Gratitude!

Hiya Douglas

Just thought I would congratulate you on taking the wise decision to stay home thereby avoiding barfing on parishioners.

I have been a parishioner once or twice and I would not have appreciated it really.

I would have laughed if it landed on anybody else, of course, and felt very sorry for you, but the resulting split nose and tingy eyes from laughing would have been all your fault.

Hope you can work out which way up you are now. Vertigo is a terrible thing - especially when it is so bad it is making you nauseous. Hope you feel a lot better soon.

Take good care.

I hear ya Douglas! When I was diagnosed I had no computer and it was before the internet had really got going. I had no idea what Lupus was when my Doc. told me I had it...but was VERY glad that after years of troubles he finally decided I did have a problem. Went through chemo without having ever talked with another Lupie. Got a computer a few years later and discovered message boards not too long after that. Think I went into depression when the LFA shut down what was a really cool board many years ago....still wonder where some of the people I knew went to, we all just scattered. Later I came across this one and have stuck around. LFA started another one a year or so ago, but it hasn't developed into what it once was, maybe in time.
Great choice not barfing at church! I did a Lupus walk Saturday. Wasn't feeling 100%...but I seldomly do, so I went and did it. Hot day at the beach, but luckily that while the fires out here were burning the smoke hadn't really got to the beach yet, so the air was OK. Later that day and Sunday it was really bad, the sun was orange, never would've walked in that air! Guess the Los Angeles walk raised close to $70,000.00, so we did alright. Tough year to try to get donations, I only raised half what I did last year.
Best Wishes, hope you get feeling better!

-Eric