The Lupus and Autoimmune Blog

This past May, my husband and I checked a box off my bucket list. Since long before my chronic illness diagnosis (15 years ago), I have wanted to visit Nova Scotia. Most of my life I have had a weird fascination with Canada, yet I had never been there! At the beginning of May, we […]

  This is a guest post from a fellow Lupus warrior (and terrific writer), Joanna Mechlinski No matter how old you get, it’s hard not to be swept up in the excitement of Halloween. There are parties, hilariously “scary” movies, and best of all, loads of candy! Who wouldn’t want to be a part of […]

Nothing helps summer linger on a bit longer than a fresh berry almond tart (or, well, a wicked sunburn). While I am ecstatic fall is making an appearance (it’s my favorite season), there are aspects of summer I will miss…like picking fresh berries at the farms here in western New York. It wasn’t until my thirties […]

I remember the first time I came across an energy bites recipe (a.k.a. date bites, date balls, energy balls, etc.). I thought, No baking, clean ingredients and it would give me energy? Sign me up, buddy! Could this gluten free, raw snack be another feather in my fighting fatigue cap?  If you deal with a chronic illness or […]

See that redhead? That’s my grandmother. Yes, I know it looks like we aren’t related. Correct, she does look more like my husband. But we can talk about that more later. Right now, let’s get back to her. She weighed about 95 pounds on my wedding day. Always a tiny little peanut, grandma was a soft-spoken, […]

My husband, God love him, is the healthiest freaking person on the planet. For real. Sick twice in the past 12 years we have been together. One of those times is when we both got the death flu. I thought we had Ebola for sure. Twelve days later, looking on par with the grim reaper, […]