The Autoimmune Community Team (ACT): Redefining Research 2015 Celgene Innovation Impact Awards: Unleashing the Patient Voice in Research.autoimmune patients (125-175), diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), AND/OR radiographic or non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA/nr-axSpA)

Want To Help Change How Research Is Conducted?

First off, let me tell you how EXCITED I am to be a part of this project! CEO of the International Foundation of Autoimmune Arthritis (IFAA), Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, reached out to me months ago about the project and I’m so pumped to finally hit the ground with recruiting patients.   So what is this AWESOME …

IFAA Study Giveaway

#PATIENTPOWER Giveaway Alert! Become a #60minuteGameChanger and win some greeting cards. Have you completed the International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis’ Early Symptom study? If you have, you can enter into a giveaway! And if you haven’t, there’s still time to complete it! The raffle and the study go until August 15th! As some of you …

Be a #60MinuteGameChanger

If you could save a fellow patient from delayed diagnosis & potential disability, would you do it? Donate 60 minutes to research and you can!* I’ve teamed up with the International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis, Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation, Spondylitis Association of America, the International Still’s Disease Foundation and Lupus UK to help recruit patients to participate …

Pittsburgh Walk to Cure Arthritis

  Tomorrow is the last day of arthritis month and the Pittsburgh Walk to Cure Arthritis will be held to celebrate. Online sign ups end today, but you can always sign up on the spot tomorrow! I’ll be working registration so I can hook you up 😉 (haha along with all the other volunteers there)   This …

It’s An Exciting Day!!!!!!

Today is a really exciting day in my  world!   Today kicks off an awesome 2 day online conference for autoimmune arthritis and my new site is live! Of course for my launch I had to wear my curearthritis.com shirt.   My site now features new pages which I’ve accumulated a lot of information for. Now there …

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day 2014! {Register TODAY!}

    I’m so so so so SO excited that for 2014 World Autoimmune Arthritis Day I’ve been given the opportunity to host a live chat! My chat topic is based off of my blog title ~ It’s Just A Bad Day NOT A Bad Life! Do you have tactics you use when you’re going …

Autoimmune Arthritis Problems: ‘Normal Person’ Sick

You may have noticed I’ve been pretty absent for the last 2 weeks…. I’ve been wondering when I was going to experience getting ‘normal person’ sick while being on humira. Last year I spent most of my time secluded and not around a lot of germs soooooo I was able to stay ‘healthy’. I started …