Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms such as aching joints meant musician Rain Perry could no longer play her guitar. But instead of singing the blues about her rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, the songbird chose to look on the bright side of life with RA. From help from her family to staying active, here's how she copes...
At age 22, singer-songwriter Rain Perry was dreaming of superstardom.
But her guitar-playing hopes were suddenly dashed by inexplicable pain in her hips, knees, wrists and hands.
Several blood tests, X-rays and consultations later, she got a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis.
The chronic, progressive inflammatory disease causes pain and swelling in joints and meant that Perry had to hang up her guitar.
"I was shocked, scared and sad," she says.
Instead of giving up, however, she kept writing and became an advocate for people with arthritis.
In 2000, she produced "Agility: A Woman's Music Festival to Benefit the Arthritis Foundation."
Several albums later, her song "Beautiful Tree" was picked as the theme for "Life Unexpected," a 2010 TV series on The CW network.
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