I’m a pretty easy going person, most of the time, and unless I’m crossed with stupidity. Enter the diagnosis of Nirupa Jugmohan. When she was first diagnosed with lupus, she didn’t have a clue what it was. She understood it had something to do with her immune system. She also understood she had approximately 4… Read More Four and Twenty Years, A Death Sentence, and Common Sense
And I’m not talking about working ourselves to exhaustion up to the age of retirement and then being too tired to enjoy the rest of our lives. What I’m speaking about is much worse. When people ask you how you’re feeling, do you respond, “I’m okay, just tired?” Well, did you know you are doing… Read More Let’s Retire Tired
As a child, like most children, I had a hero. He was a man. I followed John Glenn first and then all the other astronauts up until Neil Armstrong took that first important leap for mankind. I remember being angry when Sally Ride was the first woman in outer space. That what who I was… Read More A Hero Is Born and Recognized
I hear it everyday. The whining. The poor pitiful mes. The moaning about the pain. The stories of how their life sucks. How hard it is. How nobody cares. The stories of how they had to go to the emergency room because they hurt. You know what? Everyone on this earth hurts. No one is… Read More I Am Blessed
If you live in an area that has limited access to care by a rheumatologist for your lupus, help and good news are in the works. The ACR (American College of Rheumatology) who formed the TLI (The Lupus Initiative) announced the award of a one-year, $500,000 grant from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) to… Read More The Lupus Initiative
