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Pick A Card, Any Card

 I recently underwent a procedure to install an ICD, or a defibrillator.This little baby ensures that my heart beats properly at all times, and if I somehow slip into an arrhythmia, the device will...

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Four Years In The Making

 It’s a banner day, my faithful readers. For all the years that I have been writing this column, I have intermittently spoken about a phantom “book” that I was writing. The book, an autobiography,...

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Arthritis is a smelly nerd with thick, black glasses

 Autoimmune disease -- and arthritis in particular -- is a very frustrating illness to help find a cure for. Arthritis doesn’t have a celebrity who is on TV all the time, constantly crusading....

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The mechanics of repulsion

 Here we are again. Another summer is beginning, and the weather is starting to change. Instead of cold and wet days and nights, we will soon have hot evenings and even hotter days.Fortunately, the...

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Someone who mattered

 Three days ago, on Father’s Day, I lost someone very special to me. This person was, in large part, responsible for teaching me about living with Rheumatoid Arthritis and how to make the most of a...

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Your Bucket List

 This week I was going to write about something funny, something trivial, and something light in order to offset the heartfelt but maudlin tribute that the last column turned into. As I often do, I had...

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What a long strange trip it’s been.

 This past weekend, Allison and I attended the Arthritis Conference in St. Louis. The conference was a rousing success with over 1000 attendees, most of whom were families with children. At the...

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More Machine Than Man.

 “He’s more machine now than man. His mind is twisted….”This past week, when I mentioned to one of my friends that I was going in for yet another joint replacement, he reminded me of this most...

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Extorting the disabled

 As many of you know, I recently had a defibrillator installed. This was in response to a heart attack I suffered the last time I went under the knife. Now I have lost the use of up to 20% of my heart,...

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Why arthritis doesn't receive money for research

  We need money to fix this horrible group of debilitaing illnesses, and the only way we are going to get it is to get down in the mud with the rest of the diseases. It may be unpleasant to consider...

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We can rebuild him … we have the technology

Well, here we are again folks. One week from today I will be on my way to the hospital for yet another joint replacement. This time I will be losing my right ankle and inserting a metal one instead....

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Surgery cancelled due to doctor politics

  Last time, I gave you the last piece of writing before I underwent the knife once again. This time getting my ankle replaced, I spoke about all the old fears and concerns surfacing anew. Well, the...

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Arthritis: Underappreciated and Doomed to Obscurity?

Number one isn’t always the best.It seems like common sense that if something is classified as number one that it would be a good thing, right? Especially if that thing is number one in more than one...

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The Human Spirit Is Where You Find it

Despite the fact that I have had no power, heat, or means of accessing the Internet this week, I wanted to put together a small piece for those of you in the New York/New Jersey Tri-State area that I...

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Lessons Surviving Sandy

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Ankle Replacement Surgery: Finally

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New Ankle, New Year

By the time you read this, the ball will have dropped and the New Year will have officially started. As my faithful readers know, I did not post a blog entry last newsletter, and for that I truly...

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New Year’s Resolutions: Ugh

New Year’s Resolutions. Three little words that all of us know well and most of us dread. A constant source of guilt when we discard the resolutions within a few weeks, these goals for the coming year...

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Has My Luck Run Out?

“Ugh, my ankle still hurts. This is crazy. I thought that this replacement was going to be easy-peasy like the rest.”I can’t tell you how many times in the last month-and-a-half I have uttered the...

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What's that about silver linings?

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