The first thing most people do when they have any sort of medical-related question is head to Google.

We Google symptoms and try to self-diagnosis. We search for causes and treatments.

Then you get a diagnosis and head back to Google. What does the diagnosis mean? How are others living with this particular illness? What adjustments are needed? What does the day-to-day look like?

That’s what I did, back in November 2011, when I received my autoimmune disease diagnosis. 

Except Google didn’t have a lot of resources available. My autoimmune condition is rare, and there wasn’t a whole lot of available information out there.

Click here to be re-directed to TheMighty.com to read my recently published essay, “The Article I Wish I’d Read After My Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease Diagnosis.”