It was a dream come true for me to personally meet Christine after reading “The Spoon Theory” a little over a year ago. It was one Sunday morning when my adult daughter, Carly carried in her laptop to the kitchen table where I was reading the Sunday paper and told me to read “The Spoon Theory.
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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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IN Honor of Mother's Day in the US, my mother wrote this article about being a mom of a child with Lupus. My daughter Christine has had Lupus, with the accompanying vast array of symptoms, since she was 15 years old. During college, in her attempt to explain her illness, she wrote about Lup
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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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