kimp

Hi, I stumbled on this site by accident as someone had left it up on a computer at work. We lost my mom 12years ago at age 55 to CC, but didn’t know it until the autopsy. She suffered for many years with lupus and severe emphysema yet never smoked. Her Lfts were always elevated but explained away by the fact that the drugs she took for her lupus- imuran, methotrexate etc. elevated Lfts. In the end she was hospitalized with extreme shortness of breath and shortly there after was in multi system organ failure and decided to withdraw treatment. Her doctors requested the autopsy as she was such an autoimmune puzzle, they believed at the time it was all related to the lupus. The autopsy results were that her liver was full and she was throwing tumor emboli to her lungs. A shocker! So here we are now her 3 children still wondering about the hereditary component and the possibility of an autoimmune relationship. This site will be a resource for us for new research information & personal experiences. How great that I found you all. To all you fighting stay strong & fight hard!