Wow has it been a year already

Well it has been over a year since I created this blog and there has been alot that has happened not only to me but with my family. Lets start with some of the happier things that have happened . My oldest daughter Nichole got married to her true love Craig and now they are expecting their first child she is due October 7 2010. I'm hoping it will be a girl, but even if it's a boy I will be just as happy. I'm really looking forward to being a grandma and I'm very happy that I am alive to see it. My health has not been that good. I was diagnosed with Lupus SLE in October 1997. They discovered that I had Lupus when I went to the doctors because my joints were hurting, they would wake me up at night. They ran some blood work and the PA said well I think you may have Lupus and that I needed to see a Rheumatologist. That was just the beginning. At that time I had just met my current husband we bought a book on lupus and that the survival rate was about ten years I told him if he wanted to leave now was the time, well we will be married 11 years this August. And he is a great guys. Along with the Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis my rheumy discovered that I had Sjogren's Syndrome. Wow that was alot to absorb. I had never heard of these diseases before well expect the arthritis because my mom has it. But lupus, sjogrens what was that? I have found that most people that I talk to don't know what lupus is, they say I've heard of it before but I'm not sure what it really is and forget about sjogrens syndrome anytime I've gone to the ER and I tell them what I have they don't even know what sjogrens is and I have to tell them. I now you want to know what it is I will go into detail about it in another posting. Lupus is an autoimmune disease and sjogrens is basically dry eyes and dry mouth. I promise to write more tomorrow