First off, please excuse the appearance of my blog if you are seeing it and it is in shambles. I am in the process of creating it and making all pretty but I thought I would write first and decorate later, difficult as that may be for me!
I'm coming off of a very long hiatus from blogging, I used to write a blog called The Retro Housewife which actually, much to my surprise, had a decent following. At that time I was living my dream, being a stay at home wife and mother, making my home a haven for my family, cooking from scratch, everything all natural, doing yoga, going to the gym, just being as domestic as one could be without be an annoying Martha Stewart wanna be. Then....wait for it!....yup....RA. Well fast forward to RA, Celiac Disease hit but once I was diagnosed and went gluten free I felt great, RA was the down fall. Slowly, piece by piece, my world as I had created it for myself and my family started to fall away until I couldn't do all of those things that all together made me who I was. I try very hard to always be honest, authentic and real so naturally I shut down my blog because I no longer had anything to write about. I tried through out the years to start other blogs but my heart just wasn't it in, but now, six years after being diagnosed with RA I have found my new identity and while many of people will probably close this browser window after I say this....well I'm just going to say it anyway, part of that identity is RA, it is a sick person. No, RA and my other issues do not define me, they aren't the total sum of who I am but they are some of the blocks that build the tower that is me. I have accepted that (although sometimes, between you and me, I think I still have periods of denial-on the days when I am feeling well).
So why write about RA? Well, I found myself reading some other RA blogs and realized, holy crap on a cracker that sounds just like me, its as if the words are coming straight out of my mouth and somehow ending up on that blogger's page. That was a good feeling, knowing that I wasn't alone, that other people feel the same exact way I do. I'm hoping that in writing about my bad times, my good times, my struggles and my triumphs, someone else reading will feel a little less alone. Also, writing is a really good outlet for me so it is not completely unselfish!
Okay so now down to the nitty gritty of it.... you get the Rheumatoid Arthritis part but whats with the Alphabet Soup part? Well I feel that my family and I have turned into alphabet soup. Between us all we have RA ,OCD, ADHD, PTSD, TBI, NCG and the list goes on....yeah we are a fun bunch. My daughter and I are just the results of horrible genetics mixing, my husband, well he served our country and he is paying the price for it.
So there, my first post! Now I can decorate!!
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