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June 14, 2020

Friendly Fire: How does an Auto-Immune Illness Happen?

by pyrad
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I’ve written a lot now about my health journey this year, where a rare auto-immune disease almost killed me, crippled me, put my family through hell, and how I’ve spent over a year trying to get my life back together. This has been a frightening but motivating journey for me. Many questions have hounded me over these long, trying months: What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen to me? How do I prevent it from happening again? How can I help my friends and family avoid similarly debilitating illnesses? I refuse to believe some diagnoses that I was just[…continue reading]