Rotten Lemons....

Am I the only one that sometimes feels like every way I turn, something or someone is coming at you?  Me, yes, yes I do. For the last few months I have felt like I can't get a break.

A few weeks back I uploaded this picture to Instagram & Twitter:

Yes, this is my life at the moment!  High blood pressure, migraines that are about the make me lose my mind, & a face that is reacting to all these things. Oh, wait it gets better because that couldn't be enough.

Back, during the Summer I noticed I had a place right above my right eye that wouldn't tan. At, first I didn't think anything about it. I figured that the last time I got my eyebrows waxed that the wax was to hot and burnt me. As, time went on it never got better & still wouldn't tan. Over, Labor Day weekend I noticed the area had spread and at this point start getting really concerned. I called, made an appointment & headed to the dermatologist.  At, first the doctor thought it could be sun damage, but after another visit the doctor realized it wasn't sun damage it is actually a skin disease called Vitiligo.

Vitiligo, is a pigmentation disorder in which melanocytes (the cells that make pigment) in the skin are destroyed. As a result, white patches appear on the skin in different parts of the body. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease -- a disease in which a person's immune system reacts against the body's own organs or tissues.  It has been found that emotional distress triggered vitiligo.  My doctor has traced it back to this past Spring.  In, April of this year my blood pressure went extremely high.  I was as close to having a stroke as I ever want to be.

As, the pigmentation of my skin changes so, will my hair color.  My eyebrows have already started turning white and eventually my eyelashes will too. For you that REALLY know me and know I go NO WHERE without my make up on...yea, you can bet you will never see me without it now :)
 I am lucky that I am two things: 1) A girl!  I color my hair every 6 weeks so, my wonderful hairdresser has talked to me and informed me we can color my eyebrows too! 2) I am of the white race so, the only time most people will see anything is when I am tanning.  Again, glad to be a girl....makeup will SO come in handy :) 

I am not going to lie I have had a couple of pitty parties, but things will be fine.  I am researching all about Vitiligo and trying my best to learn more about it.
I AM BLESSED at the end of the day and I don't forget that.  I have a friend with a child that lives with CF everyday.  In the last week I have learned of three friends who are losing their parents to Cancer.  I read blogs everyday of couples who have lost children to awful diseases.  If, the color of my skin wants to change - then you know what I will put my big girl pants on a deal with it :)

LIFE GOES ON ~ It's what you do with those lemons that are being thrown at you!!