This site has three parts: my writing, a growing lupus resource, and a record of years of cakes. All of it comes from one person, so it is fair to want to know who that person is before you read any of it.
Nothing here is medical advice. It is one person’s writing plus a set of sourced references. Bring any decision about your care to your own clinician. The full disclaimer is further down this page.
Why an about page matters more here
On most sites the about page is a formality. On a health site it is the whole foundation. If you landed here from a search at two in the morning, you are being asked to trust a stranger about something that affects your body — and you have no way to check that trust unless the person writing tells you plainly who they are and what they do and do not know.
So this page tries to answer the honest version of the question. Not credentials, not a mission statement. Who is writing, why they started, what they are careful about, and where the limits of that knowledge sit. If any of it does not hold up, please feel free to close the tab. That is a reasonable thing to do with a stranger on the internet.
Who I am
Coming soon. Keli is writing her own introduction — who she is, and what her days are actually made of.
Life outside of being sick
This section comes before anything about illness on purpose. A diagnosis is not a personality, and this site should not read as though it were.
Coming soon. The parts of her life that have nothing to do with lupus — including a lot of years spent as a pastry chef, which get their own section of this site.
When lupus entered the picture
Coming soon. Her own account of when lupus entered the picture — what she lived, in her words, and only as much of it as she wants public.
Why I started writing
Coming soon. Why she started writing any of this down.
What I hope this site does for you
Coming soon. What she hopes someone walks away with — and what this site is not trying to be for them.
How this site is organized
There are three doors, and they are equals. One is a personal blog. One is a lupus resource. One is years of cakes. They share a roof because they share an author, but they are not the same kind of writing and the site never pretends otherwise.
The blog
My writing, on whatever I am thinking about — illness is one subject among many, not the only one. First person, no footnotes, no obligation to be about anything in particular.
The lupus hub
The resource half: a place to start if you are newly diagnosed, sourced reference entries, and my own lupus writing kept clearly marked as experience.
Keli’s Kakes
Years of cakes from my time as a pastry chef at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale — event by event, with the photos.
Two kinds of writing, deliberately kept apart
Health writing goes wrong in a particular way. Someone describes what happened to them, it is honest and vivid, and by the third share it has quietly turned into advice — as though one person’s experience were a finding. That drift is the thing this site is built to prevent, so the two kinds of writing are separated on purpose and labeled every time:
- Experience — what happened to me. First person, no sources required, because it is one person’s own account of her own life. It never claims the same will happen for you.
- Reference — what the sources say. Written plainly, cited, and carrying a visible confidence label so you can weigh it yourself instead of taking it on faith.
You will always be able to tell which one you are reading. That is the point of the whole arrangement.
What the confidence labels mean
Every entry in the reference layer carries one of these, out in the open on the page:
- A — confirmed with a clinician. Checked directly with a qualified clinician, with the date of that check noted on the entry.
- B — published by a medical body. It comes from a recognized medical organization or published research, and the source is named so you can go read it.
- C — reported by patients. Something people living with lupus say, cited to where it was said and labeled on the page as not evidence. It is included because people say it, labeled so you know that is all it is. It has not been shown to be true.
- D — unverified. Never published here. If a claim cannot get to at least a labeled C, it does not go on the site at all.
These are kinds of source, not a ranking. For a general question, B is the strongest thing on this site, because you can go read the source yourself. Nothing labeled A should be read as a clinician’s advice to you.
Still being settled. Exactly what qualifies an entry for tier A, who does the confirming, and how that is recorded on the page. Until that is written down, nothing publishes as A.
The labels are there so you do not have to guess how much weight to give a page. A confident tone is easy to fake; a named source is not.
Medical disclaimer
It is worth being plain about what this site is not. This site is a personal blog and a reader-facing resource. It is not medical advice, it is not a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional who knows your history. Nothing here should be used to decide whether to start, stop, or change any treatment. Please bring those decisions to your own clinician — and if you think you may be having a medical emergency, contact your local emergency services right away.
One more limit worth stating plainly: nothing on this site claims that anything treats, prevents, or cures lupus or any part of it. Not in an article, not in a heading, not by implication. If you ever find a page here that reads like it does, that is a mistake and it should be reported so it can be fixed.
Getting in touch
The contact form is the way to reach me — there is no email address printed anywhere on this site, on purpose. This site does not answer medical questions and does not give advice about anyone’s treatment.
If you think you may be having a medical emergency, do not use the form. Contact your local emergency services.
Once it is running, what you write will be read by me and will not be published, quoted, or shared with anyone else without asking you first, and it will not be added to any mailing list.
Coming soon. What Keli is willing to promise about reading and answering messages.
Where to go from here
- Start here — if you or someone you love was recently diagnosed, this is the front door.
- What the research says — the reference layer: sourced entries with a confidence label on each one.
- My experience — my own lupus writing, kept clearly separate from the reference pages.
- Keli’s Kakes — the cakes, event by event.
- Home — back to the beginning.