“A friend visited and did not like to see the tears in my eyes, the tiredness. I am a river of sadness,’ I sighed. ‘Well you can’t be,’ he said, sternly. ‘There’s no such thing. Rivers move and change and take things away with them and pick things up, like flowers and happiness. Write me a happy poem!” PoetrySadnessPositive ThinkingRiversIllnessLupus Book:LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity Source: LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity
“If I mention my father is blind, the response is rarely one of immediate concern or pity.…. The audience in receipt of this bare fact seems always to be in need of comfort. I cannot provide comfort. He cannot see light. My life with lupus often provokes a similar response in others: the desire to be comforted. By me. The sufferer.” HealthPatientDoctorHospitalImmunityLupusSleSystemic Lupus Erythematosis Book:LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity Source: LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity