My battle with lupus

Georgina Wambui a surivor of Lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system becomes hyperactive and attacks normal, healthy tissue during the interview with The Standard.PHOTO DAVID NJAAGA/STANDARD}

Georgina Wambui has wrestled with lupus for over four decades. After many years of distress, pain and desperation, the illness was only diagnosed in 2009. She shares her story with LUCY MARONCHA

I can only describe living with lupus as horrendous. I deal with severe pain, acute fatigue, memory lapses and sometimes temporal muscle paralysis. Lupus imitates a myriad of sicknesses hence before it was diagnosed; my family and I had spent a fortune treating the wrong diseases.