Whirl Away Girl

Book excerpt: The Diagnosis: You have an Autoimmune Disease. The Question: How are You? What is this new life you have been handed? Where does it lead? How do you even feel? Sometimes the pathway ahead is murky, seemingly impossible to pass through. Life throws you a twist you didn't see, know or desire. In the midst of adversity, how do you cope? How do you process? How do you move forward? Join this poetic journey of intimate details through the ache of life's unraveling, from the maddening free fall of diagnosis, to emerging and seeing the beautiful possibilities of living with chronic illness. Whirl away, arms wide to embrace what is yet to come...