Our Christmas meal was a big success this year, with thirteen of us coming along to it. Pinocchio’s was a great venue to have it at and the food there was excellent. They set aside a large table for us upstairs, in the more private, quieter (until we got there!) section of the restaurant. The Christmas meal gave us all the chance to relax, have a laugh and enjoy a good get together before our Christmas break.

At the end of the meal the group very kindly gave me a card and a gift for to say thank you for the work I’ve done for Lupus Brighton and Hove over 2013 -it was much appreciated -Thank you to you all!!

If you’d like to see more of the photos from the Christmas meal, then please go to the gallery.

On Friday 6th December, we had a very interesting talk by Professor Davies on “Lupus and the Brain”. It was held in the meeting room of the Medical Teaching building at Brighton and Sussex Medical School which is on the Falmer campus. The staff there very kindly provided us with teas, coffees and biscuits for this event. We’d like to thank Lisa Costick for organising the room and refreshments for this event and Professor Davies for very kindly giving up his time, to do this talk for us.

The talk generated a lot of interest within the group and was well attended by fourteen of our members, with about four others who would have come, but for illness or prior engagements.

We all found this talk very informative and we learnt much about the different ways in which SLE can affect the brain and how hard it can be for doctors to know if symptoms such as depression, confusion and fatigue are caused by SLE itself or a result of living with a chronic disease.

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