A post today read, "Celebrate World Lupus Day by raising awareness." Celebrate? Really? Raise awareness? I can do that. I can celebrate my chemically induced remission. I can celebrate the great minds that developed medications that allow me to keep my kidneys. But I won't celebrate lupus.
My observance of World Lupus Day is renewed determination: determination to find the cause and cure by supporting research, determination to be a voice for lupus patients through advocacy, and determination to help people with lupus live their best life.
But the best celebration by far would be a world in which there was no need for a World Lupus Day.
Please join me in supporting the Lupus Florida Lupus Walk http://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1014606&lis=1&kntae1014606=661E91D667774137894D7264D3F29E8A&supId=353733180
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