Today is the last day of my thirty-day health writer’s challenge, and I have enjoyed this! To finish off the month, I created a Word Cloud at the Wordle site from terms used throughout this blog. During May 2012, it will be Lupus Awareness Month, and the Lupus Foundation of America and its many health [...]
Today’s health writer thirty-day challenge is to create and share a Mad Lib zany poem. To do so required filling in the blanks with various parts of speech that somehow might describe lupus, or relate to it. Coming up with 10 adjectives, 6 verbs, 6 adverbs, conjunctions and prepositions was too taxing of a mental [...]
Several days in a row, and this is newsworthy! Very recently I have seen signs of my lupus quieting, especially at both ends of the day. Recently, it has been possible to count about 10 successive days of awaking feeling relatively well. Lupus brain fog has been much lighter than normal, joint stiffness has been [...]
Today is October 4th, and exactly five weeks and five days after my first Benlysta infusion for my lupus. Even though I have had some thoroughly exhausting activity over the past week, it seems many of the recent mornings are still showing a slight glimmer of improvement. It may be too soon to tell, and [...]
It is no secret that lupus and mornings are somewhat incompatible. If we could simply skip them, most of us lupus patients would opt out. However, mornings just have a habit of returning on a daily basis! There is no way out of them but to sleep or muddle through them. However, most working people [...]
It is a painful, slow-moving Sunday morning for me, but I am praising God today! After months of insurance appeals, my infusions start on Aug. 26th of the first new FDA approved lupus drug in over 50 years, Benlysta. Cancer chemo drugs that helped for 10 years stopped when lupus attacked my liver six years [...]
On cloudy and overcast days, my lupus wakes me up differently than on sunny days. On these days, my first awakening awareness is pain in my limbs. Symptoms of lupus arthritis, such as joint pain, stiffness, warmth, joint redness and swelling are experienced by most lupus patients. Symptoms tend to be more intense in the morning, and usually improve [...]
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