All posts tagged: Books

MY RA Book

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  I am making progress! I started writing a book on RA a year ago. I have deep experiences as a patient. I have read extensively. I have written extensively. I have read much about other people living with the challenges of RA.  However, my book is starting to look like a textbook. This is not my intention. Fortunately for me I read a short book on organizing a kindle non-fiction book. It all made sense and I am now ready to go. I plan to have my book up and ready by midsummer. Unfortunately,  my RA is on a steady progressive course. I have tried most of the drugs on the list for RA and only a select few work. I am not one of the fortunate ones who make stunning progress with the biologics. I am grateful that they do work for some. Still I have to plod along my own RA path. My book will put together the RA basics for a grounded base. It will discuss the role of advocating for yourself as vital to …

Wrapping your head around RA

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When I was diagnosed with RA, I was too sick to understand the long term implications. I was grateful at the time to put a label on the devastating attack on my body. I love books and have always looked to books for solutions as well as for pleasure. Soon after my diagnosis, I purchased the book, The First Year Rheumatoid Arthritis by M.E.A. McNeil. With RA there is a major shift in your life. What to do? How to cope? What to think? It is overwhelming. This book set me on the right course. It helped me organize.

Maneuvering the medical system

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  Treat Me, Not My Age is written by geriatrician, Mark Lachs, MD*.   The book discusses Why you should be an informed patient  How to become  informed The pitfalls of being an aging patient in our current medical system How to take charge and  maneuver the medical system maze There are doctors who do nothing for  aging patients even though appropriate, aggressive treatment may improve the life and well-being in the elderly the same as someone younger. over treat aging patients, not understanding the patient’s health situation. talk down to an elderly patient and blow off patient’s concerns attributing them to aging problems instead of symptoms of disease. Over 98,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors. Many more are injured. The average primary doctor has about 2000 patients.  Dr. Lachs makes clear the perils we face as patients. He then offers  a guide to managing medical issues that we encounter as we age. He believes “…the most important primary care provider is you.”  It is your life. You are the one who needs to keep track of what …