MY BAD BARGAIN WITH RAFFA IN 2012

MY BAD BARGAIN WITH RAFFA IN  2012

Seven years ago I was seriously ill in a Sydney Hospital with a hideous, undiagnosed condition. It was affecting my brain, my heart, my muscles…. and just about everything else. Part of my stabilizing medication was a very high dose of the steroid Prednisone. Among the  side

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CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME

CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME

 A  RARE AND BAFFLING ILLNESS – CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME! Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS)  is a form of vasculitis  (inflammation of the blood vessels) . It was first described by  Jacob Churg and Lotte Strauss  at  New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, in 1951.  Coincidently, this was  the year

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