THANK YOU!!!

Hello Friends & Family!!

Sisters Against Lupus would like to THANK YOU for helping us set another record breaking year at the 5th Annual Walk To Cure Lupus Walkathon on last Saturday!! With over 200 registered Walkers Team SAL raised a total of $10,328!!!

It was a beautiful sunny day in Seattle shared by a few of our supporters: Seattle Seahawks Jordan Babineaux, David Loud from Congressman Jim McDermotts Office & those sassy little ladies of Sweet Mahogany Drill Team!!

Whatever part you played, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts!! We are one step closer to finding a CURE!!!

Your Sisters,

Yedit & Kawanna

Seattle Seahawks Jordan Babineaux walked with SAL

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May 10th is World Lupus Day!!

May 10th is World Lupus Day

Let's kill Lupus before it kills us!!

Reminder, this Saturday May 14th 9AM @ Alki Beach join us as we WALK TO CURE LUPUS. Invite your friends, family & co-workers to join us in the fight to kill Lupus.  Not to late to register, click HERE to get registered or shoot us an email at sistersagainstlupus@gmail.com and we can add your name to the list of walkers :) 

Shirts for the walk will be available the morning of the walk.  Donations can be made in advance by clicking HERE.   Also accepting money raised to go towards research until the day of the walk, so lets raise funds to kill lupus. 

Your sisters,
Yedit & Koopie

Symptoms of Lupus

Because lupus can affect so many different organs, a wide range of symptoms can occur. These symptoms may come and go, and different symptoms may appear at different times during the course of the disease.

The most common symptoms of lupus are:

* extreme fatigue (tiredness)

* headaches

* painful or swollen joints

* fever

* anemia (low numbers of red blood cells or hemoglobin, or low total blood volume)

* swelling (edema) in feet, legs, hands, and/or around eyes

* pain in chest on deep breathing (pleurisy)

* butterfly-shaped rash across cheeks and nose

* sun- or light-sensitivity (photosensitivity)

* hair loss                                                                                                          

* abnormal blood clotting

* fingers turning white and/or blue when cold (Raynaud’s phenomenon)

* mouth or nose ulcers

Many of these symptoms occur in other illnesses besides lupus. In fact, lupus is sometimes called "the great imitator" because its symptoms are often like the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, blood disorders, fibromyalgia, diabetes, thyroid problems, Lyme disease, and a number of heart, lung, muscle, and bone diseases.  

Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys.