Introduction and cost of living thoughts

BeccaSylvestre

Hi Guys,

Lovely to be joining you all here. My name is Rebecca. Ive had osteoarthritis since I was very young, relating to multiple hereditary exostoses and I’ve had two osteotomies in the last couple of years. It was a long recovery time and I’m finally back at school. I am a journalist training with the press association and I come to this new forum of (soon to be friends) to ask a favour... I am writing an article (for a practical exam on Wednesday the 18th) on the impact of cost of living on people arthritis. I am using the recent versus arthritis survey as a reference point. Yesterday I interviewed the lovely Paul and Liz from the VA press team in London. I would be grateful for some first hand accounts of how you’ve been experiencing the cost of living crisis in regards to your arthritis. The research says it’s been quite a worry, people are worried about heating their homes, eating properly, affording medication. [xxx]

Looking forward to contributing here :)

Rebecca

[Post edited to remove survey request - Peter (Moderator)]

noddingtonpete

Hello @BeccaSylvestre and welcome to the Community. We are a friendly and supportive group and I hope that you will experience that as well.

I understand that you have osteoarthritis and I have included a couple of links below from our website which I hope you might find of interest.

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/conditions/osteoarthritis/

and

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/living-with-arthritis/cost-of-living/

Please keep posting and let us know how you are getting on with your OA

With best wishes

Peter (Moderator)