RADIO 2 NOW!!

frogmorton

Are discussing arthritis...worth listening to on play again if you ahve missed too much

Love

Toni xx

bertyboy

weve got stuff on local radio , so will check the other later x

Jennycg

Yes it was very interesting.

Should be on listen again soon.

Jenny

julie47

looked on i player for radio 2 but can't find it.

still i am not good at finding things.

wish i had seen this earlier

thanks toni anyway

juliepf x

frogmorton

Hi Julie

google radio 2 then jeremy vine and then you can play it again on tehre on your PC or laptop.

Hope that helps

Love

Toni xx

Jennycg

Hopefully this link will take you to the right place

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zxpw2

It was some way into the prog I think.

good luck Jenny

frogmorton

Jennycg wrote:

Hopefully this link will take you to the right place

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zxpw2

It was some way into the prog I think.

good luck Jenny

after 1 l think Jenny

keith1971

Personally I found that hugely depressing.

:roll:

julie47

thanks toni and jenny will try them.

juliepf x

just listened and had to stop listening when it got on to life expectancy got a bit scared then

Poppyg1rl

I know what you mean Julie, I listened and thought :???: kind of wish i hadnt, I'm only able to cope if I stick my fingers in my ears and say "la la I'm not listening" xxx

frogmorton

I wont then :shock:

was just so pleased that they were talking about it on a national radio station :sad:

lindalegs

Thanks for that Toni.

.....and for those who have listened try not to dwell on the negative points of the programme :roll: but the fact that it will raise awareness for those of us who live with arthur and hopefully we will gain more empathy from non-sufferers.

dreamdaisy

People who do not have any experience of long-term health diffculties will never empathise or understand and why should they? Why do we expect them to? It's beyond human comprehension. People only begin to understand once they themselves are affected.

I suppose they trotted out the dying-ten-years-earlier thing again. Who knows? One's lifespan is one's lifespan, we all cheerfully do things that shorten our natural lifespan every day and don't think twice about it. I could die tomorrow - if I do I hope it's before I do my meth. I am not in the mood for that this week. DD

tillytop

Thanks for flagging this up Toni.

I have just listened and I too was just so pleased that this "non-sexy" disease of ours is being discussed seriously on national prime-time radio. I thought the doc was lovely and made some very good points. I wish my GP was as understanding! Personally I didn't find it either depressing or frightening and the life expectancy bit simply doesn't worry me (don't know why cos I am one of the world's great worriers :roll: ).

Just hope lots of people listened and took in what was being said because anything which can be done to raise awareness has got to be a good thing.

So thanks again Toni.

Tillyxxx

lindalegs

dreamdaisy wrote:

People who do not have any experience of long-term health diffculties will never empathise or understand and why should they? Why do we expect them to? It's beyond human comprehension. People only begin to understand once they themselves are affected.
DD

I disagree with you DD in my experience people are understanding, especially friends and those close to us. Sometimes family become a little detached but that's how they cope with seeing us struggle. I find people around me very supportive - I'm so sorry you don't :sad:

dreamdaisy

Oh people say all the right things, and occasionally show great flashes of insight (like when they have toothache or somesuch) but they don't have a clue about what it is like on a day-to-day basis, and why would they? There are many health conditions that I don't comprehend as I have had no direct experience of them - heart trouble is one that springs to mind, diabetes another, thyroid problems, I don't know how they affect people physically or psychologically. I know the theory about them but not the reality. DD

elnafinn

lindalegs wrote:

Thanks for that Toni.

.....and for those who have listened try not to dwell on the negative points of the programme :roll: but the fact that it will raise awareness for those of us who live with arthur and hopefully we will gain more empathy from non-sufferers.

I listened to it and I agree with you, Linda especially with the raising of awareness for those living with arthritis and the age that one can be struck down with it. I did think as someone else said that the doc who was otherwise very sympathetic did brush OA under the carpet rather and that was not good for OA sufferers. It definitely does not only affect knees and hips as she mentioned on a couple of occasions during the interview.

There are many diseases where people suffer greatly for years in so many different ways and that is what saddened me. I see it around me, starting with my neighbours next door which is a constant reminder. Both keep remarkably cheerful and I hold them both in very high esteem. I wonder if I would be as buoyant as them if it were me. I think not. I hope I never have to find out.

Elna

kathbee

Thanks Toni for putting up the thread, I listened
to it on the Radio 2 Playlist.

The lady who ended her life by going to a suicide clinic,
no-one can possibly tell what she was going through.

The contradictory headline in The Daily Mail stated
that the lady was 'a healthy woman aged 84'.
Then in the paragraph below said she had arthritis.

How can the two words go together, healthy and arthritis.
They just dont have a clue and neither did I before I was generously
given 3 of these conditions. (RA, OA and Fibromyalgia)

Also the lady doctor did sound 'so sincere' saying that RA and Fibromyalgia were such awful diseases,
so we have to wonder
why the government is soon going to be
possibly stripping sufferers of these 'awful arthritic diseases' of their benefits and probe into how they conduct their daily lives to save this government money which is being squandered elsewhere.

Aaarrgghhhh - Makes my blood boil.

Kath

MarkC

Hi,

I've just spoken to my dad and he said that they were talking about rhuematoid arthritis with young people on Jeremy Vine today but I can't seem to find it on 'Listen Again' for today's show (reluctant to listen to 2 hours of Jeremy Vine!) and after a bit of Google searching I've found out he was talking about arthritis last week, but I can't now listen to it as the BBC have taken it down as it's more than 7 days since it was broadcast.

Does anyone know whether he was talking about it today as well, or has my dad lost his marbles?

For those that don't know me, I'm pretty new here, aged 27 and was diagnosed with RA in December, so still learning about it, so that's why I'm so curious!

Also, would anyone who did listen to it be able to tell me what they talked about please? From what I've read, it was quite depressing but I have no idea what they said!

Thank you!

lindalegs

Hi Mark,

I listened to some of it (it wasn't today by the way so here's some marbles for your Dad! ). They were talking about an 82 year old lady with Rheumatoid who'd decided to go to the clinic in Switzerland to finish her life - is it called Dignatas?

They then talked about how painful and debilitating RA is and how in some cases it can shorten your life especially if you've had it for a very long time :shock:

It was dealt with in a sympathetic and understanding manner and was interesting to listen to - sorry you missed it and hopefully others will come along and fill you in a lot more than I've been able to.

tillytop

Hello peeps

I was interested to hear from my sister in law the other day who had listened to the programme and she said she hadn't realised just how debilitating RA etc can be. I was interested to hear her say that because she has known me from the beginning of my RA nearly 15 years ago and we have talked about it many times. I think this is a good example of how programmes like this can help to raise awareness - which can only be a good thing.

Tillyxxx