RADIO 2 NOW!!

frogmorton
frogmorton Member Posts: 29,830
edited 13. Apr 2011, 05:39 in Living with Arthritis archive
Are discussing arthritis...worth listening to on play again if you ahve missed too much

Love

Toni xx

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  • bertyboy
    bertyboy Member Posts: 1,860
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    weve got stuff on local radio , so will check the other later x
    I know i am a lady ,all life is a journey xx MAY xx
  • Jennycg
    Jennycg Member Posts: 10
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Yes it was very interesting.

    Should be on listen again soon.

    Jenny
  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,830
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    Jennycg Member Posts: 10
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,830
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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 :smile:
  • keith1971
    keith1971 Member Posts: 302
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Personally I found that hugely depressing.

    :roll:
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  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    thanks toni and jenny will try them.

    juliepf x

    just listened and had to stop listening when it got on to life expectancy :lol: got a bit scared then :lol:
  • Poppyg1rl
    Poppyg1rl Member Posts: 1,245
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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" :grin: xxx
    'grá agus solas'
    'Love and Light' translated from Irish. X
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,830
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I wont then :shock:

    was just so pleased that they were talking about it on a national radio station :sad:
  • lindalegs
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Thanks for that Toni. :grin:

    .....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. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tillytop
    tillytop Member Posts: 3,460
    edited 5. Apr 2011, 08:38
    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
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • elnafinn
    elnafinn Member Posts: 7,412
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    lindalegs wrote:
    Thanks for that Toni. :grin:

    .....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. :grin:

    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
    The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

    If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
  • kathbee
    kathbee Member Posts: 934
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    MarkC Member Posts: 16
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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
    lindalegs Member Posts: 5,395
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi Mark,

    I listened to some of it (it wasn't today by the way so here's some marbles for your Dad! :wink: ). 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. :grin:
    Love, Legs x
    'Make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing'
  • tillytop
    tillytop Member Posts: 3,460
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    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