I’m honored to share a guest article written by Emily who has lupus. She authors a blog which she credits as being her “online diary of life with a chronic illness”. Emily’s fluid writing style reads as if she’s having a conversation with you. I admire her candidness about how lupus affects her life.
I want to share some happy lupus blog news with you and I promise to explain my reason why at the end of my article. (No cheating and scrolling to the end.)
My 2nd guest writer is a wife whose husband has lupus. She shares their emotionally moving journey that led to his diagnosis. While lupus effects mostly women, it’s important to know and spread the word that men can have lupus too.
The stickers and wires attached to my body made the landscape of my skin look like a colorful spider web.
I received an email announcing that my blog was chosen as one of the top 30 lupus blogs. Feeling dumbfounded is an understatement. You could have knocked me over with a feather (as one of my friends says).
I woke up with a romantic notion, feeling dared to find ways in which having lupus is not always a bad thing. Surely somewhere in this, or any chronic disease, there has to be a tiny bit of positivity.
My vision is a place where people with chronic illnesses can own homes and live among fellow spoonies. A spoonie community. A spoonity.
I’m jealous of a dog. Not just any dog, I’m jealous of my mom’s dog because her dog has lupus. Don’t bother beating me up with judgements of how pathetic… Read more »
May is lupus awareness month. Bringing publicity to lupus can make a difference in funding research and hopefully finding a cure. On a personal level, when is the right time to make others aware of your lupus?
It’s time for me to start sharing my lupus story. I have SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus, where my entire body is affected by this disease: skin, organs, kidneys (lupus nephritis),… Read more »