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... All of these reactions are believed to be the case with (Mary) Flannery O’Connor. Although O’Connor’s struggle with lupus is widely undocumented, the disease is quite researched. Caroline Gordon published O’Connor’s cause of death at the young age of thirty-nine as lupus (in Fried-man 125). Though her struggles are largely unknown, Flannery O’Connor suffered a great deal because of lupus. ... He lost his life to lupus in 1941, a mere three years after diagnosis, and when Flannery was just fourteen. Flannery attended Peabody High School and then the Georgia State College for Women where she was editor of a student-led newspa-per. ... Upon being diagnosed with lupus, she returned home to Georgia, where her mother cared for her. ...
Lupus is a disease that falls into the category of “don’t have it, don’t care.” Most people are not fully aware of the extent of damage that lupus causes, or what it is. The Lupus Foundation of America’s fact sheet offers two definitions. The first is “lupus is a widespread and chronic (lifelong) autoimmune disease that, for unknown reasons, causes the immune system to attack the body’s own tissue and organs, including the joints, kidneys, heart, lungs, brain, blood, or skin” (Fact 1). ... The first form, which affects ten percent of all lupus sufferers, is discoid, or cutaneous lupus. ... Systemic lupus affects approximately 70% of all those di-agnosed with lupus. ... Over 50% of systemic lupus cases affect major organs. Systemic lupus of the joints is painful and often misdiagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis, although it can be treated with similar medi-cations. ... Drug-induced lupus affects another 10% and is triggered by the use of certain prescription drugs, and therefore the symptoms usually fade when the use of the medication stops. Symptoms are similar to that of systemic lupus. It is important to note that the percentage of indi-viduals who get drug-induced lupus is very small, and, more often than not, helps physi-cians to correctly diagnose a previously erroneously diagnosed disease. Simply put, although it is not a common practice in the medical field, medicines can be prescribed to further conclude that a patient has lupus (Fact 1). The last form of lupus is called Mixed Connective Tissue Disease, abbreviated to MCTD. ... MCTD affects the other ten percent of lupus patients (Fact 1).
Although the average person probably has heard of lupus, he or she most likely does not know much more than the name. ... Lupus is two to three times more prominent in the African American, Hispanic, Asian and Native American population than all other ethnicities (Fact 1). Lupus is not contagious, rare, or infectious (Lahita). ...
Because of lupus’ many forms, the difficulty involved in diagnosis, and because it is nearly impossible to know what triggered the disease, there are many misconceptions about the disease.
Approximate Word count = 2398
Approximate Pages = 9.6
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