Y'know how Jo Beth had gotten all inflamed around her mouth
and chin from makeout sessions in college?  Well, thank
goodness, THAT hasn't happened since.

Today, she doesn't even need a makeout session. On one
cheek, and on her lip and one side of her chin, Jo Beth's skin
has decided to be red whenever it feels like it.  Who knows
why?  (Just another autocidal mystery...)

The cheek she can live with, but Jo Beth is really embarrassed
by the chin.  Some days, it looks EXACTLY like she's been
eating a cherry popsicle and dribbling it down her chin.   
Occasionally, strangers quietly approach her trying to be
helpful:  "You've got something on your chin."  
THAT is embarrassing.

What did the doctor have to say?  "You'll have to live with it."
No referral to a special makeup source, no sympathy.  Just
the usual attitude:  "Not life threatening, so who cares?"
Fred or, for Today's Audience, Homer

Where Jo Beth begins the transformation to a caveman.
Study Questions:
Would you kiss this woman?
Are you kidding?  
Jo Beth has "lupus light".   
Less-light-lupus folk can have a huge
red patch across their entire face.   

They think Jo Beth is a little whiner.
What the lupus "butterfly rash" can look like.
(Click on the picture on this site.)