Wow!! I'm in the magazine..

HI all,

Some of you advised me to try and get my poem put into the NRAS magazine, remember the one I did a few months ago on being "normal"

Well, I sent it to Emma and guess what? it's in the new Autumn Magazine.I got mine this morning! I'm so chuffed!!

Thanks for your support everybody.

If you want to read it it's on the very last page, "Normal To Me"

Thanks you also to NRAS for putting my poem in the magazine.

Mand xx

[Katy-NRAS]

HI Mand,

You're most welcome.

We thought that it was a lovely edition to the magazine. Any others would certainly be most welcome

Katy

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Thank you katy,

I was so thrilled when I saw it in the magazine this morning, I'd actually forgotten all about the poem.

Mand xx

[rheumatoidymummy]

I saw that poem in the mag and thought it was brilliant - well done mand.

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well done mand.. havent had time to read mag yet.. today was a blur of various appointments.. so much for a day off.. working tomorrow. will read it before bed xx

[Hidden]

Ah yes, I saw this this morning - well done!

Cece x

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congratulations Mand - fantastic to get your poem in print, shows how good it is. Well done.

[Hidden]

Well done, fantastic poem and maybe if family/friends read it they would have better understanding x

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I think so too, it's a way of explaining RA I suppose from a personal point of view.

I know everything I said in that poem affects us all one way or another, so sad really.

Take care

mand xx

[Marnie87]

Hi mand, can you please re type it out so I can have a read??

Also I've been trying to upload my picture but my pc jus won't do it. Will keep on trying though x

[bpeal1]

I read the poem in the NRAS magazine yesterday and thought it was brilliant. I could identify with lots of it. Well done.

Becky

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I came home to my first NRAS magazine waiting for me and found your poem very moving. Why didn't you put your name to it Mand - it's so good and you are obviously very proud of it - Now you have revealed your stunning looks to us all on this site sure you should put your name to your poem also? Well done anyway!

Tilda x

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HI Tilda, I had no problem with them putting my name to it they just never asked, to be honest I was also surprised to see Anon.

Never mind, I know it was me who wrote and so does everyone on here as I put it into a Blogg at first.

Hope your still feeling better.

Take care

mand xx

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Ah so I'm glad to learn you weren't being falsely modest then Mands - you deserve a credit of course - but then I'm an artist and infrequent writer/ poet too so I get a bit fussed about credits when I think they're due. Everyone who knows you on this site knows it's yours as you say and that's the main thing.

I'm good still - feel so lucky and appreciating every minute believe me. Strangely I feel very confident it's on the wain during the day time but at night much less confident because I often wake with joint pains and stiffness still. But hopefully that and the overwhelming tiredness are just an echo and aftermath of some great hormonal /meonopausal splurge that will one day be a distant memory. I got my appointments for gynae and rheumy both in first week of November - on the 2nd anniversary of my mum's death so here's to hoping they will be brief and positive and I'll be all clear on both fronts by thenl. Here's to aspiring to "normal" again for us all.

Take care you too

Tilda xx

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Well done you!