Lupus

Of diseases a person might have lupus isn't the worse. I guess of course it is the disease you have. It has been heartening, the recent lupus awareness campaigns-1/100 women will be diagnosed with lupus. Symptoms of lupus vary. They come and they go. At it's best I feel like I have the flu. At it's worst I feel that my body is on fire. Avoiding the dun, fluorescent lights, and stress help. Show me a person without stress...well you would have to take me to a cemetery. Living in Cali, well the sun shines a lot. I tend to be nocturnal, good for me. Oh yeah, sick people are bad for me-darn I am a teacher! Sick children are all about me. Fluorescent lights...you should see how many light bulbs are unscrewed in my classroom. The poor plant manager keeps wanting to replace the burned out bulbs/he likes me. Seventeen years this disease has occupied my body. At times it consumes my mind. Have you ever blinked and your eyelashes cause pain on your eyelids? When lupus is in remission I fly like a kite on a summer breeze-when my immune system goes haywire-well then I pray, a lot! At times I find it ironic that my body can't discern healthy cells and poisonous cells. Perhaps a metaphor of my life. If brain stem harvesting and research were allowed, lupus is one of the hundreds of diseases which could be cured. That is a slippery slope. When is a fetus viable? Would curing hundreds of diseases justify harvesting stem cells? Here my friends is the secret no one wants you to know. Drug and insurance companies don't want stem cell harvesting! They would lose billions of dollars! Ha, $$$$$! This is what keeps MS, MD, diabetes & lupus alive and killing! Our own government, or rather elected officials of our government receive billions of dollars from-guess who? Drug companies! Ding ding ding you win a cookie! Some refer to this cycle as the darwinistic economic reality. If breast cancer occured more often in men than women the race for a cure would be much shorter. Hard truth for certain, truth can be that way. Which brings us to the bonus round of today's show. How do we change the status qui? That my friends is worth all the drug companies billions! And I don't reckon they will just let us take money out of their pockets. Let us all shout out, let us all speak up, let us all clearly & succinctly express our views. I think I will start a bracelet campaign for lupus awareness...what color should I order? Green, the color of both money and growth? Orange? Just cause it makes me smile? What do you think? What color should our bracelets be? Will you wear one?