Download or read book Butterfly Girl My Lupus Journey written by Aimee Ackell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimee Ackell's, Butterfly Girl, MY LUPUS JOURNEY is a story about the time she was diagnosed with Lupus and how she weathered many trials and challenges on her journey of twenty years with the disease. She gives the reader a positive outlook on how to handle it and how she persevered in her life. She talks about her illness, medications, hospitalizations, family, friends, work, exercise, diet spirituality, and love for inspiring people to conquer their fears with an illness. She is a motivating individual who believes that anyone can just do it to heal him or herself back to being healthy. Aimee Ackell offers an informative and positive perspective on coping with Lupus for people with the disease and their families. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that is difficult to diagnose, and the symptoms-from achy joints to skin rashes- often mimic those of other diseases. Lupus affects more than 1.4 million people in the United States, and affects more women then men. It is considered the silent disease. Her journey of twenty years with Lupus demonstrates the good, the bad and the ugly. The challenges of Lupus are unlimited but there is hope and inspiration given to the reader. She describes the major events that have affected her with her Lupus and how she handled it. The reader walks away with a confident outlook on to handle Lupus. She is very inspirational and her journey allows you a peek into her life while living with a chronic disease. As she always says, smile and smile more!
Download or read book Girl with the Butterfly Mask written by Audrey Malcolm and published by Bambusparks Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSPIRATION FOR LUPUS WARRIORS AND PEOPLE DEALING WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS Everyone has a story that should be told. In this beautiful, poetic memoir, Lupus Warrior and Chartered Accountant, Audrey Malcolm, shares her inspiring story of living with Lupus for over 22 years. Her life proves that Lupus is just a word and not a death sentence. Her creative poetic expressions not only educate you about the emotional, spiritual and physical toll of this invisible illness but flourish with hope that you can still live a full life despite your illness. In "Girl with the Butterfly Mask," you will discover: A personal and endearing journey expressed creatively through poetry and prose. The role of stress in triggering Lupus flares. How to manage the illness with the support of friends, family and caring doctors. The possibility of love and happiness as a Lupus Warrior. You will love this book because it will help you to unmask and appreciate God's wondrous grace and mercies. This read will change your life. Get it now! About the Author Audrey Malcolm is a Jamaican poet, songwriter, and Lupus warrior. She has won awards for her poems in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) - Creative Writing Competition and in 2022, she was awarded the Best Adult Playwright. Audrey was diagnosed with Lupus in 1999, and since then, she has devoted her life to making persons more aware of Lupus and its effect on those who suffer from it. She always encourages Lupus warriors to make lemonade out of their given lemon.
Download or read book The Story Behind the Story written by Shennette Sparkes and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational Health Memoir. This book examines Sparkes¿s over 8 years battle with Lupus. She shares intimate details on her journey to conquer Lupus. By tackling hard topics like Self-esteem, , communication , mental health , and nutrition Sparkes hopes this book will help bring more awareness to those who may be suffering silently with disease like Lupus while encouraging those suffering with lupus to live a healthy lifestyle.
Download or read book Lupus My Life My Phenomenal Journey 20 Years Later written by Wilda L. Riggs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fly My Lupus Butterfly Fly written by Talaythea L. Miles and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl named Teah becomes ill and doctors struggle to figure out what is causing her to become so sick. After several hospital visits, they finally find out that she has lupus. She learns what the disease is and how to stay healthy.
Download or read book Lupus Journey written by Francine Houston and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I learned not to take my life for granted. After my maternal grandmother died, I went into heavy mourning. Odd symptoms developed on my skin and hair by my senior year in high school. I was diagnosed with lupus. Lupus is an auto-immune disease that can affect any organ of your body. Lupus is not contagious. The cause is unknown and there is no known cure. Lupus Journey is a coming of age memoir that talks about what I went through with lupus, the challenges I faced graduating high school, college and trying to live a normal life.
Download or read book Lupus Journey written by Francine L Houston and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I learned not to take my life for granted. After my maternal grandmother died, I went to heavy mourning. Odd symptoms developed on my skin and hair by my senior year in high school. I was diagnosed with lupus. Lupus is an auto-immune disease that can affect any organ of your body.Lupus is not contagious. The cause is unknown and there is no known cure.Lupus Journey is a coming of age memoir that talks about what I went through with lupus, the challenges I faced graduating high school, college, and trying to live a normal life.
Download or read book Lupus the Journey Continues written by Joyce Duren and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Duren establishes herself as a force to be reckoned with in literary as well as other circles. Ms. Duren has written a work of commendable perfection. In style, content, and supreme organization, My Bout with Lupus now takes its place on the universal bookshelf of masterpieces. There can be no doubt about her originality. She tells an unusually touching story in a colorful, lighthearted language unique to a contemporary Californian with roots in Cleveland, Ohio, and West Virginia, all of which she is . . . and has . . . None of which she denies. She also can take on tough situations successfully. Her completion of this fine book, despite overwhelming odds, proves that. And her application of spiritual tools such as prayer, fasting, and positive thinking along the way proves her to be steadfast in her faith. Besides being entertaining and inspiring My Bout with Lupus is also educational. It teaches us how to apply our own inner resources in these tumultuous times. Thus, Ms. Duren is a master teacher too. On top of all this, shes also charismatic, perfect for any television talk show. Hints of her healthy personality leak out of this vigorous saga about her struggles successfully to meet the challenges of simultaneously being a single parent, church activist, and businessperson. Writer, instructor, personalityJoyce Duren is all these great things . . . and more. But why go on here? Read her inspiring, informative story.
