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Getting Up is Hard to Do : Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis

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In Getting Up Is Hard To Do: Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Canadian author Wanda James notes that not only does the wide-spread medical condition of arthritis cost its sufferers more than 70 billion dollars annually, it is also the leading cause of long-term disability in North America. James also reveals that the notion of arthritis as being restricted to the elderly is simply incorrect and is a condition that afflicts infants, children, teens, young adults, and the middle aged as well. Highly recommended for his insights, candor, thoughtfulness, and humor, James' Getting Up Is Hard To Do reveals to the reader what it is truly like to live with this condition which is highlighted by unrelenting and severe pain; immobility; harsh medications with their assorted side effects; loss of self-esteem, loss of career; loss of what so many of us simply take for granted -- our health.

I would recommend this book to anyone living with RA! It is helpful in understanding the feelings that go along with having a debilitating disease. It also helped my friends, that do not have RA, to understand how I felt. The poem on page 98 is very insightful and I realized that I felt the same way. Ms. James is an inspiration to keep going!

If you have RA, get this book but Please don't pay the crazy prices on here!!!

To order the book, email wjames000@sympatico.ca, or phone (613) 448-2541, or write P.O. Box 45, Morewood, Ontario Canada K0A 2R0.