While reading The Autoimmune Epidemic, I came across a sentence that said: “Several studies have shown that women who use hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus — that is, if they also carry specific genes that make them susceptible to autoimmune disease in the first place.”Hmmm, the key here is [...]

Whew, now that’s a mouthful. Yes indeed I am going to combine three posts in one because I’ve got chemo brain and I can’t stay focused. Well no, actually, all of this came together in one day during chemo. Today was my day to sit in a chair and look stupid for a couple [...]

This is where I hang my head in shame to say for many years my stove sat as nothing more than installation art in my kitchen. What did I do all those years? I did what most do, I purchased sodium packs that I could easily pop into a microwave oven for another [...]

I cannot plan anything. Really, I can’t. Last evening I was supposed to attend a “Girls Night In” dinner party with friends. We were all to bring a dish — one of our favorites — and the plan was to sit, eat, talk, laugh and drink. Needless to say, for me [...]

The other day I received some sad news about a young girl who lost her battle with lupus. Like me, she too had lupus nephritis. For the past few days I have been asking myself why it is that me, the old fart, is still around when so many younger than I are [...]

Many years ago a friend told me to take echinacea to ward off colds. I tried it one time and was worse for wear afterward. I kept the herb around for a long while, in my cabinet to never be seen or heard from again — so I thought — as a reminder [...]