“I want to encourage those runners that do have lupus or any other chronic disease that running can still be done—don’t be scared of it.'
from my diagnosis. The first six months were really hard for me. But I eventually found friends who had lupus that were my age that I could talk to about it and help me with what my life was like now with lupus.”Halse graduated and continued pursuing her veterinary medicine education, with hopes of becoming a veterinary ophthalmologist. It was there during vet school in Boston where she swapped swimming for running.
“My symptoms had been relatively controlled since 2005, but my breathing problems became more significant during vet school,” she says. “I would breathe deeply, it would hurt really badly. The first five minutes of my runs were the most painful, but as my lungs expanded more, it would become less and less painful. I usually have to run really slowly and force myself to take deep breaths to make runs easier.”Besides her breathing problems, her lupus remained mainly dormant.
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