{"id":5041,"date":"2022-05-18T19:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2022-05-18T20:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T20:33:55","slug":"second-annual-living-with-lupus-march-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/second-annual-living-with-lupus-march-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Annual Living With Lupus March Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rachelle Roy was diagnosed with discoid lupus in 2005 and was quietly living with the discomfort and the drop in self esteem the condition caused for about 15 years before deciding that it was time to do something about the public\u2019s indifference to the disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to do a walk for many, many years,\u201d says Roy. \u201cI had been getting perturbed about the lack of attention lupus has been getting, so it made me reach out.\u201d<\/p>\n

So last year, she did something about it in a big way. She organized the first Living With Lupus Walk in Ottawa Park and managed to bring together dozens for that inaugural gathering.<\/p>\n

This year the walk will be held the weekend of May 21-22 and will be, in all ways, bigger and more varied than the 2021 version.<\/p>\n

This year, the whole weekend will be devoted to Roy\u2019s effort to increase lupus awareness in the Toledo area.<\/p>\n

On Saturday at noon, Roy is partnering with the Corvette Club and joining their parade \u2013 starting at Collingwood and moving along all the way to Club Evolution on Reynolds.<\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, there will be a bowling fundraiser at the New Glass Bowl on Telegraph, starting at 8 pm.<\/p>\n

The Walk will be held at Ottawa Park on Sunday morning at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

Especially bigger, Roy anticipates, will be the donation the weekend raises for the Lupus Foundation of America, Greater Ohio Chapter \u2013 bigger than the $2,000 she was able to donate last year to the Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople got interested in helping, which is what I wanted to do \u2013 they weren\u2019t doing that prior to the walk. We got people motivated to doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff Rachelle Roy was diagnosed with discoid lupus in 2005 and was quietly living with the discomfort and the drop in self esteem the condition caused for about 15 years before deciding that it was time to do something about the public\u2019s indifference to the disease. \u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to do a walk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[121],"class_list":["post-5041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5041\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5041"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}