Join us in congratulating Tierra! Tierra has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Tierra’s essay below: As a mother of two young children and living with scleroderma for over a decade, I have firsthand experience of the impacts of adversity that can come with not only having Scleroderma but also being female and a person of color. Through the many ups and downs over the years, I have learned the importance of resilience, wellness, faith and perseverance that have helped shape myself, my family and my community for the better. Scleroderm ..read more

Join us in congratulating Halee! Halee has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Halee’s essay below: How Scleroderma Has Changed My Life Death. That is how Scleroderma changed my life. As you read my application, you can see that I am affected by this ailment. I am not dead. Physically, that is. Death is a spectrum. The first time I began dying was in October of 2019. The symptoms arrived on a crisp fall day. At the time, I was big into photography. I dragged my younger sister to the local park so I could take her picture. On our way ho ..read more

Join us in congratulating Makayla! Makayla has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Makayla’s essay below: Overcoming Chronic Illness The soft smells of antiseptic grew stronger as my skinny, fatigued body lay motionless on the white sheets. Cold IV fluids pumped through my veins, and a nasogastric tube transported nutrition to my neglected stomach. Monitors endlessly beeped throughout the long summer nights as my heartbeat dropped well below its average rate. Nurses regularly came in with a myriad of medications for my tiny frame to co ..read more

Join us in congratulating Stephanie! Stephanie has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Stephanie’s essay below: How Scleroderma changed my life “You know, that artist Seal grows patches like yours too”, my mom whispered to me in the fluorescent waiting room. I nodded as if I knew who Seal was, I was twelve. We were sitting in a dermatologist’s office, the name of which I can’t recall, I was too nervous to remember anything. I think about my past appointments, sitting on the zoo-animal print exam table while several student doctors ques ..read more

Join us in congratulating Roxanne! Roxanne has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Roxanne’s essay below: “What’s wrong with your nose?” my Kindergarten best friend asked me. I blinked at her in confusion, not understanding what she meant. Later that day, I arrived home from school and immediately bolted to the bathroom mirror, staring at myself from every angle possible. This was a common question that people ask me. “I don’t know, it’s just like that,” I would respond, ignoring the difficult truth. The truth is that I have been unsym ..read more

Join us in congratulating Grace! Grace has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see. You can read Grace’s essay below: “Have you tried to wash the dirt off your forehead?” asked my mom from the other room. “Mom, seriously, you’re being ridiculous, I’ve been trying!” came my annoyed reply. An hour of furious scrubbing culminated in our joint decision that I must have a birthmark, or possibly some sort of bizarre sun tan that created the darkened line right down the center of my forehead. I called my mom crazy: that she was being paranoid for dragging me t ..read more

We are thrilled to share that Scleroderma Warriors is featured in the Top 15 Sclerdomera Blogs! Check out the list of the Top 15 Scleroderma blogs here, on Feedspot’s website.   The post Scleroderma Warriors featured in Feedspot Top 15 Scleroderma Blogs appeared first on Scleroderma Warriors ..read more

Our 2022 Scleroderma Warriors Scholarships have been awarded! Join us in congratulating Serenity! Serenity has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see how Scleroderma has changed her life. You can read Serenity’s essay below: “How Scleroderma Has Changed My Life” How has Scleroderma changed my life..? Well this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute, just get seated in your chair.. to tell you all how Scleroderma has become my one big affair. January 25th, 2021 is the date that started it all…. the ..read more

Our 2022 Scleroderma Warriors Scholarships have been awarded! Join us in congratulating Braxtyn! Braxtyn has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see how Scleroderma has changed her life. You can read Braxtyn’s essay below: “How Scleroderma Has Changed My Life” Scleroderma has changed my life in so many ways, the biggest of those; how I now see the world. This disease has changed me for the better and for the worse. Maintaining the positives of my new life is the best way to coup with my circumstances. Scleroderma made its appearance in my life subtly in ..read more

Our 2022 Scleroderma Warriors Scholarships have been awarded! Join us in congratulating Katie. Katie has been kind enough to allow us to share her essay on our website for others to see how Scleroderma has changed her life. You can read Katie’s essay below:  “How Scleroderma Changed My Life” I very distinctly remember the first sign I saw of my mom’s scleroderma. It was the 2020 Homecoming weekend at my undergraduate school, Marietta College. I was a senior and on the Homecoming court, representing our women’s soccer team. My parents had made the trip down to see me and attend the footba ..read more