Download or read book Life After Lupus written by Francine L Houston and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It starts off where it left off 2009. I was in remission for about 5 years. I lived a balanced life traveled, worked part-time worked on businesses and spend time with mu family and friends. At the end of 2014, I started having signs of end stage renal disease and lupus. By January of 2015, I was in the hospital for a week fighting to stay alive, My whole life changed, I had to be on dialysis and not to work for about 5 months. I learned the "dark side of lupus", when the word "disability" was introduced to me. It was a fight to get my health back, a day-to day struggle to push pass was told to me by the doctors. But God works miracles. The scripture Genesis 50:20 says "But as for you, you thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."
Download or read book Lupus written by Hayley Mitchell Haugen and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease where your immune system attacks your own tissues and organs. Your readers are provided with essential information on Lupus. This book also serves as a historical survey, by providing information on the controversies surrounding its causes. Compelling first-person narratives by people coping with Lupus give readers a first-hand experience. Readers will learn from the words of patients, family members, or caregivers. The symptoms, causes, and treatments explained in detail. Alternative treatments are also covered. Each essay is carefully edited and presented with an introduction, so that they are accessible for student researchers and readers. Includes charts, graphs, and tables.
Download or read book The Flight of Our Butterfly written by Deborah A. Wallace and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight of our Butterfly is a mothers heartfelt celebration of her daughters short life on earth. Our hero, Bianca Jovan, was diagnosed at the age of 19 with an aggressive form of Lupus while in her first year of college. This book brings you into the trials and tribulations of Biancas life through a series of inspirational short stories from her mothers personal handwritten journal. Each chapter tells the story of their relationship, their struggles and their triumphs through small notes and anecdotal observations of love and affection only a mother can have. Their journey takes you back into time as if you were right there enjoying these moments with them. Some funny, some enlightening, and some serious, its a firsthand view into raising a young lady in todays world. Bianca passed away 9 years after the last entry in her mothers journal. The notes following are raw emotional peeks into a mothers resolve after the loss of her child.
Download or read book LIVING WITH THE WOLF and Surviving Lupus written by Liz Shaw-Stabler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book from Liz Shaw-Stabler brings passion, guidance, and hope to the struggle of people suffering from chronic illnesses. Liz has spent decades battling systemic lupus, even enduring kidney failure and the challenges of living each day after day when she feels ill and then the near-miracle of kidney transplant—and all of the effects on the living of life. Liz is greatly admired by all who know her—a fighter, dedicated not only to personally overcoming illness, but also to bringing health care to people of color—a group that SLE strikes particularly hard. Shaw-Stabler is a professional educator and a passionate advocate, devoting hundreds of hours to founding LupusCare, which provides education and group meetings for a community in Los Angeles that is rich in African American and Latino families—a community that needs much better access to health care and health education. This book is another step in the battle. Read it to understand, to learn, and to discover how one person can influence the battle for personal and public health. Finally, read it to be inspired and to be moved to action. This book and its author are national treasures”—Bevra H Hahn, MD Professor of Medicine Chief of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Great Admirer of Liz Stabler-Shaw Los Angeles, California, June 2010. “Lupus is a life-altering experience and wisdom provided our teachers and mentors can be enabling and empowering. Liz Shaw-Stabler has helped hundreds of women with her reassuring advice”—Daniel J. Wallace, MD, FACP, FACR Chief of Rheumatology at Cedares-Sinai Medical Center Liz Shaw-Stabler was born in East Texas and received her undergraduate degree from Prairie View A and M University. She moved to Chicago, Illinois, and began her career immediately after graduation. After living in Chicago for a few years, teaching high school, acquiring a Master’s Degree and doing freelance modeling, she slowed down long enough to get married. She is the mother of one daughter who resides in Chicago. Liz now lives with her husband, Jay, in Inglewood, California, where she became the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Lupus Care Incorporated and organization that advocates for under-served lupus patients. Liz is a thirty-year lupus patient and has suffered many life-threatening illnesses but continued to believe that she was created to do something much bigger than her illness.
Download or read book My Journey with Lupus written by Brenda Inniss-Boston and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Journey with Lupus written by Sheronda Hayes-Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief look at my personal journey with Lupus.
Download or read book Despite Lupus written by Sara Gorman and published by Sara Gorman. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a better way to manage life with a chronic illness? Despite Lupus will guide you through the proven steps needed to obtain the emotional and physical wellness you deserve.
Download or read book As Long As There Is Breath written by Shirley Jean Murphy-McKellar and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirley's extraordinary, miraculous life begins as an ordinary country girl. Then, without warning, Shirley and her mother are on a terrifying, emotional, near-death journey with lupus. Shirley's mother, Annie Ruth Murphy, made many sacrifices while Shirley was sick: leaving her youngest child who was only about four years old; losing her hospital job to be by Shirley's bedside day and night; being without food and sleep for long periods of time. Shirley suffered quietly. When the doctors could do no more and gave Shirley only 30 minutes to live, her mother, a praying woman, experienced the divine presence of God. While praying in the hospital chapel, Mother Annie Ruth heard the voice of God encouraging her, "Cheer up. Cheer up. I'll wipe away all of your tears, and as long as there is breath, there is hope." This book gives a patient's and her family's perspective of living with lupus. Shirley's hope is that this book will help educate, comfort and give hope to patients and their families.
Download or read book Living with Lupus My Personal Journey written by Debra Kinzer and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
