Coping with Lupus: People with lupus are usually encouraged to engage in appropriate daily exercise to keep up muscle and bone strength. Exercise is not intuitive for those with auto-immune health challenges like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis or fibromyalgia. Waking up each morning with joint stiffness and pain, the first thought on my mind is definitely [...]
As a lupus patient, it was relief to finally have a reason for my flawed short-term memory. There is a great blog all about forgetting things, that casts a humorous glance at the challenges of remembering simple things on Post-it-Note posts at http://thingsweforget.blogspot.com/. Today’s health writer’s challenge suggests making a post-it-note of my own, to [...]
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 [...]
April’s 30-day health writer challenge has added an interesting twist by suggesting a new concept to springboard each day’s blog post. I was afraid I could not write a post every day for a whole month, and thought I would run out of ideas. I almost didn’t agree to do it, because I feared I [...]
A few years ago was one of those absolutely ideal days that take your breath away and become timeless memories in the patchwork of life. The day was in mid September, on my husband’s birthday, when the blistering heat of Arizona summer still gripped the Phoenix valley and surrounding cement jungle like a sweltering heavy [...]
Today is Easter Sunday! My thoughts are focused completely away from my Lupus, and onto the silent conversation going on today in my heart. Easter is not originally about bunny rabbits and Easter eggs, although they are certainly a colorful and fun part of many modern-day Easter observances. Today, I am looking forward to an [...]
Every day is a new beginning. No matter what yesterday holds, be it pain, illness, sorrow, bankruptcy or other difficulty or challenges, each new day is a new adventure and fresh opportunity. Each dawn is a new beginning. Each tomorrow promises us a fresh start at beginning the rest of our life. With lupus, we [...]
If asked what superpower ability, like the comic book characters of Superman and Wonder Woman, I would wish to have, what would that be, and why would I want that special ability? This is difficult! Being such a realist, this potential flight of fancy really stretches me. But, determined to meet the health writer’s 30 [...]
Here I sit on a Sunday morning, trying to overcome the aftermath of a tenacious case of bronchitis. Ordinarily, my Sunday morning battle would be my lupus, trying to get coherent mentally and physically functioning enough to get to 8:10 a.m. choir practice at church, a 9:00 Sunday School class followed by a morning worship [...]
Lupus has been an unwelcome companion in my health journey for many, many years now. Over time, my innate enthusiasm for greeting each morning was gradually eroded, and even more so as my lupus marched seemingly ever on in its escalating attack against connective tissues. However, after many cycles of ups and downs, an irrefutable [...]
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