“It Feels Like I’ve Had a Bad Flu for Years”: Nele (36) Learned to Live with the Autoimmune Disease Lupus

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“You can do whatever you want, but your body is crashing.” Nele Delbare (36) received this warning after she continued working with lupus. In the month in which attention is being drawn worldwide to this autoimmune disease, which mainly affects young women, she tells how it affects her life. “That feeling you get when you have a bad flu? I felt that at first and it has never really gone away.”