Ever so often, I get asked if my doodles are a way of expressing my anger towards RA. The answer is NO. I have a disease of the joints – read swollen fingers, locked wrists and aching elbows. If it was anger that was driving me, I would have just ranted to my friends and not chosen something that would cause me more discomfort. The motivation to pick up the pen with an aching wrist cannot come from anger. It comes from HOPE! Hope and positivity are my biggest weapons against RA and that is exactly what is translated into my sketches. And funnily this process is the exact opposite of auto immune - every sketch gives me more power and every like, more strength to keep fighting!