I apologize for my lengthy leave of absence on my blog. There has been dissention in my body – lupus complications plague me. I’m running on a lupus hamster wheel (and not losing any weight in the process – thank you very much).
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 haven’t written for a while and I apologize. Lupus dominated my life over the past couple of months. The physical and emotional stress all culminated into a lupus meltdown.
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.)
Hopefully, one day there will be a cure for lupus and the lupus loop will dissolve forever. Until then, please hold onto hope with me, & let lupus loop-us.
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.
I entered the courthouse, filed into the mandatory security screening. Then I was shocked silent from the verbal brutality. (It is my private business that I have a lupus handicap.)
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).
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 »