I used to be not exactly pro-death penalty, but not completely against it either. Then the state of Texas executed a clearly innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham, in 2004. I’ve been dead set against it ever since, and will spend the rest of the time that I live in this country fighting against it.
My objection to the death penalty hinges on three questions: