Today is the official day on my calendar marking the winter solstice for the earth’s northern hemisphere. Today is the single day in the year when the entire earth and its north pole are the farthest away from the sun in its orbit. For sun intolerant lupus patients, today is technically the single day all [...]
Labor Day means picnics, grilling in the park, volleyball, softball, children laughing and fun with family. However, with Lupus, a day in the park, basking in the last of the summer’s heat, takes on new challenges. So, the family set up a shade canopy in the double-shading of the biggest trees, surrounded by a ring [...]
How much sun is too much for a lupus patient? I have heard that 15 minutes per day is pretty much the maximum daily sun any wise lupus patient should absorb. However, what about little snippets of sunshine, spread out throughout a single day? Do they count? I recently learned the hard way how important [...]
I have always been fond of nature, but would not describe myself as a nature nut. When you cannot spend more than 15 minutes in the sun without aggravating lupus, its kind of difficult to enjoy the great outdoors, unless you are willing to sit by a lake braving the mosquitoes and gnats to go [...]
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