autoimmune

Wayback Wednesday: Seven Things Worse Than the Diabetes

By AmyT on October 28, 2009

On an overnight trip to Dallas two weeks ago, I broke out in some rather ugly hives — again! My lips poofed up like I’d been slammed with a hockey puck, and my right eye went all ape-like. This lasted for several days.  It was that damn gluten allergy again, I must assume, although for the life of me I can’t figure out what I “ate wrong.”
This experience reminded me about a post from…

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Another Diagnosis in the Family (Lyme Disease)

By AmyT on September 15, 2009

Up until now it’s been all about me and my #$%@ chronic illness. That wasn’t so bad, for me. Far tougher is the realization that someone you love — someone who’s been the rock of your existence — may not be so invincible after all. Although nothing truly catastrophic has happened, a little piece of my heart is breaking…
It happened while we were in Germany. My husband came home one day saying he thought…

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