🩺 Lupus Vault Scroll: The Breath That Returned

“May 1st, 2014—I couldn’t breathe. By May 10th, I was writing again.”

I was in the ICU for seven days. Congestive heart failure. Blood clots in my lungs and left leg.
Lupus attacked my heart, my lungs, and my blood. Fluid. Clotting. Silence.

Then I was transferred to a step-down room. Even there, my blood pressure dropped so low the nurse couldn’t find it.
She tried again. And again. Finally, she got it—to Jerry’s relief. LOL. I always had low BP. That day, it almost disappeared.

I came home on the 7th or 8th. And by the 10th, I stitched a scroll.
By the 12th, I stitched another.

There are typos. Blogger says 18. I say—leave them.
They are part of the breath that returned. Part of the ache. Part of the truth.

This scroll belongs in the Lupus Vault. It holds the moment I realized—
This is serious. This is sacred. This is survival.

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