Exercise

Here are exercizes I have found helpful for my condition.

1. Aerobic Exercizes.

• Light jogging
• Bicycle Riding
• Step
• Anything that works the joints.

2. Yoga
3. Strength training
4. Muscle conditioning.

Remember to pace yourself...
These are things I have done. Don't do these things if you can't or before talking to a doctor.

I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt.

Happiness

Okay...so happiness...
What is that?

How can you be happy when you have an incurable autoimmune disease? Well...let's do something...

How do I deal with Lupus?

1. I take each day slowly, and at a comfortable pace.
2. I look at the positives, rather than the negatives.
3. I don't give a s*** what people think.
4. I'm confident that I know my body.
5. I do what I want to do.
6. I do what makes me happy.
7. I find a reason to smile.
8. I find a reason to laugh.
9. I get in touch with good friends.
10. I stop living in the past.
11. I stop living in the future.
12. I live in the *now*.

That's what I do....
What you do could be different.
But I'm happy, doing whatever the hell I wanna do.

Hope

Never forget hope

Because hope is always at your door

Dying is easy

Living is hard

  I lose hope, we all do.

We're all sensitive about our illnesses.

We're all afraid of dying.

We go to bed each night, wondering if we're going to make it.

It's life...

Life happens...

That's why I focus on the positives...and take each day at a time.

And why I fight things so greatly. I just started taking diet pills...

Yeah...that's right.....diet pills. I'm freaking wired here!!! Yet, I can function.

Being a Lupus patient means you have to function...not just "live"...

For me...the masks have all fallen away...and the truth has been told...

Now a word makes an appearence in my mind...

Hope...

Lupies...

Be careful what you wish for...

People with Lupus call themselves *Lupies*. Lupies = Person who suffers with Lupus.

So we're defining ourselves with what we have, huh? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the term *Lupie (s)*. I'm saying there is something wrong with defining yourself with a horrid disease.

Lupus is horrible...it can kill, it can maim, and it can make you absolutely misrable. Believe me...I have been through that...some days I am misrable because of this disease. I want it to go away, but it won't. I want my blood to stop masking it but it won't either.

A strange game is it not?

Stop thinking "I'm a Lupie". Think I'm a person, who is talented at many things, and who has a future. Think..."I am a Lupie, but I am also...", and other things like that.

This disease is a part of us...but it will never be who we are...unless you let it.