"The wolf" is sneaky. It's tricky. It hides. It pretends. It's ferocious. It kills. Lupus, "the wolf", is a disease often resulting in Migraine and other headache disorders. When living my early years in Oregon, spending time in the wilderness, I happened upon wolves in the wild. I've looked at them in curiosity and excitement, but never fright. For the most part, wolves would prefer not to be around people... not to be observed. I never looked at a wolf as something to be afraid of. Perhaps that's why, when told I had Lupus years ago - a disease aptly named with the Latin word for 'wolf' - it was with curiosity that I asked what that was going to mean for my life. I was told the disease was named Lupus because it is like the wolf that hides in sheep's clothing , pretending to be many things, confusing the doctor until it strikes a disabling blow to its prey, the patient. When you're young you can't picture yourself chronically sick and weak, so the description was interesting to me, but I had hope that some new discovery would happen at any moment and that would be the end of my dance with the wolf called Lupus. Twenty six years later, here I am, running again from the wolf at my heels. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. This means that the body's immune system has lost the ability to tell the difference between invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and mistakenly begins to target and destroy the cells of normal body tissues. There are d ...
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"The wolf" is sneaky. It's tricky. It hides. It pretends. It's ferocious. It kills. Lupus, "the wolf", is a disease often resulting in Migraine and other headache disorders. When living my early years in Oregon, spending time in the wilderness, I happened upon wolves in the wild. I've looked at them in curiosity and excitement, but never fright. For the most part, wolves would prefer not to be around people... not to be observed. I never looked at a wolf as something to be afraid of. Perhaps that's why, when told I had Lupus years ago - a disease aptly named with the Latin word for 'wolf' - it was with curiosity that I asked what that was going to mean for my life. I was told the disease was named Lupus because it is like the wolf that hides in sheep's clothing , pretending to be many things, confusing the doctor until it strikes a disabling blow to its prey, the patient. When you're young you can't picture yourself chronically sick and weak, so the description was interesting to me, but I had hope that some new discovery would happen at any moment and that would be the end of my dance with the wolf called Lupus. Twenty six years later, here I am, running again from the wolf at my heels. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. This means that the body's immune system has lost the ability to tell the difference between invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and mistakenly begins to target and destroy the cells of normal body tissues. There are d ...