Author: Lupus Canada

My name is Jolene Clark. When I was 6 and my sister was 12, our mother was diagnosed with lupus after being sick for more than a decade. Although I had been dealing with symptoms since around 2001, I was officially diagnosed with lupus in

This is my Lupus story. To all my autoimmune brothers and sisters out there. I know that you are struggling just to make it through the day, I feel you. My name is Autumn and Systemic Lupus lives with me. I was diagnosed with SLE

One week before the pandemic began in 2020, I was diagnosed with lupus. The story started when I woke up one morning to swollen and sore fingers. At the time of my diagnosis, I was a stay at home mother of two little children. Waking

Greetings everyone, a new year begins! I am glad to have the opportunity to share my lupus journey. I was diagnosed 30 years ago. Prior to this diagnosis, I had many difficult and mysterious symptoms. As I have read and heard from others with lupus,

As a teacher for over thirty years, I’ve given countless lessons to my students. But none compares to the one I’ve learned from my brave daughter Victoria who was diagnosed with lupus in 2021. When we know better, we do better. I hope you’ll share

"I have lupus but lupus does not have me" - the phrase I adopted after my deep depression three years after my lupus diagnosis in 2010. I was 25.⁣ Two years before that, while in nursing school in Florida, I was in and out of

Earlier this year my life was altered by lupus. In January I had my first full-blown flare. At this point, I wasn't even diagnosed yet. I had a fever that lasted for more than a few days. One of the lymph nodes around my jaw

Hi fabulous lupies! My name is Jodie Nimigon-Young and I have been a fellow lupus warrior for 29 years. Throughout my journey I have been involved locally, provincially and nationally - no matter if life brought me from Durham, to Ottawa, to Montreal or to

Journey of 2019 Lupus Canada Scholarship Recipient, Ruth Huang The Lupus Canada Scholarship gave me hope. I was diagnosed with lupus right before my 13th birthday. At the time, my top priorities in life were acing the next math test, making it to school play

Your struggles shouldn’t define you; they should motivate you. What would you do if your kidneys failed three years after adopting a child as a single parent? It was 2015. I had been waging an all-out war against lupus for 26 years up to that