Getting Closer To Myself

Here’s a quick post about what’s new: 1. Check out my guest blog for National Chronic Invisible Illness Awareness Week . 2. “ Patients for...

I’ve gotten e-mails from multiple e-mail groups, listserves, and organizations about Benlysta. Other lupus bloggers are posting about it. ...

Thus far, in the process of studying for my preliminary examination (reading 125+ articles and book chapters (and there’s another 50+ to slo...

The third edition of “Patients for a Moment” is up at Duncan Cross . Be sure to check it out. Next week it will be hosted by Kairol Rosenth...

“[…] Drink to all that we have lost Mistakes we have made Everything will change […] - Gavin Rossdale, “Love Remains the Same” In reading “E...

In the words of Pat Benetar, “We are young, heartache to heartache we stand.” But illness, not love, is a battlefield… I’d be remiss if I sa...

I think, especially at this age, there is an inherent need, even when ill, to attempt to keep things as normal as possible; to attempt to li...

The second edition of “Patients for a Moment” is up at Duncan Cross . Be sure to check it out.

Teaching my own course this spring has made me realize, for really the first time, that I need to be selfish and take time to do things for ...

I wanted to let you all know of a new blog carnival, “ Patients For A Moment ” (PFAM), that is up at Duncan Cross . PFAM is a patient-cente...

The reality of illness is hard to deal with. Time and again, there is something that will happen that sets off a cycle of crazy thoughts, th...

“Won’t you take me to Funkytown?” Well, that’s pretty much the way I felt about this latest rheumatologist appointment, which happened yeste...

Lately I’ve encountered several people who have asked me to be candid with them about my illness experience. While this has been a welcome c...

This was the first Grand Rounds in awhile that I’ve submitted to, and David Harlow at HealthBlawg makes an astute observation about my post,...

This weekend, I had the opportunity to go up to Mackinac Island with some friends (you can find information about the Island here ). I inter...

I was asked to write a guest post for lupus awareness month by my friend Maria over at My Life Works Today . The post, entitled, “It Does N...

May (which is shockingly half over already!) is both lupus and rheumatoid arthritis awareness month, which is a little weird for me since I ...

“Oh, why you look so sad? Tears are in your eyes […] Don’t be ashamed to cry, let me see you through Cause I’ve seen the dark side too. When...

On the journey that is chronic illness, there are many struggles to be had. To me, the two biggest are the hard-won battles against ourselve...

I haven’t posted a song in a long time, but I think this one is so amazing. Plus, since the butterfly is the symbol of lupus, I thought some...