Tag Archives: Ankylosing Spondylitis

It's Time To Walk!

Photo by Hamed Saber TODAY IS THE DAY! IT’S TIME TO START STEPPIN’! It’s that time of year again…it is WALK YOUR AS OFF! W is for Waiting. It’s so hard to wait for the event to begin on April 1, 2016. A is for Awareness. That’s why we count our steps and promote this […]

My Story – by Bret (Part 1)

HLA-B27 – These used to be just letters and numbers to me. But these numbers have changed my life in a blink of an eye, as they have yours, and YOU ARE NOT ALONE. And if this blood test is positive, we both have Ankylosing Spondylitis. It is a horrible autoimmune system disease that attacks […]

Calling All Team Captains

Hi! My name is Bree Trejo, and I’m Team Captain of Perseverance Warriors. I’m also serving as the Lead Team Captain for Walk Your AS Off 2016. If you’re thinking of captaining a Walk Your AS Off team this year, or you’re looking for ways to bring your team together to Walk AS One, I’ve […]

Walk AS One World Cup: An Interview with the Winners – reFUSE to Lose

This year was the very first Walk AS One World Cup! There were two separate categories in this years cup, which were for the total number of team steps, and the total average steps per walker. I got in touch with Jessica Cuccio, the team captain of reFUSE to Lose, and winners of this years total […]

And the 2015 Walk AS One World Cup Goes To…

What a year we’ve had!   Congratulations to our first ever winners of the Walk AS One World Cup! Going forward we will hone in on our categories for these recognition awards as we get better at bringing in data from our teams. For this year we have awarded two cups based on the following […]

WYASO Round-Up Finale 2015

Welcome to the final round-up of the WYASO main event. We do hope you had a wonderful time participating in this years walk, and we hope you achieved your own personal goals too. We’d like to thank everyone for their hard work and dedication to raising awareness for AS. Without the support of each and […]

WYASO Round-Up: Week 3

Welcome to the third WYASO Round-Up. This is your chance to catch up on all the amazing things that the WYASO community have been up to in the last week. If you didn’t catch our other round-ups, you can read week one and week two by clicking on the links. The LOVE Run in Taipei – The Walking Spondies […]

WYASO Round-Up – Week 2

Welcome to the second WYASO Round-Up. This is your chance to catch up on all the amazing things that the WYASO community have been up to in the last week. So with out further ado, we’ll jump straight to it. World Autoimmune Arthritis Day 2015 WAAD2015 is a global online nonprofit car race around the […]

Coping with Grief and AS

I was planning on writing about how people with chronically painful illnesses are dimensional and should not only be viewed through the lens of their disease…and it would have been a mighty post and it would have inspired many, but in fact, that’s not my mindset right now. Right now I am in grieving. I […]

WYASO Round-Up – Week 1

Welcome to the first round-up of the WYASO main event. The round-up is our way of sharing what others in the WYASO community are sharing and talking about. If you would like your blog post / video / newspaper article to be featured on the next round-up, please can you send us the link via email […]