Life Changing Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Sophie shares how juvenile rheumatoid arthritis has changed her life.

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I can’t even remember my life without arthritis. I have had it since I was six. So it used to just bother me through sports and sometimes walking when I had flare-ups, but now it affects my life all the time, and mostly it affects my life through mobility and how I walk.
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