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What You Should Know About Lupus 
This Lupus Awareness Month, we encourage you to team up with the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and Lupus LA to spread public awareness of this often misdiagnosed and misunderstood disease. Each Monday, we send you an email featuring important information on a specific topic in lupus, as well as updates on awareness events and fundraisers. Please forward these emails to your friends and family members to help them learn more about lupus.
In about half of people with lupus, the disease attacks the brain and spinal cord. Lupus can also affect the peripheral nervous system, which is made up of the nerve fibers that give skin and muscles the power for feeling and movement. These developments can be very frightening and frustrating. Thankfully, there are steps a person can take to make things easier. Doctors who specialize in these complications are called "neurologists."
What is the most common kind of lupus
brain involvement? Many people with
lupus -- at least one in five -- have trouble
thinking clearly at some point and
experiences memory problems, confusion,
fatigue, or difficulty expressing thoughts.
Called cognitive dysfunction, the condition
likely occurs because blood stops flowing as
smoothly to the brain as it should. More
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Central Park Goes Orange for New York Pumpkin Festival and Lupus Awareness Month 
Join us in Central Park on Saturday, October 27th as we give away 7,500 pumpkins in partnership with Camp Sunshine and the New York City Parks Department This Saturday, visitors to the world's most famous park will see more than just pumpkin-colored leaves on the trees as Central Park gets decked in orange for the first-ever Camp Sunshine New York Pumpkin Festival. Thousands of pumpkins and bright orange lupus awareness wristbands will be distributed by the Foundation at the all-day family event that will feature the largest jack-o-lantern display in the city's history, as well as live music, face painting, and pumpkin carving. The festival is organized by the City of New York Parks & Recreation Department and Camp Sunshine, a national retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. The event begins at noon and ends at 8:00 p.m., with the lighting of the jack-o-lantern display at 5:30 p.m. Visitors should enter through the 72nd street entrance on Central Park West. As a presenting sponsor and long-time partner of Camp Sunshine, the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation will host the festival's Pumpkin Patch and give away gourds to the first 7,500 attendees. Since October is Lupus Awareness Month, the Foundation will also be passing out lupus wristbands and fact cards, and signing up new members to spread awareness of the often-misunderstood autoimmune disease that affects more than 1.5 million women, men and children nationwide. "For the past eight summers, we have sent New York City kids affected by lupus and their families to Camp Sunshine for a much-needed week of joy, peace and relaxation," said S.L.E. Lupus Foundation Executive Director, Margaret Dowd. "The Pumpkin Festival offers an exciting opportunity for our organization to help bring New Yorkers together for a fun day in the park to support a wonderful cause and to educate more people about lupus." The New York Pumpkin Festival is free and open to the public. For more information and directions, call the Foundation at 212-685-4118 or visit the Pumpkin Festival website.
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Join Us in the Fight Against Lupus! 
Take the opportunity this lupus awareness month to become a member of the S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and help to increase public awareness, provide education, and fund research leading to new treatments and a cure for lupus. JOIN NOW »
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