Hello everyone
im trying again to join this thread after somehow failing a while ago, anyway, good wishes to all of you.
i have severe RA and am currently not well; booked for hospital treatment after Christmas. I can relate to so much of what so many of you experience and say!
what has prompted me to write today is an experience I had this morning.
i went, fairly early, to a fruit and veg wholesaler to buy fresh stuff. It was, as I had expected, much busier than normal. What I hadn’t expected was to be cannoned into from behind and knocked to my knees by a child of around I’d say six. His mum apologised and pulled him away. Somewhat shocked I muttered to myself or so I thought ‘ I should think so’ . I’m quite sure neither mum nor child heard me.
A man, unconnected to mum and child but next to me however did hear absolutely laid into me verbally for being unkind to a child until I said with as much dignity as I could muster that I have RA and the collision had really hurt. He then couldn’t apologise enough.
i just left, came home and have cried since.
i know I have a largely hidden disability but something about today has clearly hit a lot of unarticulated or even unknown nerve endings. I feel obscurely both guilty and very much invisible. I suppose I wonder if any of this resonates with others.
Anyway thanks for reading and also for this very valuable thread.