Just wanna share to you some snapshots from my birthday, just a month ago…

I think I know something to help me find my mood back, I need diamonds. No kidding, that will probably make me jump for joy. But if you’re giving me a diamond and it represent as engagement rings or wedding rings I’m quite sure you will make me feel so bad once again. Of course, I would want to wear an engagement and a wedding ring someday but I cannot see that in my near future my love life is terribly in a lot of mess right now and I can’t hear any wedding bells at all.

But still who can resist this? Oh, my its such a beauty, isn’t? If you are in the market of finding the best diamond jewelry for your loved-one jamesallen.com is just the finest place you are looking for.

This bad mood is really getting old. I don’t know what else to do to uplift my soul. I have every reason to rejoice and be happy but I’m not. I’m not usually like this and I have always been an optimist, always trying to look at the bright side. But I’m afraid it does not work with me this time. Even retail therapy cannot bring me into a good mood, so I am now convinced that this has something to do with my lupus illness and I just need to patiently wait on it to subside. There are so many things that I needed to do, that I needed to prepare for the upcoming Christmas celebration. As the events planner and organizer, I have a lot of things that needs to be done and I need to be in the mood for it. After all Christmas is all about happiness and I don’t want my sadness to reflect on the celebration.

My grandmother loves to collect coins, her collection includes vintage coins from the World War II and I just think that it so awesome. Part of her collection was silver and gold coins that are truly valuable. My grandma never really realized that her coin collections are worth a lot and she just put it in an antique cabinet. We all told her that she should keep it somewhere safe especially the gold coins because it is rare and highly valuable. It is better to keep it in a bank so that it could be preserved and probably be worth a lot more in the future. I wonder how much a gold bullion will be. Interesting right?

From Rosemarie of Celebrate Life (sorry for the late posting)

From Milet, the first person I know who is also suffering from Lupus

I’m not new with blog awards, I need to update my blog award page every now and then to keep up with the awards I am receiving and I am delighted by this and it humbles me to be recognized by my fellow bloggers while doing what I enjoy to do, blogging. It warms my heart and I just wanna say thank you to all of you.

God bless and have a great Sunday!

Lupus is often misdiagnosed and it is called an invisible disease because you can never really tell if someone is suffering from Lupus, it’s like we are lupus sufferers walking along like normal people.  I personally, never heard of lupus until the doctor told me that I might have one. During my early day with lupus, I was not told right away that I am suffering from that disease. I was first told that I had dengue, since my high fever wont subside despite all the antibiotics and then when my blood test turned out negative, the resident doctor (who in my opinion was pretty dumb) told my mom that I have meningocemia and I’ll be lucky to live in the next 24hours my mom fainted and my aunt shouted at the doctor and asked if he has enough proof that I am suffering from meningocemia and he said no that is just his opinion (pretty dumb and stupid, right?) My aunt went hysteria and immediately asked for me to be transfered in a hospital in Manila and within hours I was transferred by an ambulance, barely breathing. It was only then that the attending physician suspected that I might have lupus and he recommended my case to a Rheumatologist who subjected me to a series of test like blood tests and ANA. At first I turned out negative in my ANA result and my doctor said that I am suffering from Vasculitis, which later progressed to lupus and after three years my ANA result turned out positive that was the only time I was told that I have lupus.

But the weird part of all this is that I didn’t know, I don’t feel anything not even pain except the time that I had a hard time walking and my medical test results are indicating that I am sick but I don’t have any symptoms at all. Well, maybe I am just clueless about it but as far as I know these are the known symptoms of lupus…

• Achy joints
• Fever over 100 degrees F
• Swollen and painful joints (arthritis)
• Prolonged fatigue
• Skin rashes
• Anemia
• Swollen ankles (kidney involvement)
• Chest pain upon deep breathing (pleurisy)
• Butterfly-shaped rash across cheeks and nose
• Sensitivity to sun (photosensitivity)
• Unusual hair loss
• Abnormal blood clotting problems
• Pale or purple fingers from cold or stress (Raynaud’s Phenomenon)
• Seizures
• Mouth ulcers (often painless, at roof of mouth)

Well, I’ve got some of these but I just ignored it. So if you are feeling any of these symptoms don’t hesitate to tell your doctor about it and you might just be one of us.

I used to exercise daily and engaged in a lot of sports activities. But unfortunately before I was diagnosed with Lupus, I was first diagnosed with Vasculitis. It is an inflammation in the blood vessels that makes my veins weak and I was advised by my doctor to restrain from any physical activities. Last year, my doctor allowed me to go back to badminton as long as I won’t be playing hard and he also allowed me to go to the gym and exercise on a treadmill and elliptical. I was really happy, this will help me trim down a little of the fat that steroids caused me.

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