Today was not a good day. My wife starting throwing up early this morning and was soon also having really bad diarrhea. This kind of thing is awful for anyone, but for a lupus patient, it’s even worse. The major problem was that she couldn’t take any of her medication. If you are used to taking high doses of pain medication throughout the day and you don’t get to, that’s not good. Really not good.

I did my best to keep her from getting dehydrated, using ice chips before moving on to water. She seems to be feeling a little better, but now she has a whole day where she’s missed most of her medication.