Lupus Quotes

“Always find the funny.”
― Amy Susan Crohn, Dying to Live: Running backwards through cancer, Lupus and chronic illness

“The bottom line is this: environmental toxins are all around us, and they stimulate the production of free radicals, which can cause axidative damage to any kind of cell, be it muscle, nerve, liver, kidney,, heart, brain, and so on, and cause autoimmune disease.”
― Stephen B. Edelson, M. D.

“If I mention my father is blind, the response is rarely one of immediate concern or pity.…. The audience in receipt of this bare fact seems always to be in need of comfort. I cannot provide comfort. He cannot see light.
My life with lupus often provokes a similar response in others: the desire to be comforted. By me. The sufferer.”
― Shaista Tayabali, LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity

“al que no le importa morir no le asusta quitar la vida a otro.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, El Principe

“A friend visited and did not like to see the tears in my eyes, the tiredness. I am a river of sadness,’ I sighed.
‘Well you can’t be,’ he said, sternly. ‘There’s no such thing. Rivers move and change and take things away with them and pick things up, like flowers and happiness. Write me a happy poem!”
― Shaista Tayabali, LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity

“Being alive is my destiny. Dying just a destination.”
― Myra

“Hospital leaves us more malnourished than before we enter the corridors. Not many nutrients enter our systems while we are in-patients.”
― Shaista Tayabali, LUPUS, YOU ODD UNNATURAL THING: a tale of auto-immunity