Back in June I received a facebook message that changed my life. My friend from high school, Jessica Glazer, sent me the following: “I have an idea I want to talk to you about. I was thinking of having a party to raise money to contribute to your Lupus fundraising efforts. It could be a pla
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It didn’t seem that long ago that I was right there in her Converses, thinking that life would surely end if “that guy” didn’t like me back, or if I didn’t make the cheerleading squad. It’s amazing that when you are a pre-teen, embarking on those formidable years that I found out later m
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I just published an amazing article written by a guest writer Rebecca Geraghty. I must admit, that after doing my last read of the article, I am crying. I am 32 and my daughter will be 3 very soon. I wonder if my daughter will have the same thoughts of the author? I wonder what she will grow to know
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Being a daughter of a Lupus patient is a unique way to grow up. I do not have the disease myself, but experienced many of its effects through my mother. She was diagnosed when I was a year old, and lived with Lupus until last June when she passed away. I was twenty-two years old when she died,
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May is Lupus Awareness Month! How Will You Spread Awareness? My daughter Christine has a tee shirt with the above logo emblazened on it, and I have always disliked the crudeness of that phrase. Every time she wore that shirt I would wince and tell her how I hated that expression, but she would just
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