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Leslie Hunt talks Lyrics, Life, and Lupus with ButYouDontLookSick.com

May is Lupus Awareness Month! How Will You Spread Awareness?

Leslie Hunt talks Lyrics, Life, and Lupus with ButYouDontLookSick.com

Leslie Hunt has been performing as a musician since childhood. By the age of thirteen, Leslie had starred in productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Music Man” and performed on stage with Kenny Rogers. You may remember Leslie from American Idol Season 6 (2007), but you may not know that at the age of seven, Leslie was diagnosed with Lupus SLE .

Christine Miserandino, a fellow Lupus patient, member of the Lupus Alliance of America Board of Directors, and founder of ButYouDontLookSick.com, was eager to interview Leslie and learn more about this bright young woman who lives life to the fullest and refuses to let Lupus stop her from achieving her goals.

What began as an interview soon felt like a discussion between two old friends.

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Interview: Jenni from ChronicBabe.com

Jenni Prokopy is founder and editrix of ChronicBabe.com, an online resource for young women with chronic illness. An award-winning writer, speaker, and expert on healthy living, she shares her personal experience - and rallies the expertise of hundreds of others - to help women live beyond their illness and be total Babes. Her writing has appeared in more than 100 publications, and she has worked with dozens of organizations large and small, local and multinational, to create compelling messages that empower people to work better, play harder… and be their best. Her site offers hundreds of resources, including a free biweekly enewsletter and other free goodies for subscribers.

Christine Miserandino of ButYouDontLookSick.com had an opportunity to speak with Jenni recently about her blog and her invisible illness.

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Interview: Kerri Morrone from SixUntilMe.com

During my pregnancy I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. After getting a glimpse of what life would be like having diabetes, I found Kerri Morrone's website. Kerri is a fellow health blogger that I admire and respect. She has a great attitude towards living with diabetes, and a writing style that is addictive. I thought the butyoudontlooksick.com readers would have fun learning a bit more about our "new friend".

** Note from Christine: Today is World Diabetes Day! This interview was originally published last year. But Since I admire and respect Kerri's work in the Diabetes community so much, I felt it was worth re-publishing. (She has since been married and is up to great things. Be sure to check out her site!)

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Interview: Dr. Nicholas Genes MD, PhD

After recently getting involved with "Grand Rounds" (The weekly round up of the best medical blogs on the web) I wanted to take the opportunity to get to know Dr. Nicholas Genes, the founder and maintainer of Grand rounds and Blogborygmi a bit more.

Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD, is a resident in the Emergency Medicine program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree in science from Brown University, where he first developed his interests in medicine, research, and writing. After college, he enrolled in the MD/PhD program at the University of Massachusetts, pursuing a medical degree while studying chondrocyte mechanotransduction in Dr. Charles Vacanti's laboratory for tissue engineering. In the course of writing a freelance article, he discovered the world of medical Weblogs, and he has been active in this nascent community ever since.

Thanks to Nick for answering some of our questions!

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Interview: Daniel J. Vance, writer of the weekly column "Disabilities"

Christine from butyoudontlooksick.com had the pleasure of interviewing Daniel J. Vance, writer of the weekly column "Disabilities".

I had the chance to first talk with Daniel when he interviewed me in March of 2006 for his column. Since this year celebrates his fifth year of writing the column, I figured we would help him celebrate by getting to know him better.

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Interview: ButYouDontLookSick.com Message Board Administrator - Wendy aka "Beautifulbigblonde"

We at ButYouDontLookSick.com have been blessed to have so many wonderful, helpful and dedicated volunteers. One of our first and best volunteers is Wendy aka "Beautifulbigblonde" on our message boards. She has helped us build a friendly community and a safe place to chat and post. We could not have done it without her. In this interview we take the opportunity to get to know her better.

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