Hello World!

I decided to start this blog after talking with a friend at my son’s basketball game. We both struggle with autoimmune conditions and got on the topic of the infamous prednisone. Next thing you know, we were laughing at how even our knees gained a temporary layer of fat, our heads were permanently larger (beanie stretching in the winter became a thing – if you know, you know) and we now require extra wide shoes and sometimes even a size larger than our pre-steroid feet required. We know what mood swings and pure rage over seemingly nothing feels like… We’ve had night sweats, digestion issues, and our hair thinned… We get DEXA scans now with our mammograms.

But with all of the yucky stuff, it also saved our lives…

I’m starting this blog in hopes that we can create a shared community space to share our battles, victories, hard stuff and the downright horrible stuff. Because chronic illness it tough, but my friends, so are we!