I came across the following the other day on the
Scleroderma New Zealand facebook page and I thought that it is too good not to share here also 🙂
Scleroderma – A Life in Pain and Stone. Written by Diane Begley.
This picture is such a great sculpture to bring awareness and understanding.
It is straight to the point, this is what it does to us!
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue featuring skin thickening, spontaneous scarring, blood vessel disease, varying degrees of inflammation, associated with an overactive immune system.
Autoimmune diseases are illnesses which occur when the body’s tissues are attacked by its own immune system.
Scleroderma is characterized by the formation of scar tissue (fibrosis) in the skin and organs of the body. This leads to thickness and firmness of involved areas. Scleroderma, when it’s diffuse or widespread over the body, is also referred to as systemic sclerosis.
As many of you are aware this is a journey that I am on to not only get an understanding of how it is affecting my body, but also what measures, medications etc. I need to adopt to ensure that I get fullness in life.
You can read about some of my journey thus far
here, or check out the following;
You can also check out the
latest newsletter produced by Scleroderma New Zealand here.
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Scleroderma – A Life in Pain and Stone. Written by Diane Begley.
This picture is such a great sculpture to bring awareness and understanding.
It is straight to the point, this is what it does to us!
Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue featuring skin thickening, spontaneous scarring, blood vessel disease, varying degrees of inflammation, associated with an overactive immune system.
Autoimmune diseases are illnesses which occur when the body’s tissues are attacked by its own immune system.
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