A Young Wife’s Tale

*Did you know David doesn’t wear a wedding ring? I bought him a white gold band when we got married. He lost it within a few months. We bought a cheap replacement band made of tungsten, but he never wears it. He says it bothers his hands. It’s strange to me because he never mentions his hands hurting. The joints that bother him the most are his vertebra, hips, knees and wrists. He does have psoriatic arthritis in every joint in his body, except his shoulders, but his hands are still stronger than mine. He opens jars for me all the time.

David has psoriatic arthritis. He was diagnosed a year ago, at age 23. The rheumatologist thinks he should go into remission. It could be today, it could be next year. There’s no time frame. The arthritis is quite a strain on our marriage…