From the article: Continue Your Hobbies Despite Arthritis
When osteoarthritis pain is at its worst, you may wonder how you can continue your hobbies. I'll stop short of saying it's easy, but you can continue your hobbies despite osteoarthritis. Whether you are passionate about knitting, sewing, playing the piano, gardening, stamp collecting, or cooking great meals -- you shouldn't have to give it up.
What's the trick? How can a person with arthritis pain and the physical limitations stay involved in regular activies, especially their beloved hobbies? It's not a trick -- you have to be smart. Share your favorite hobby. Share your experience. Share your advice.
Share Your ExperienceWill make it happen
- Arthritis, a curse, a pain in the neck, back, legs, arms, fingers in fact almost everywhere, and yet when it's an easy day, although those days are few and far between, I feel I could run a marathon, metaphorically speaking, for I know if I did I would be well and truly crippled. Dancing, was my thing, the beat of a drum, the rhythm of a good song and there I was up on that floor, shaking my thang, sadly my "thang's" not been shaken for almost 10 years now, and I think if I tried to do it, it's not only my thang that would shake, I reckon I would too. Dealing with not only Arthritis, but ParaHyperThyroidism, Low Vitamin B12, Labyrinthitis and Pernicious Anemia sees me some days feeling like a zombie. The operation I had to remove the ParaThyroid, didn't work and yet had to have it done, I would have been back on my feet and well on my way to achieving some of my most treasured dreams.
- —Guest Wanna-do-it
Things I Can't Do
- The things I can't do anymore - that I once did very well - is growing infuriatingly long. Cancer was nothing compared to Arthritis (in my case). They cut out the cancer, poisoned me with some chemo, seared my flesh with some radiation and done! Man... if I could get Arthritis cut out - I'd be on the table RIGHT NOW.
- —Guest Croanar the Defiant
