stay tuned for my friend Lucy

I had a terrific lunch with a new friend of mine, Lucy B. yesterday. She is one of millions of Americans that has vitiligo. Lucy is an amazing jazz singer and I asked her to share her experience on this blog. So we will look forward to it soon.We had lunch to discuss her being my first official guest on my tv show being taped on June 19th, 2008. Although, Lucy's vitiligo is advanced, we share so many things incommon living with vitiligo.

When we walked into the cafe on Wilshire, she asked me if I wanted to sit in the sun and my eyebrow raised; I thought "how could she want to sit in the sun and expose the less pigmented skin to the dangers of the sun rays?"So, I asked her and go figure, like the rest of the planet, she said "girl I love the sun, I could sit in the sun all the time". However, we agreed that if we don't add sunscreen every two hours, we can blister and that is so NOT cute or healthy!Great thing to find out is that life doesn't stop for people with vitiligo.

We are human and function like everyone else except that we can easily distract people with the blotchiness of white spots, particularly if the skin is brown to very dark.Lucy told me she has a supportive boyfriend. For women who have to live with Vitiligo, there are times that we might wonder if a man could genuinely be attracted to us physically and handle the affects of the pigment change. Some will and some won't, we just have to discern the truth from their behavior. Isn't that what's generally done anyway with or without vitiligo?Well, I just wanted to share a little about Lucy B. and will read from her soon.