Surviving LUPUS

The theme/prompt for this week, May 19, is:
TAILS – “Brave”

Tell about a time when you felt brave or showed bravery. (This is TAILS so it needs to be a true/real post from your own life.)

This are the moments in my life that I felt brave :

• When I was 15 years old I loss both of my parents to disease. They died 12 days apart, just months before I enter college. After their death, the three of us (my older brother and sister) decided to move to a different location and start a new life. We really don’t know much about life at that time because we were sheltered.
• When I was 22 years old I was diagnosed with LUPUS, a unpopular, incurable but controllable disease. For someone who is scared of syringes and injection I was subjected to numerous blood extraction, blood transfusion and even two operation. Now, I can even look at the syringe when blood is being extracted from my arm.
• When I was 26 years old, I decided to marry the man who never gave up on me even though I have given up on myself. A year after I have given birth to our bundle of joy via CS because at that time I was already suffering from pre eclampsia. The surgery is also a leap of faith since there is a possibility of a having a blood clot again. If that happens my case would be fatal.

I think this are the times when I felt brave. But I think its not only bravery that help me out during this times but also our faith that God will be on our side along the way.

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