>>A woman in my AA group who I like a lot has lupus. It sounds like a nasty disease to have. Among other things she is in chronic pain. I wish I could magically make the pain go away.
Lupus is one of those areas where we don't know what we don't know. We're at the point of trying to deduce the cause and cure for the Black Plague. Everybody professes competence but some "cures" are futile while others are close to the truth through intuition or good fortune and sometimes even research.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
