Category Archives: Advocacy

Wear Purple Today and Give Yourself Some Recognition

  There is a month full of campaigns for lupus awareness~ I’ll try to make note of as many as I can. What I would really like to do is encourage you to wear purple today and show not only ......

Today is World Lupus Day~

  What does this day mean for you?

Putting our money where our needs are

So, as the little reader board on my site here has been teasing you about regarding the “first line of your story”, I’m finally able to write a little more about what I mean by that.......

Arthritis Road Show Free Education Presentations

This traveling community presentation offering will be available beginning this Saturday and provide speakers, e-advocacy opportunities and more information about theOregon’s Arthritis Foundatio......

Summertime, Summertime, uh, oh, Summertime ♫

Today we are hosting Patients For A Moment (PFAM) and the theme was to divulge the wishes, dreams, goals and plans for the summer months ahead.  I’m noticing a slow-down in PFAM participation an......

Today is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

I am pleased to introduce author and pain archeologist, Sue Ingebretson, as our guest for today.  You may already know her from her website Rebuilding Wellness and/or from her book, FibroWHYalg......

It is World Lupus Day – got your armor on?

  If you are living with lupus, or know someone who is, you will undoubtedly come across references to it live or via internet.  Over the last three years of MLWT, I have watched the presence of......

May 7th~ World Ankylosing Spondylitis Awareness Day

I have had the pleasure of meeting and collaborating with some amazing people, including the crew at the Spondylitis Association of America. Although there isn’t an official chapter of the Spon......

May and Lupus back in the spotlight

Here we are again~ National Lupus Awareness Month.  International Lupus Awareness Day is May 10th.  In Oregon, SB348 (Senate Bill 348 designates May of each year as Lupus Awareness Month and ma......

Sound the trumpets, but heed the call

This was a big week for me and I intend to write about all that is going on in the next few days.  I want to begin with one of those “big” items, though, that has caused some mixed feelings and ......

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