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Not to be the people in the joke, but I've got arthritis too and for me the missing piece was swimming. Much lower impact and localized pressure.
I love swimming for that reason yeah. I'd do it a lot more if I had easier access to a pool. I had been looking into places near me to go to but it's hard to find times that work for it. Might get a little easier once the kids are a little older and we could take them easier.
More importantly though, that's not being the people in the joke. It might not feel like it, but there is a big difference between seeing someone struggling with a limitation that you also struggle with and offering something that helped you, and someone who has no idea what you're going through pulling a suggestion out of their ass and making it sound easy. It hits different when your suggestion comes from a place of seeing a shared struggle and mentioning what helped you.