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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) - Introduce yourself and meet others
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It seems dysgeusia for me is linked to R A. It is constantly changing. Something cooked exactly the same way one day later can taste rotten, and then in a few days taste alright. Right now my favorite thing to eat is frozen blueberries. I find that food is more edible either very hot or very cold. This seems to fool the dysgeusia reaction.
After my fall before at the cabin and the parkinsonism that came several weeks later, I found it was more manageable than R A, as I did slowly improve. I had been jogging for around 40 years, and then I couldn't even walk without dragging one foot. I often fell in the ditch along the road. I went down out of sight to this sandy beach and tried to run, falling onto the soft sand. I was happy having given up appearances. I did slowly increase my time hobbling and not falling. ( to be continued )
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R A doesn't seem to follow that approach. It is more like riding a new horse that totally has a mind of its own. The situation is certainly not boring and is interesting like an unresolvable riddle. I think with the horse, there is a clear distinction. The horse is the horse, and I am the rider on the horse. Of course I have to be aware of what the horse will do, but there is no point in getting angry at the horse. There is no point in thinking I can change the horse. Maybe it went through some traumatic experience as a colt, and we simply can't go back and correct anything. Maybe with R A we are ourselves dealing with a condition that began years ago and now with what seems the coincidental alignment of certain things, is now becoming glaringly real. We might be wise to get off the idea that the horse has to be changed. The ride might not be that easy, but we can enjoy the natural surroundings along the trail. The ride isn't simply us on a horse. The unruly horse shouldn't spoil things in our minds any more than we can spoil things in the horse's mind.