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“My Crazy Aunt Sue” Transcript
The strongest person I know cannot peel a potato. The strongest person I know has trouble putting on
her makeup. The strongest person I know needs a special key holder to turn the key in her car’s ignition.
For the past fifteen years, my 47-year-old aunt Sue has been living with rheumatoid arthritis, a painfully
debilitating disease in which the joints of the body become intensely inflamed due to the immune
system’s activity. Yet despite the daily torments of this disease, my aunt Sue is stronger than any woman
or man I have ever met.
Not a moment passes that my aunt Sue is not confronted with this demon of a disease and reminded of
her disability through the pills she must take and the pain she must endure. It hurts to stand, it hurts to
walk, it hurts to sit.
At five feet two inches and 105 pounds, with the spunk of a teenager, she introduces herself as “Crazy
Sue”—and sometimes I’d have to agree with her. Somehow she is able to approach this demonic disease
with a sense of humor. And not just any sense of humor. My Aunt Sue is one of the funniest people I
know.
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