Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 12 Explain Chronic illness to someone he...

In this video, I try to describe what a day with chronic illness is like. Click "play."

Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 11 Why do you think you have this illness?

Today's prompt:  Why do you think you have this illness?

Lupus Awareness Challenge Day 8 | Where do you see yourself 5 years from...

Where do I see myself in 5 years?  Click play.

Lupus Awareness Challenge Day 9 | What alternative remedies have you tried?

In  this video, I describe many alternative remedies, ranging from essential oils to herbal remedies, that I use on a daily basis to make my life with chronic illness easier.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to post them below and I will answer them in a timely fashion.

Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 10 What makes your life with chronic ill...

In this video, I give 20 tips on what makes my life with chronic illness easier.

Lupus Awareness Challenge Day 7 | What was your biggest realization sinc...

Day 7 of the Lupus and Chronic Illness Awareness Challenge

There are 3 main realizations that I had since being diagnosed with lupus and other chronic illnesses:

Lupus and Chronic Illness Awareness Challenge | Day 6 Message to my younger self, pre chroni...

I've got good news and bad news.

You will become chronically ill.  It will come on slowly with minor symptoms and you will dismiss them.  Then all of a sudden your life will change.



Here's what I have to say....

Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 5 How does Chronic Illness make you feel?

How Does Chronic Illness Make you Feel?

There are two approaches to answering this question:

• How it makes you fell physically
• How it makes you feel emotionally

The toll that chronic illness takes on the body, physically, includes:

• fatigue
• pain

The toll that it takes, emotionally includes:

• depression
• frustration
• anger
• feelings of worthlessness
• feelings of brokenness
• concern
• guilt
• isolation

Chronic illness is a full-time job. So much time is spent:

• charting symptoms
• going to doctors or specialists
• getting blood work done
• keeping a log of what we eat

Lupus Awareness Challenge Day 4 How did your friends and family react to...

Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 3 How did you get to your diagnosis?

Lupus Awareness Challenge Day 2 | How Has Lupus and Chronic Illness Aff...

We take so much for granted that we can easily forget how fortunate we are. We only have the one shot at this life and throughout our existence we have to make choices on how we use and live it.

Lupus Awareness Challenge | Day 1 Introduction and Diagnoses