I am proud to announce my upcoming memoir: Meet My Rheummate. (I’m still working out the subtitle.) Below is the introduction to my memoir, the first time it is being presented to the world in honor of this day that means so much to me. I now present to you: Meet My Rheummate. When I was eighteen, I met my Rheummate.  It wasn’t my idea at all. In fact I was rather insistent that I didn’t need a Rheummate in my life.  For the past decade this Rheummate has frustrated me, brought me to tears, been a source of embarrassment…