Great Blogs I have read

#RABlog week is at its heart a way for bloggers to connect. Tell others about the great blogs you have read this week. Perhaps you have found a gem from a blogger, you did not know before this week. Or maybe one of your friends gave a special insight. Give the high five in print to another great blogger.

I wish I could mention every blogger who took the chance and blogged with us this inaugural #RABlog week. The fact that you took a risk and came along is amazing and I am so pleased with the results. So to start all bloggers who contributed this week gets my high five. Thank you a thousand times over. To pick out my favorite bloggers this week I looked at each day, here are seven blogs that absolutely blew me away.

Day 1: A day (or an hour) in your life

I wanted the first blog posted to be good. I wrote what I thought was the best I could and I posted it when I opened blog week. Not long after I posted my blog, Annette posted this blog and it blew me away. Since I wanted a great blog for the first one on the first day I went behind the curtain of the mechanics of this week and withdrew my post making Annette’s first. Yeah, it is that good. Almost everyone who posted that day could have surpassed my effort.

Day 2: Managing RA fatigue

I had set a goal of reading and commenting on as many blog posts this week I could. So I was reading the blogs and I came across Kat’s of Flared Gene’s wonderful advice on fatigue. Check it out here. It is an amazing post and I am so pleased she shared it with us.

Day 3: Explain your RA

Day 3 was difficult for me. I was lost and I felt rushed as I wrote my post so I did not do a very good job. Therefore, I was very interested in what others would say. That is when I came to Linda Perkins post Life with RA: Like a Bowl of Jelly Bellies. It is a perfect blog, it both makes the point and entertains at the same time.

Day 4: Five things I have learned

This was my favorite day of #RAblog week. I loved reading all the great lessons learned. But the best of the day I thought was written by Lene Andersen titled 5 Things I’ve learned from RA. It is a terrific blog from a terrific writer. I hope you get to chance to read it.

Day 5: Exercise and RA

Kaz wrote a terrific blog about exercise and RA. I wrote about one of the wildcard topics that day and actually after reading Kaz’s blog I was glad I did. Sometimes you see a perfect blog and say wow, I could never have done better. Kaz wrote that perfect blog.

Day 6: Onset stories

Onset stories are the most interesting and personal stories we tell. I loved all of the stories posted yesterday. But one I love a lot was prepared by Molly Schreiber. Molly outlines a memorable start to RA. I hope you read Molly’s remembrances.

Wildcards

I really enjoyed Dana Symons blog ‘Rheumatoid Disease Update: The Eyes Have It’ is just fantastic. It is posted in wildcard #3. Reading her blog, I was both informed and entertained. I did not understand about the link between RA and Sjogren’s Syndrome. Dana gave us a very interesting post that held my attention.

And with that #RABlog week has come to an end for me. I hope everyone had a good time blogging this week, and most of all I hope we have developed great relationships. Blogging is a solitary act for the most part, we do not get great feedback most of the time. I was asked this week what I hoped #RAblog week would accomplish? I answered that it is our attempt to correct community, using the written word. I hope you feel that community today as you read or write and write your final blog this week. #RAblog week will be back next year. I hope you will participate once again and in the meantime, keep the community going, read and support each others blogs.

Until next year, take care!!!

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