So, when I was diagnosed I started a list to lift my spirits. Thought these might make others laugh/smile and maybe you’ll have a few of your own to add.
Excellent excuse never to buy another bathing suit
Bronzer? Blush? No thanks! With this malar rash I save money and time!
Thank you Stephanie Meyer for making pale trendy!
Wrinkles? I never go in the sun! I’m going to look like this for the next forty years!
I take pride in keeping the NSAID industry afloat
Scare the bejesus out of the neighbors pruning roses and picking tomatoes with a headlamp at night. They probably think I’ve got bodies buried in my yard.
I’m not crazy! Look! There really IS something wrong with me! {maybe I shouldn’t say that one out loud}
One serious one:
I have more compassion for my patients, and more credibility with them when I share my own struggles
I have one : I can blame weight gain on steroids
I have an excuse to have three sizes of clothes in my closet…again…thanks to steroids!
I am allowed a grumpy day when I have to increase my …steroid dose.
I have a valid excuse to not wear high heels. Flats are chic!
Now see that is the humor of Lupus....that is what the new Lupies have to look forward too....in any situation there is humor, you might not see it when the pain is so intense but it does ease up ....thats when you have to LIVE.....LAUGH and just try to get by....There are enough down days, believe me we have all felt them... You know the other day I was thinking and I have had my share of Lupus tradgedy....and I thought....boy my body is one tough fighting machine it just keeps fighting ...my poor body has been through so much and keeps getting up ....That energizer rabbit has nothing on me.....lol or should I say US....
Aww Thank you for this post and the replys . I really needed to come across this today. Needed the many laughs. I've been stressing out the last few weeks due to many life factors and worried i'll wound up in a flare. Trying to dodge sun and heat and son will be entering senior year of high school and just started driving independently without mom or dad, etc. Been thrown in the fast lane for tooo long and this was perfect timing. Thank you all!!!
Holy buckets I love this thread! I was sitting here nodding and laughing to every one of those. Especially the movie one and the no need for blush. My friend said to me the other day, “you must have found the holy grail of blushes because your cheeks always look so rosy” to which I answered, “like they say in House, ‘it’s lupus’” lol
Nuh uh. It’s NEVER lupus on House. In fact when I called my husband and told him I had it I swear to god he said “it’s never lupus”- he thought I was kidding!
A makeup artist in sephora tried to take my “blush” off one time- that was funny.
