i struggle with this too. we’re doing all we can do to avoid that fate!!!

RA treatments have come a long way in even just the last 10 years. I've had RA for 13 years. 50 years ago I would have been unable to work and sometimes bedridden. As it stands I am able to live a normal life 85% of the time and can still manage through most flares. If we have come that far in such a short amount of time, think where we will be in the next ten years!

I go on and off worrying about that… I’m a teacher and I flare BAD at the beginning of every school year, and I wonder if and when I will start needing mobility aids, or become clinically disabled. But the flare passes, and I am currently trying not to plan out the future too intensely.