by admin | Apr 16, 2024 | Article
Earlier this year my life was altered by lupus. In January I had my first full-blown flare. At this point, I wasn’t even diagnosed yet. I had a fever that lasted for more than a few days. One of the lymph nodes around my jaw was swollen. I had chills and night sweats...
by admin | Apr 16, 2024 | Article
“I have lupus but lupus does not have me” – the phrase I adopted after my deep depression three years after my lupus diagnosis in 2010. I was 25. Two years before that, while in nursing school in Florida, I was in and out of the hospital for migraines, low iron...
by admin | Apr 15, 2024 | Article
Greetings everyone, a new year begins! As a teacher for over thirty years, I’ve given countless lessons to my students. But none compares to the one I’ve learned from my brave daughter Victoria who was diagnosed with lupus in 2021. When we know better, we do better. I...
by admin | Apr 15, 2024 | Article
Greetings everyone, a new year begins! I am glad to have the opportunity to share my lupus journey. I was diagnosed 30 years ago. Prior to this diagnosis, I had many difficult and mysterious symptoms. As I have read and heard from others with lupus, this is not an...
by admin | Apr 15, 2024 | Article
One week before the pandemic began in 2020, I was diagnosed with lupus. The story started when I woke up one morning to swollen and sore fingers. At the time of my diagnosis, I was a stay at home mother of two little children. Waking with swollen joints was something...
