B.C. Olympic snowboarder opens up about life with rheumatoid arthritis

Canadian two-time Olympic snowboarder Spencer O’Brien was considered a top medal contender heading into her first Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
About a year before the Games, at age 25, she suddenly found herself in chronic pain all over her body, barely able to walk down the stairs let alone snowboard competitively.
The two-time World Champion and 2016 X Games Gold Medalist was then, just a few months before the Games, diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. RA is an autoimmune disease tha