After willwin2's post about the RA blues, it got me thinking more about how important humour is in dealing with this condition. When I posted in that thread about the RA shuffle, I got this insane image of all the posters here shuffling in a disco, while our blues song played. I was laughing out loud here alone, in spite of a rather high level of discomfort.
It can be so hard to find anything funny about our disease. Does anyone have a funny story or joke related to RA? Or not related. For instance, I share my home with three cats. One morning, I couldn't get out of bed. My youngest cat then spent the better part of an hour bringing me one cheeto at a time from a bag he knocked over in the kitchen. It was so funny, and touching.
Also, hate the disease, but please don't hate yourself.
Cheryl
That cheeto thing is so funny Cheryl. It's amazing how our animals can sense our problems isn't it?
I don't really have any funny stories to tell; but I do agree it's very important to keep a good attitude and not take any of it too seriously. My sweet husband is always good at making me laugh.
Laughter and happiness makes all the difference in the world.
Hi Cheryl,
That is so sweet
My favorite story (nothing to do with RA, of course) happened years ago when my cousins "Dwayne" and "Mark" were working towards their scout badges. One day the were hiking together in the woods near their home. Dwayne was bitten by a snake, Mark being a scout knew just what to do....he had Dwayne lay down and turned around to run for help. In his excitement, he ran into a tree, knocked himself out cold, and poor Dwayne had to get up and run for help
Ya gotta love those guys
As for the snake, he was just a harmless garden snake
Thanks Cheryl, that was fun!!
When me daughter was 2yrs old, she was a BIG Disney movie freak...lol. A Tigger Movie came out on VHS and she watched it a few times. One day I came out to the living room to see what she was doing. I round the corner and there she was on the futon covered with white stuff. She had these lil' stuffed Tigger, Kanga & Roo, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Pooh, & Eeyore, that hubby gave me back about 5 months before she was born while I was in the hospital, I let her have them. She had the mattress of the futon pushed down between the bars of the futon and had it filled up with white syro-foam beads. She had ripped apart her lap desk to find the lil' beads of syro-foam and she thought it looked like snow. She had them covered in the "snow" and was yelling "Tigger".
I asked her what she was doing and she said "They are looking for Tigger."
That is the only thing I really remember about her being that small. I always get flash backs of that day. It was just so CUTE! But very messy...lol.
How precious!!!! It's so impossible to stay mad when they do things that are so cute!
Cheryl
This is funny to me but some it may not be,you just have to know my husband and my daughter Carrie.
I use to weigh 245 back in Dec. My husband got us memberships at the Y.He tried to encourage my daughter Carrie to go with me by telling her that mama might die if she doesn't exercise.Now Carrie has me pull up my shirt to see my stomach.She doesn't say skinny she says skin.She won't even say fat, she spells it.SO she is my skinny detector.
Now to explain my crazy husband scaring her to death.My dad had a stroke last year and he was worried about me.
Carrie now watches what I eat.She is so funny about it though.
At first I didn't think it was funny but I just had to laugh at my husband and his tactics to get me into the gym.I have now lost 60 pounds.Thanks to Jimmy scaring Carrie to death and Carrie measuring my stomach.Now my husband is a bit concerned about the men at the gym looking at me.
Cheryl
Good going Shelia! And isn't it funny when our hubby's get jealous...lol.
I got one to match shelia's well kinda...lol.
I went into Taco Bell a couple of weeks ago, to get my daughter some nachos & cheese. I was wearing a low cut tee shirt and shorts. I walk up to the counter and there is this boy (maybe 17 or 18). He looks at me and I notice he is looking down my shirt! He was flirting with me and then he calls this other guy over to the register and he too was looking down my shirt. I am a short person, so it is not hard to look down my shirt...lol. Sham sham sham on me for saying that but it is true...lol. Anyways I get my order go out to the car and tell hubby of Derek and Tim flirting with me. He knew they had to of been looking down my shirt...lol..because he does it to me when I wear this shirt.
Long story short. He got upset and jealous. I have never been able to make him jealous, unless I talked about my ex. But he was acting really weird and said he was not letting me eat from Taco Bell again, he does not eat from Taco bell.