From lupus to love and back again, H2W style
Erin Story was exhausted and her hair was falling out. She would break out into a horrible rash when exposed to the sun – even though she wore sunscreen. A doctor assumed the 36-year-old Missouri woman was a hypochondriac or had some old-school version of female hysteria. But Story knew her body better. Something was horribly wrong. Story was tested for systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune inflammatory disease where the body’s immune system attacks its own healthy tissues – but the test came back negative. At the advice of a physician friend, Story saw another doctor who ran the test again....