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Living With Chronic Illness ~ Thriving in the face of adversity!
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"Where friends gather for tea and comfort!"

Most of all, this is a place for solutions!

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People often get little or no support after receiving the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. The diagnosis itself can take years to get.  After so much time spent going from doctor to doctor, taking test after test, A person can easily lose hope.  I pick up where the diagnosis leaves off by offering the information, comfort, and the support people need to adjust to their "new", often terrifying, life.

This page is for those of us who live with a chronic illness or disability.  It's a place to find inspiration, information, encouragement, and ideas!  Learn about me and my journey, research your illness through my many links, or leave a message in one of my many forums. I encourage you to record the positive things you have discovered, how you have dealt with an aspect of your illness, the very solution someone else may be searching desperately for!


Who is "The Lupus Lady?"

I am a person who has been given a wonderful gift! I have been brought to a place where I was able to see very clearly what really matters in life and what does not!

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Hi! My name is Colleen. I am the mother of two wonderful children; Bethany age 17 and Adam age 12. I live in a small Texas town (though I was born and raised in New York) with my kids and my husband of four years, Darryl. Doctors tell me I have had Autoimmune problems all my life but they were not diagnosed for many years. I lived a long time as a sickly, unhealthy, and confused person. No two doctors gave me the same answer.

Finally, when I was pregnant with my second child, my health deteriorated to the point that I was on complete bed rest - yet I still almost lost my son. I was then diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases, the major one being Lupus. From there I started the long nightmare years: trying to find a good doctor, making people understand I was sick even though they couldn't see it, getting my work to understand my new needs and limitations, and getting support and understanding from friends and family. I needed to find out how to take care of myself, what Lupus was, and what it was going to do to me. I needed to know if I had a life left - and if I did - what good, if any, there would be in it.

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I survived those long years filled with pain, humiliation, despair, depression and anger. I came out the other side of my darkness a much better person for having made the journey. Because of what I have been through, I am committed to making a difference in the world, to making sure no one has to live through what I did - or live through it alone - and to motivating and equipping others to do the same for any chronically ill person they may know.

This site holds an ever expanding wealth of resources. You can read my story, get help and encouragement, join the new email support loop, post on the bulletin board, request the nutritional reports, and a world of other things. Look through the links at the left and feel free to email me with any suggestions for things you would like me to cover on this site! I am always open to suggestions!

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God has so richly blessed me that I am now compelled to humbly "pay it forward". To make a significant difference in the quality of life lived by chronically ill people. Someone helped me, now I am obligated to help others as well.

I pray that my journey will have an impact on your life. That my experiences will make a real difference in your journey to health, your attitude, family life, self image, relationships, lifestyle, finances, and spiritually.

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Note: Information provided at this web site is of a general nature and is not intended to take the place of a physician's adivice It is vital that persons diagnosed with, or suspected of having, an autoimmune disease consult with their physician or with the appropriate division at a major teaching hospital, to assure proper evaluation, treatment and interpretation of information contained on this site.



We say: "I can't go on", God says: "My grace is sufficient"
(II Cor. 12:9 & Psalm 91:15)

We say: "I can't manage", God says: "I will supply all your needs"
(Phillippians 4:19)

We say: "I'm not able", God says: "I am able"
(II Cor. 9:8)


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Fact Sheets With
Recommended
Reading & Links
- Addison's Disease
- Achlorhydra Autoimmune
- Alopecia Areata
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Arthritis
- Arthritis, Juvenile
- Arteritis
- Asthma
- Atopic Allergy
- Atopic Dermatitis
- Atopy
- Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
- Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome (ALPS)
- Barth Syndrome
- Behçet's Disease
- Biliary Atresia
- Bullous Pemphigoid
- Cardiomyopathy
- Celiacs Disease [Celiac Sprue-Dermatitis Herpetiformis]
- Cranial Arteritis
- Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS)
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Cicatricial Pemphigoid
- Cold Agglutinin Disease
- Colitis
- Crohns Disease
- Cushings Syndrome
- Degos' Disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Dermatomyositis-Juvenile
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type I
- Diabetes, Insulin-dependent
- Discoid Lupus
- Essential Mixed Cryoglobulinemia
- Fibromyalgia [Fibromyositis]
- Gastritis, Autoimmune Atrophic
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Goodpasture's Syndrome
- Graves Disease
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome [Infectious Polyneuritis]
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hemolytic Anemia, Autoimmune
- Hepatitis, Active Chronic Autoimmune
- Hepatitis, Lupoid
- Hughes Syndrome
- Idiopathic Adrenal Atrophy
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Idiopathic Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP)
- IgA Nephropathy
- IgE-mediated Allergy
- Immediate Allergy
- Lambert-Eaton Syndrome
- Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) [Amyotrophic Lateral Schlerosis]
- Lyme Disease
- Lymphopenia (some cases)
- Ménière's Disease
- Microscopic Polyangiitis
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
- Myositis
- Osteoporosis
- Pemphigoid
- Pemphigus Vulgaris
- Pernicious Anemia
- Phacogenic Uveitis
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Polychondritis, Relapsing
- Polyglandular Autoimmune Syndromes
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR)
- Polymyositis
- Primary Agammaglobulinemia
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Psoriasis
- Raynaud's Phenomenon
- Reiter's Syndrome
- Restless Leg Syndrome
- Rheumatic Fever
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sarcoidosis
- Schmidt's Syndrome
- Scleroderma [Crest Syndrome]
- Sjögren's Syndrome
- Sticky Blood Syndrome
- Stiff-Man Syndrome
- Sympathetic Ophthalmia
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
- Takayasu Arteritis
- Temporal Arteritis
- Thrombocytopenic Purpura, Autoimmune (ATP)
- Thyroiditis, Autoimmune
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Type I Allergic Reaction
- Type B Insulin Resistance
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Uveitis, Phacogenic
- Vasculitis
- Vitiligo
- Wegener's Granulomatosis