Category Archives: Challenge and Opportunity

Whatcha’ doing today at 5pm, Oregon and SW Washington?

A quick note about our LFA Pacific NW Chapter’s webinar today~ “Living With Lupus” featuring Philip Moberg, MD out of Seattle.  He will be offering an overview of the disease and its many form......

Participants Needed for Study of Naturopathy for “Hard-to-Diagnose”

If you have a multi-symptom, hard-to-diagnose or treat illness such as lupus, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, or multiple chemical sensitivities, please consider participating in an interview-bas......

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......

PFAM is here for May 25th!

Okay, I am amazed that we are already in mid-May.  Thanks to Leslie at  Getting Closer To Myself   for reminding me to get going on calls for submissions.  I will be hosting the next Patients F......

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......

April Book for MLWT Discussion Group

Just a quick note~  Today begins our April MLWT book group discussion on Shelfari.com   and we are featuring Carla Ulbrich’s  How Can You NOT Laugh At A Time Like This? .  In fact, Carla has jo......

Applying the brakes and taking back the wheel

  If you had asked me in January whether I realized how much my 2011 goal of  catching up would bring on a domino effect leaving me buried still into February, I would’ve scoffed…and you ......

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