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I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

Don't look at your legs and think: 'They're fat.' Think: 'These things carry me around all day, and I don't have arthritis. Oh, and I've got great ankles.'

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.