Doctors Thought This Mother Had Everything From Ringworm to Leukemia. After 19 Years She Was Finally Diagnosed with Lupus
For nearly two decades, Nyobie Gordon-Ricks lived in a ghost story. The antagonist was her own body; the haunting was a shifting phantasm of symptoms that no one—not her family, and certainly not her doctors—seemed to believe was real. Before the name “lupus” finally gave shape to her suffering in 2010, Gordon-Ricks had been told…