RA Post: cold

I had a cold or something part of the week. Made me so sick. Getting a cold is the worstwith RA. The RA is much worse with any other sickness. Ever have a toothache? Then have the toothache plus a flu or something. It's really a blast. 
Thankfully I am somewhat on the mend. Today I went with my sister to the local thrift store. Had a nice time visiting.      Now I am exhausted after shopping and driving. 
I am nearly at two years of waking up with a uti and what felt like glass shards in my feet...within hours it was my hands. Then the nausea began to build until i just couldn't work. Everyone day was a day as long as I could stand the building nausea.     
Honestly I remember life before this misery as a book. I hardly remember what it was like to be normal, to work and whatnot.  The idea of not being ill, having about four hours of day for activity people would expect of someone my age, seems correct, that this is the normal for everyone. How can anyone be not sick?
I wish I remembered better when I wasn't sick...just seems like now being sick is all their i for existence.