Reason #5 Why Alexander Hamilton Hates Arthritis: Arthritis is an unavoidable ill (if you have it)

Alexander Hamilton is credited with the following quote: "We must make the most of those ills which cannot be avoided."

If you've got arthritis -- and 46 million people in the United States do -- arthritis is an ill which cannot be avoided. Unfortunately, if you or someone you love doesn't have arthritis, it's a itty bitty little benign-seeming pest that is all too easily avoided. Sure, we do our best to make the most of this ill: We take our medicines, and we keep ourselves active, and we take days off when we need to (nourishing ourselves on a diet of mutton and oranges, natch), and we make up funny arthritis jokes to keep ourselves laughing. But that doesn't mean we don't think of a day when arthritis is a curable disease.

If you think that arthritis ought to be an avoidable ill, or at least a curable one, you might want to throw a Hamilton-adorned 10-spot at the problem: Visit my secure website to make your contribution. Every $10 donation helps to assuage the bitter contempt Alexander Hamilton (the real one) holds for rheumatological diseases, even from beyond the grave.