LUPUS = Lift Up, Persevere, Use Strength: A Lupus Warrior's Story of Hope, Spirit and Fortitude

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Rachel Lea

LUPUS = Lift Up, Persevere, Use Strength

A Lupus Warrior's Story of Hope, Spirit and Fortitude

Rachel Lea

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Busybird Publishing
23 July 2020

Biography; Immunology; Coping with illness

"This is Rachel Lea's experience of living with Lupus.

I didn't have time to be a moody, sullen or ungrateful teenager. I had skipped that station. I was fast-tracked to a place where having

perspective and wisdom were needed if I was to join this army of chemical warfare and be at peace with the uncontrollable changes that had

happened to me ... I was lucky because for the first time since I had become unwell, I was able to

take medication that was trying to save my life. I didn't want to let my army down. And so, my new life as a Lupus Warrior had truly begun.""

In 1989, inexplicably, Rachel Lea went from being a quiet but energetic, conscientious and healthy fourteen-year-old girl to being incapacitated,

bedridden and with severe chronic joint and muscle pains. Suffering from a mysterious, debilitating disease, her struggle to find solutions to her ailment was fraught with distress, misdiagnoses and experimental treatments.

Rachel chronicles her journey from the first appearance of symptoms to a confirmed lupus diagnosis, as well as her ability to adjust to life with an incurable, chronic disease as a teenager. With the loving support system of family that lifted her up, Rachel found hope and perspective in achieving her dream of becoming a secondary school teacher. Lupus = Lift Up, Persevere and Use Strength is a raw, moving and uplifting memoir - essential reading for Lupus Warriors, members of their support systems and for those who want to learn more about lupus and a Lupus Warrior's fortitude in living life with courage, always trying to find the silver lining."

By: Rachel Lea
Imprint: Busybird Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 331g
ISBN: 9781925949889
ISBN 10: 1925949885
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 23 July 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Lea has worked as a VCE Health and Human Development and Food Technology teacher for 20 years in the Victorian Government secondary school system. She has had previous written works published in VCE Biology texts and various Deakin University magazines. Lupus = Lift-Up, Persevere and Use Strength is her first book. She is currently taking an absence from teaching due to her current health battles. She lives in Melbourne's outer-North with her cute rescue cat, Squeak.