Steroids nearly killed me

Dube
Dube

Have you ever thought of packaging your life, shove into a bottle, and throw it into the sea to float away? I have. For maybe it will float away with the pain.

My daily struggle with debilitating pain has my mind messed up that I want to go into all joints of my body, suck out every frozen cracked fluid and breath back in fresh new fluids.

Imagine a home where there is a constant battle, the husband and wife throwing every gadget on site to each other, bleeding to the point of collapse. Time and again the neighbours come in to calm the storm, but the relief is short lived. That is my life, in my battle against RA.

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