MCTD Support Group
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) or Sharp's syndrome is a human autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body. MCTD combines features of polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes joint pain/swelling, Raynaud phenomenon, muscle inflammation, and scarring of...
Not believing your compassion is gone-- it just stepped out for a cigarette.
Rant away. If we can never say what's in our hearts, if we run from the darkness, it can overwhelm us more easily.
You are still helping us. Your poetry brings out what we all feel sometimes. It allows us all to feel that pain, but then we have the strength to go on. Come along with us. Go on with us. We need you.
Mary Ann
-Kate
I second what you've written and others have commented on so eloquently. Life can absolutely feel like war.
How are your leg and hip doing?
AnnMarie