Category Archives: Work and Career

Our Voices for Lupus Awareness: Maureen’s 25 Random Things About A Day With Lupus

Living Every Day with Autoimmune Diseases            It’s been about 15 years now that I’ve woken up feeling hungover.  Sound crazy, or maybe like I have a “problem”?  I&......

Our Voices for Lupus Awareness: Jennie on Taming the Wolf Within

As I’ve read over the other postings this month, I see so much of myself reflected in their words.  Not one is exactly me, how I feel, what I deal with, but if you piece them together, a b......

back to school?

For those of us who are able to function pretty well physically, the decision to return to school or start it up for the first time may not initially be too trying.  Those of us who are more cha......

Lupus and our Oregon community’s price tag

There is a great deal of discussion about chronic illness prevention like diabetes and heart disease…however, lupus is NOT preventable.  The lack of lupus disclosure can cost employers and......

Autoimmune Disease and Work Tour Finale

  In the past week, I have been busy with coordinating projects and communications for MLWT, meanwhile figuring out my budgets reflecting the scary economic situation.  I have also been reading ......

Virtual Book Tour Arrives

Today, we’re pleased to present our guest Rosalind Joffe, author of the new book Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease:  Keep Working Girlfriend! (Demos Medical Publishing, 2008).  Along wit......

What if…?

Over the Labor Day weekend, I reviewed some information I received from a local disability rep (and friend), Bill Thome, M.S.W, regarding the SSI and SSDI process.  Although I have taken the sel......

Telling Our Own Stories

As I read Rosalind’s (aka cicoach) latest blog entry about a Hollywood producer, I couldn’t help but notice some points that we will be applying to our blog topics this week. First, Rosalind’s w......

Greasing The Wheel

Today, Stephen Paget, M.D submitted a video on Medscape  expressing  his concerns regarding the latest results in clinical research trials of a few of the 20 new potential therapies for lupus. H......

Working and Chronic Illness

I recently stumbled onto something for those of you who are trying to balance work and managing your illness.  In a blog called “Shifting Careers” in the Small Business section of the New York T......

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