Michelle | August 16, 2010
Image via Wikipedia I posted earlier about Cure JM having a chance at a $250,000 grant from Pepsi and we still do! Voting is open until the end of August. In July we were in 12th place and as of today we are in 4th. Woot Woot!! The top two will each receive the grants. [...]
Michelle | August 5, 2010
I am in the process of getting a new treatment this week. It’s called IVIg and it’s exciting and it sucks. When I say it sucks, it’s because I’m the lucky ’50%’ that the nurse said would get a killer headache. It’s the worst one I’ve ever had. I am banking so much on [...]
Michelle | July 24, 2010
Pepsi is hosting a contest and is giving away 250K to the winner! I’m supporting Make Juvenile Myositis a Memory by The Cure JM Foundation. About 5,000 kids in the US are affected by this disease, putting it in the ‘rare disease’ category. But just because that number isn’t astronomical, doesn’t mean that they don’t [...]
Michelle | March 26, 2010
In the beginning of my illness, I was told that I had lupus. I immediately went home, cried, then read everything I could get my hands on. I was online reading medical journal material, lupus blogs, lab reference sites, everything and anything (except for sites with no reputation, and the ‘cure all’ sites, ugh). I [...]
Michelle | March 14, 2010
I can honestly say these last few months have been pure torture. Pain, sickness, stress and depression. No exaggeration there. And yet, I feel optimistic. Why? Because God is with me, and the rheumatologist at the teaching hospital ROCKS!!! I asked him if he’d be mine, and he said yes! My new rheumy I mean. Big C approves [...]
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