Anyway, Sjogren’s disease is rough. It’s not terminal, but it definitely impacts my overall quality of life and also I spend a ton of money on lotions and at the dentist every year.

- that preconceived notion of this just being a simple “dry eyes/dry mouth” symptom rather than a systemic disease with many complicated and under-explored complications and effects.

Dry mouth/dry eyes are annoying, but stress will set everything in my body into attack mode and it’s *painful*

It’s hard coming to terms with how significant of an effect my autoimmune disease has on my body.

In the last year, my specific condition changed from a Syndrome to a Disease and, while it’s gratifying to see my disease get more publicity and discussion, it’s also hard because so many people have -

Very clearly they are not growing pains, as I stopped growing almost 20 years ago but still I suffer

For context, for those who might want it: I was talking about how this documentary series is called “Buried Secrets of the Bible” it’s a SERIES but only TWO episodes about TWO different Bible stories. Idk how my KoC comment makes sense but I stand by it