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.
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 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 »
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 »
Looking back on my life, I distinctly see times where I experienced lupus flares and remissions, despite a lack of a proper lupus diagnosis. The flares always involved a visit… Read more »