👩December 11, 2006: The Day I Heard “You Have Lupus”

Before December, I already knew something was wrong. My face was breaking out—red, flaky, tired. My eyebrows and nose whispered inflammation. I was exhausted. I’d sit in my chair to crochet and fell sleep pulling me under.

December 11, 2006. “You have lupus.” Dr. Visit examined me. Blood tests. Urine sample. He was kind. Still, it felt like a heavy ball had dropped. I couldn’t breathe.

My ANA was 1.80. Immuran. Four pills at a time. The war had begun.

My feelings? Anger. Isolation. Two diseases mocking each other. Now the symptoms blur. I call it the duel that fights in my body.

“The ship hasn’t sunk because we as warriors fight to survive. And this war is called ‘Mutiny on the Bounty.’”

This scroll reflects the day the wolf first walked beside me: December 11, 2006.

The wolf walks. I walk with her.

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