Tale of a Biologic: 17 Years of Injections...
Hello my fellow readers! It's Trevor here once again, to share our monthly tale. This one is going to be extra special, folks! Yesterday, which was Friday the 13th, do we have anyone superstitious reading this? BOL This day and date, 17 years ago, turned out to be a day that Brenda was offered a life changing experience. Of special note, it was also Good Friday that year in 2001. As you know, Brenda has lived with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for almost 27 years. Almost 10 years after living with it, she had a conversation with her PCP, as she was not seeing a rheumatologist at the time. Their attitude in the beginning, was that Brenda was going to get worse and her disease would progress. Just what you want to hear, right? She couldn't deal with that negative thinking, so she was at this time, only going to her PCP. Back to our story. She told him that she was ready to consider starting a biologic. In this case, it would be the first one, which was FDA approved in 1998. Enb...