Someone Else's Life

I am a goal-setter. Always have been. I get great satisfaction from knowing what I want in my life and making it happen.

Realizing the impact of psoriatic arthritis

Twenty years ago, my goals started becoming harder to finish. Even with my hard-headed mindset, my body didn't want to cooperate. It responded to my wishes with complaints – loud complaints!
After my doctor and I figured out the path I was on and I got set up with a rheumatologist, I thought with medications I could go on my way. But as the pain got continually worse and I learned more about my foe, psoriatic arthritis, I realized that I was losing control of my body and my life as I knew it.

Over the years, I have had to stop making goals for the years, months, and days ahead. Now I live for what I can accomplish on a day-to-day basis. Making a plan and sticking through to the end has become an idea of just doing what I can. I still try to push myself, but I have had to become forgiving to myself when I am having an unsuccessful day.

So I guess now my only long-term goals are to take each day as it comes and celebrate those short-term successes with a thankful heart.