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Thank You: Letter to the Editor

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Dear Mike,

Chris and I would like to thank you for posting my lupus story last spring. The positive exposure helped us to raise $7,400 for the Lupus Foundation of America to help find a cure. We greatly appreciated your assistance in our endeavors. It provided an exceptional forum for us to obtain extra contributions for such a great charity. Since you posted the article, people have become more aware of lupus, reached out to me personally and this year we are off to a great start and have been able to raise $1,535 for the Lupus Foundation of America.

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Letter: A Walk to End Lupus on This Long, Bumpy Road

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It’s been a long, bumpy road to realizing that I have lupus. It all started with a sun rash that appeared after spending a week at the beach in the early 1990s. My dermatologist said I had sun poisoning. That seemed unusual, as I have spent many years at the beach before without any issues. At my next visit to the dermatologist, I was diagnosed and treated for rosacea, and received antibiotics and cream to treat this.