Lisa Ray Instagram – Posted @withregram • @myhealthmusings Last year after my surgery doctors began giving me meds which I didn’t really know about. Getting a dose of cyclophosphamide wasn’t a big deal and nor was the IV. It was routine I was told. When I read up medical journals online this was the contemporary treatment for SLE. At that time I really wanted to be able to talk about falling sick and about treatment in general. To be able to talk about it would give me control of the narrative even if everything was out of my control. I hoped I would be able to talk about my experience so someone out there felt like they had a voice too. Fast forward to when I heard @lisaraniray s book #closetothebone on @audible It was moving,insightful and just very entertaining. A general fun book about illness and recovery that I wish I had written. Her story is truly engaging and her struggles were truly her own. But I could relate. I could feel her struggles,her growth. Her infectious energy cake through in her writing which might I add was just so well put together. Fast forward to now. The physical copy of her book just arrived in the mail and I’m even more excited to read it this time around. And I hope that someday I could write as eloquently as her. Even if it was a story I read to myself when things got tough ,I would be happy to go down memory lane and draw the insights Lisa has drawn so effortlessly through her journey! Please go find a copy. Additionally get the audio book. As someone who’s lived in Delhi,travelled quite a bit to Bombay and seen glimpses of Calcutta from memory everything she wrote about felt like home. #systematiclupuserythematosis #sle #lupus #autoimmune #closetothebone #lisaray