Five tips to help loved ones come to terms with Still’s Disease
Still’s Disease will almost certainly have a large impact on your life. There’s no doubt: living day-in, day-out with pain, the loss of your previously good health and battling with medication is not an easy thing to do.
But what about the other people in your life? As people that care deeply for you, your friends [...]
How does a doctor respond to Still’s Disease?
Continuing with the case study of Jonathan Zarin, a 26 year old New Yorker recently diagnosed with Still’s Disease, this interview features Dr. Ed Parrish andd looks at the disease itself, how Still’s can manifest itself in different patients and some of the advances in the development of effective treatments.
I love to see how posistive [...]
Can you communicate with your doctor?
Doctors can be a funny bunch. All too often specialists an come across more as scientists who view your illness as a fascinating problem to be solved rather than caring, empathetic healers. This is not to say that every rheumatologist is to be tarred with the same brush, but regardless of which doctor you see, [...]
The Five Stages of Coming to Terms With Diagnosis
Grief is a process that any one with a chronic illness goes through. This post describes the five stages of grief in relation to an illness like Still’s Disease.
