I had a feeling you were going to say Lupus about Queen Anne's face. My moms best friend's daughter who lives far away has been dealing with Lupus for 30 years now. She had that butterfly rash many times. She has had a kidney transplant and has been in a wheelchair for the past 10 years now. Her mom told her that she got Lupus because of a medication that her mom had to take when she was pregnant with her. I don;t remember the name of that medication. Eoulizumab costs $500,000 per year? Insane! Sometimes the medication you take can cause more severe symptoms or diseases that are worse than you already have. And what really makes me mad is when doctors put a band-aide on the problem with medications instead of getting to the bottom of what caused your symptoms.

What you wrote about low levels of C4 was very interesting. I will have to get those levels checked when I get my next blood test done. I am sorry to hear about all of the diseases that run in your family. Thank goodness they have you for their advocate. Very informative post and well done @agmoore! Great chart that you made too. : )

P.S. Remember your post about Polio and I told you that when I was a child, we were given sugar cubes as a vaccine for polio? Well, the prompt for one of the freewrites was, of all things, "sugar cubes" and I wrote about the polio sugar cubes. While writing I did remember a few other things about it. I thought you might in interested in reading it...read only...do not upvote please!

Stay warm and well AG! Hugs!