Lupus Detention House [LATEST]

By [Your Name]

We are serving a life sentence. But we are not dead yet. And as long as my heart is still beating—even if it is beating out of rhythm due to lupus myocarditis—I will be scratching tally marks on the wall. lupus detention house

Living in the Lupus Detention House has taught me a brutal kind of grace. I have stopped fighting for the parole of "being cured." Instead, I fight for commutation —the reduction of a sentence. By [Your Name] We are serving a life sentence

For the uninitiated, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease. In plain English: my immune system, the very guard dog meant to protect me from intruders (viruses, bacteria, infections), has gone rogue. It can no longer tell the difference between a foreign invader and my own tissue. Living in the Lupus Detention House has taught