((( HUGS )))
Grace , your time to smile and put aside health. I wish you many smiles
watching your sister and the memory's of each you will see.
Bruce On. " I order the weather to be bright for her on her day!! "

Hi Grace,
Try to put all worries aside for now. Enjoy every minute of your time away.
Blessings to you and your sister.
BJ-Sk. Canada

Go have fun with the family.

TB is very treatable - not like it used to be. But I sure would hate to see
you have that one. It also takes almost 8 weeks for a lung culture to show
TB. The skin test only shows exposure to TB not actual TB. (TB I know all
about - one daughter is positive for TB.)

So stick TB way off to the side of your mind and enjoy the family. Nothing
like a wedding to get everyone together and in a happy mood. I'll assume you
son and hubby are going, too. Got to show off that great family of yours.
Bev

Grace, ask your rheumatologist about autoimmune vasculitides.  There are
many and very few have tests that are specific for that disease.

Symptoms, blood and urine lab results, radiographs (such as x-ray,
ct-scan, mri, mra) can help decide if one has an autoimmune vasculitis.
If the symptoms abate with prednisone, that is an indicator of an
autoimmune process.

SLE patients sometimes develop a vasculitis that may affect the lungs

VASCULITIDES

PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING LARGE- and MEDIUM-SIZED BLOOD VESSELS
  Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)
  Takayasu's Arteritis
  Temporal Arteritis

PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING MEDIUM-SIZED BLOOD VESSELS
  Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
  Kawasaki's Disease
  Primary CNS Vasculitis
  Thromboangiitis obliterans
  Buerger's disease
   
PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING MEDIUM- and SMALL-SIZED BLOOD VESSELS
ANCA positive
  Churg-Straus Syndrome (CSS)
  Wegener's Granulomatosis (WG)
  # Microscopic Polyangiitis (MPA)
              # Sometimes identified as microscopic polyarteritis

PREDOMINANTLY AFFECTING SMALL-SIZED BLOOD VESSELS
ANCA negative
  Henoch-Schoenlein Purpura (HSP)
  Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis
  Essential cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
  ## Anti GBM disease (Goodpasture's disease)
  Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
               ## (some may have positive ANCA)

DISEASES THAT MAY BE AUTOIMMUNE VASCULITIDES OR HAVE SOME
SYMPTOMS SIMILAR TO AUTOIMMUNE VASCULITIS
  Hypersensitivity Vasculitis
  Rheumatoid Vasculitis
  Relapsing Polychondritis
  Central Nervous System Vasculitis (CNS)
  Polymyalgia Rheumatica
  Cogan's Syndrome
  Necrotizing Sarcoid Granuloma (NSG)
  Behcet's Disease

OTHER AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES THAT MAY HAVE SOME SYMPTOMS SIMILAR TO
AUTOIMMUNE VASCULITIS OR ARE PERHAPS SUPERSEDED TERMINOLOGY
  Necrotizing Respiratory Granulomatosis   
  Pathergic Granulomatosis
  Lupus Eurythematosis
  Lethal Midline Granuloma
  #Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
    # Causes necrotizing respiratory vasculitis