She is also the co-author of the book, “Sex Interrupted: Igniting Intimacy While Living With Illness or Disability
And most of the time, they were questions about sex and intimacy
I have to admit, though, that my wife has told me many times that: Look, you know, the first child, we went through a lot to conceive. The second child we’re like, “Oh my gosh, this is a miracle.” But by the third child, my wife told me, “I don’t care what other procedures you need to get done. There’s one you’re getting done before you come anywhere near me.” (laughing)
So, we’re good, as a family of five. We’ve been actively involved with the Arthritis Foundation for a number of years. It’s just really been an incredible asset for me, personally, to be able to share not just my story, but to meet so many other arthritis warriors from all across the country. And I’m really excited to be a part of the podcast with you today.
Rebecca Gillett: One of the things that I think your story highlighted for me when I first heard about it was that, you know, oftentimes we’re talking about family planning and things like that. And we’re only thinking about women, we’re not really thinking about men and how they, too, have to get off medications. I think that male perspective gets lost because there are a lot of men with arthritis and those that are on biologics who have to think about that.
And when it was done, no matter what the topic, there was always somebody who came back to me with some questions
This is a really important conversation for us to have. And I’m super excited that we have two wonderful guest experts in the world of rheumatology.
Pete Scalia: Yeah. Our first guest is Victoria Ruffing. And Victoria’s the director of patient education at Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center in Baltimore, Maryland. And she’s a founding member and a past president of the Rheumatology Nurses Society. (more…)