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”ammo“ .,. a .. .. . g“ mum-s ills-ii kilclitmerloai cum @ 519â€"571-2828 Gettm‘ g her h'fe back ' O O O . Arthritis treatment gives Waterloo woman new sense of purpose BYhmtshclsou tern mistakenly attacks healthy tis- had to give up her job at the 7 (Thmnldfw sue. primarily the lining of the region. Goodale spent a total of ‘ joints and sometimes other inter- seven years on disability while twasn‘t long ago that Ann (itxydale nal organs such as the eyes. heart struggling with the disease. zh Iwould look at a set of stairs and and lungs. causing joint pain. it also had a profound impact ~ . wonder how she would ever get It can occur at any age, but is on her daughter. Amy, who down them. more common in middle-aged worried about her mother’s health. 2 ~(letting up is easy. it‘s getting women. and about one in 100 Eventually she tried her ’ down a set of stairs that's difficult.“ Canadians have RA. according to Methotrexate. developed in the she explains. “it takes a lot more the Arthritis Society of Canada. l950s as a form of chemotherapy ! joints and a lot more balance and a RA usually affects joints on both but in low doses has also been 3 lot more everything.” sides of the body equally, with found to be an effective treatment ;, Twenty years ago (ioodale wrists. fingers. knees. feet and ofautoirnmune diseases. , ' "’ 3 ‘E,.,. ., never thought she would live a ankles the most commonly affectâ€" in l994 her secondth left ».;“_ f." 31? normal live again after suffering ed areas The disease begins slowly. her â€" “He didn‘t sign up for me get- ' 5. y“ 7‘s“ w 3 from a debilitating bout of usually with only minor joint pain, tingso sick. i don’t blame him." she ._ _ my” t '_~' j {if rheumatoid arthritis (RA). a dis- stiffness and fatigue, and the cans- said â€" and Goodale said she spent 31" l: _ a, -_.«~t case that sent herlife spiraling into esare unknown. much of her days juugettingby. J . , - my . r if» ”w?“ an endless cycle of pain and Complications from the disease “Pain is very tiring. You never . > eff g.,.~ -. ', a»; {M exhaustion. can include damage to the lung . really sleep soundly and you're 5 ~ “if”; _"- fig. 1 he; (“gaffe ‘ After moving to the region in tissue (known as rheumatoid doped up on Tylenol andlylenol3 ' \‘\\££1;§‘.. ' -- 3' . f. M 19m. the divorced mother of one all the time." . _. _;"&*~7s3~" ; ’“ , . 3? fill-fl? A” , put herself through Conestoga in 200i her life took another .. (if; i ; ' . ' College and graduated with hon- .. - unexpected tum when ahecut her- 35,17 gag; ' f w; . «s " f}: v.“ ours in civil engineering technolo» For thefirst ”me self while making Amy's prom f'_ 5.11}??? ‘ y 3.” l 7' gy at the top of her class. in almost 20 years dress. Since her medication effec- ‘;~ "17 gar]? g; 3 J She immediately landed a com I l h h tively shut down her immune sys- ' p . 7 333? a, “2-3! ‘ tract job with a local consulting S ept t mag tern. Goodale developed a serious 51" .-j-'\.s ~ “it: ', in . ,_ . .- ' . ' . firm and a year later was hired to the night." infection in her left arm that doc- ' {113 4 m“ " .» work for the Region of Waterloo as tors were worried would spread to 7' -‘ 3 ‘ A ' ’ , 3“ a roadway designer. and by 1989 mm“ her heart. ‘ 3 _, . 7. . ~ she had remarried. After three weeks of antibiotic - ' twat?» (if! . “I graduated with honours. l lung). increased risk of hardening treatment the infection was under “if ' had a job right out of school. and of the arteries, inflammation of control. but as Goodale describes 33. life was really good.” Goodale blood vessels. which can lead to H3 “all hell broke loose' as her 3 _ recalled while sittin in a clinic at skin. nerve. heart and brain prob~ immune system tried to contain _ , . , , 525 Belmont St. in gitchener with lems. Swelling and inflammation the infection and she was back to Ann 60°43“ has finally found pain ”I” after she was diagnosed mm an intravenous in her left aims of the outer lining of the heart and the "screaming pain" she had rheumatord 3mm“ 20 years ago. Ms “Kw“ mm The drip next to her delivers the the heart muscle can also lead to experienced before. , . , _ , pain-fighting drug that has given congestive heart failure. At this time Dr. inchead decid- landed an engineering lOb' “m m dating'a man for about ”can and her a new lease on life. Four months after seeing her ed she would be a good candidate Guelph and now f“ Accumetal the pair love to snowmobile. The pain started in I992 when doctor (ioodale met with rheuma- for a new drug called Remicade, Manufacturing inc. ‘“ S‘m‘f°m~ She also has a one-year-old ( ioodalc awoke one morning to tologist lohn lochead and he diag~ which was just finishing clinical Her employer covers all of the granddaughter and another grand,- lind her feet had become red and nosed her with M trials in Canada. The drug works by C05“ for her drugs ' about 531500 Chm 0" the way. The fact she “int swollen. making it hurt to walk. Goodale suffers from seronega- blocking the production of a criti~ per "C?““QN ‘ that she receives and to cm“ 0" the ground w‘th "It was the strangest damn tive RA. meaning it does not cal protein that causes joint pain. every “Si“ weeks at the CI'mC 0“ her granddaughter. f" walk down thing.“ she said. appear in blood tests. Seronegative inflammation and damage. Belmont Street._ 3 another set Of stairs. ‘9 liberating. She made an appointment with RA is much rarer but also less Her daughter came with her for (soodale said she PM“! when Perhaps the biggest lesson she her doctor. who suggested she was destructive than seropositive RA. the first treatment almost a decade she 8°! the letter “Y"‘S she ha? has learned is not to take life for merely retaining water, After a which does appear in blood tests. ago at St. Mary's Hospital. been accepted "110 hill employers granted. ‘ ' _ blood it's! and other tests ruled She began taking the steroidal "it was like someone turned off drugplan after spendingyearsdip- Go out and h“? Were all gotng that out. the next sentence from drug Prcdnisone. along with anti- a light switch." said Goodale of the ng "it" retirement “d borrow- to d'f- and we dont know_when or his mouth would prove to be malarial drugs and other experi- relief she fell within hours of the mg against her home to pay for h“ how she 53“! Wk“? “HTS there prophetic. mental treatments. gm treatment. medication. . is still one actrvrty she isnt up to “lie said ‘Thank (‘md it's not Nothing worked. “For the first time in almost 20 U9" like I had W0“ the lottery "if?“ , . . _ rheumatoid arthritis.” The pain in her shoulders was years i slept through the nigh.” Now 55' 0006319 is livmg the ldont think 1 want ‘0 skydive. RA is an autoimmune disease. so had it kept her from sleeping That treatment turned her life "I” was “Ole" from her for she-said. , 3 3, meaning the body's immune sys» most nights and she eventually entire life around. Shortly after, she nearly “V0 deeldee. She has been lm temfied ofheights. . . ' um “Qt.- ' 0 w my AWARD ’ . ‘ GlNAS ME ,, 4: :'-=‘ 3 ..... “ a " Gina's has the medispa semces you need 7‘. ‘ , . ; deswe, including our medical certified practlu- , u . 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