Life Of A
Lupie's Mom
By Nisa Mathurin
A
bsolutely no one can make it happen.
No one person will ever understand
what you are going through. Do you
even know how you do it? Or even understand
how you make it through? I made it through
because of the Almighty God above who
strengthened and directed my path.
I became a mother of a lupie in 2012 and
everything around me seemed like a horror
movie. But I didn’t give up. I didn’t allow my
daughters 'wolf' to get the better of me. I didn’t
lose control. Instead, I stood up and I faced this
monster head on.
Yes, there were days when I lived in denial. Days
when I just couldn’t accept it. But then I realized
I needed to be the source of strength not only for
me but for my entire family. I had to get it
together.
As the year slowly creeped by and we slowly
accepted the monster, the wolf, the lupus, as a
pet in our lives, he became comfortable. And
when we least expected, he betrayed us.
Lupus was eating up my daughter slowly to the
point that she was hospitalized for many months
until our local doctors gave up and we had to be
airlifted to Martinique.
February 15, 2015, my daughter suffered with
hemolytic uremic syndrome (a kidney condition
that happens when red blood cells are destroyed
and block the kidneys' filtering system).
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