Small Joints, Big Fight: Juvenile Arthritis Family Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe juvenile idiopathic arthritis, told by parents, siblings, grandparents, young patients, adults who grew up with it, and the clinicians who care for them. Writers describe the time before the word arthritis: the limp on waking, the swollen knee blamed on a fall, the toddler who would not be put down, the fevers and rash of systemic JIA, and the appointments where a parent was made to feel anxious. Then learning the language: methotrexate and the night after it, folic acid, the injections a child has to be persuaded to accept, and the biologics that transformed outcomes. Writers describe mornings and school days, physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, sport negotiated rather than abandoned, and the eyes — the uveitis screening that saves sight and is so easily missed. Later chapters hold the families for whom nothing worked quickly, and the long view from twenty years on.

Who it's for

For families newly facing a JIA diagnosis, parents managing methotrexate and injections, teachers and coaches, and adults who grew up with childhood arthritis.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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