*WEGO asks: Was starting your advocacy journey a hard decision? Were you anxious and hesitant or were you excited and ready to share your story? Tell us how you chose to start advocating for your condition. Advocacy in the realm of autoimmune disease was a fluid and natural process for me. My daughter, now 26 years old, was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of 2. I had spent her young life learning about rh factors, ana tests, and a plethora of other acronyms and abbreviations pertaining to her disease. When Alesha was diagnosed, I felt incredibly isolated. It was such a difficult place to be because I struggled with undiagnosed clinical depression. (It would be 8 more years before I realized that diagnosis), but my little girl needed me, so I stepped out of that random and very dark place to tackle the beast called Arthritis(JRA). Such a motivating factor gave me a feeling of power like I could divide and c...
Psoriasis. Psoriatic Arthritis. Fibromyalgia.
Myofascial Pain. Bullous Pemphigoid.
We've gone way past a Double Whammy!
Autoimmune Disease has reared its ugly head in so many lives. Here I blog about the nature of this beast, ways to cope, and the human element that connects us all.
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