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Manage Lupus

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4 Steps to Manage Your Lupus for Life

1. Learn About Lupus – Learn as much as you can about lupus and the effects it can have on your body. Don’t be overwhelmed or angry as you learn. Since lupus is a disease of varying issues it’s important to know that every lupus journey is different.

2. Know Your Lupus ABCs – A Know ALL of your tests and levels. Work with your doctor to find out what tests they are taking and why. Keep on track of your levels as they show inflammation and other things that happen in your body. B BLOOD PRESSURE If your blood pressure gets too high, it makes your heart work too hard. It can cause a heart attack, stroke, and damage your kidneys and eyes. C CARING for your self. Find out how you can properly care for yourself while battling lupus on a daily basis.

3. Learn How to Live with Lupus -It is common to feel overwhelmed, sad, or angry when you are living with lupus. Learn to cope with lupus through limiting your stress, eating healthy, being active and sticking to the plan of treatment every day.

4. Get Routine Care to Stay Healthy – See your health care team to find and treat any problems early. You will see many doctors, so make sure you are communicating well with every doctor and keeping them in your lupus loop together. Don’t feel intimidated to be your best healthcare advocate.

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Healing

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Healing from lupus is not only in the cure. Although the cure is the optimal desire, healing comes mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically with the mini miracles you receive daily. #LupusInColor

Crock Pot Recipe

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Crock Pot Chicken

6 Chicken Breasts

6 cut up Green Onions

1 Regular onion

1 Green Pepper

4 cut up Whole Carrots

2 Cups low sodium chicken broth

Season the chicken with your favorite seasoning. Cut up ingredients above throw in the crock pot. Pour chicken broth to cover. Set on low for overnight cooking ( I set it for 6 hours).

Can be enjoyed as a soup you can add noodles last half hour of cooking or a protein over a bed of rice with vegetables on the side. Leftovers can be used for chicken salad wraps and sandwiches.

World Stroke Day

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Today is World Stroke Day, we want to be sure you have the tools necessary to recognize a stroke and the signs to look for. Following these easy steps could help save a life!!!!

The B.E. F.A.S.T. guideline helps you remember that timely treatment is the key to saving someone’s life or quality of life.

B – Balance: Is the person experiencing a sudden loss of balance or coordination?

E – Eyes: Is the person having a sudden change in vision or trouble seeing

F – Face: Ask the person to smile. Does one side of the face droop?

A – Arms: Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?

S – Speech: Ask the person to repeat a simple phrase. Is their speech slurred or strange?

T – Time: If you observe any of these signs, call 9-1-1 immediately.

Strokes cause about one out of every 19 deaths in the U.S. each year, making it the third leading cause of death for women and the fourth leading cause of death for men. Strokes are also a leading cause of serious long-term disability in America.

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Gospel Explosion

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We had a magnificent time at the Gospel Explosion! Great music and great company. There was a joyful noise in the church and the Lupus Testimonies were great thank you Levern Hunt and Make A Joyful Noise created a great event to help spread lupus awareness. You are awesome!!! #LupusInColor

Holiday Pouch Drive

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Hello all, Lupus In Color is launching a Holiday Pouch Drive for Lupus! This year, Lupus In Color is adopting the patients at Henrico Doctors Infusion Center to receive Holiday Pouches, filled with goodies.

I personally spend a lot of time there every month receiving chemo infusions and treatments for my own personal battle with lupus. I understand the importance of receiving items that can make your infusion more comfortable. Our goal is 50+ Pouches! Lupus In Color will fill each pouch with goodies to help make time at the infusion center just a little bit easier.

For as little as $10 you can sponsor 2 pouches for men and women who fight daily for their lives. It’s a small act of kindness that will go a long way.

Please take a moment and donate and help us help those who battle lupus daily.

https://www.facebook.com/donate/491951027958300/

Happy 6th Anniversary

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Congratulations to Lupus In Color for celebrating it’s 6th year serving the local community of Richmond, VA as a lupus support group. On this day in 2012 we began our journey to bring education, awareness, support and encouragement locally. Since forming, we have grown locally and worldwide as we use the world wide web to reach beyond our local area. Let’s continue to support one another and work to help others do the same in their areas. Thank you for your support always! #LupusInColor #Educate #Inspire #Encourage #Empower

World Arthritis Day

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World Arthritis Day 2018: World Arthritis Day 2018 is observed on October 12. This day is exclusively meant to raise awareness about arthritis, a condition which affects millions of people across the world. Arthritis is an inflammatory condition of joints.

On World Arthritis Day, the idea is to raise awareness about arthritis and how it affects lives of people who suffer from it. This day was started by World Arthritis Foundation in order to spread awareness about arthritis and encourage policymakers to help reduce burden of arthritis. The theme of World Arthritis Day this year is “It’s in your hands, take action.”

Lupus arthritis is caused by inflammation. After a long time of uncontrolled lupus, however, people can have damage in the joints which causes problems even when the lupus is not flaring.

Arthritis is a common symptom of lupus (systemic lupus erythemaosus). Inflammatory arthritis is also the hallmark of rheumatoid arthritis. The arthritis of lupus tends to be less destructive than the arthritis of rheumatoid arthritis. However, there is a genetic link between rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, and a person may experience features of both these two distinct diseases.

When a person has two independent diseases, it’s called comorbidity. According to one article, the lupus/rheumatoid arthritis comorbidity might be based in genetics.

Just one gene in your body may cause both lupus and arthritis.

The More You Know!

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