FOR Goran Ostovich*, just driving his delivery van was a daily agony. The painful swelling in his hands, wrists and elbows made it nearly impossible to grip and turn the wheel – never mind loading and unloading the produce his van carried. The drugs that he had taken for years to alleviate his rheumatoid arthritis didn't help much. He had reluctantly abandoned his favourite sport, ping pong. He stopped working. The final cruelty was when he could no longer lift his young children or play with them.