Hello, my name is Ana Lucía. I am twenty years old and I was diagnosed with diffuse systemic scleroderma a year and a half ago. I have been on a treatment with corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide for roughly the same amount of time.

I have to go to the hospital every month for an IV treatment. Thank God everything is better now, it is under control. Perhaps, if it is God's wish, by the end of the year I won't have to do the IV treatment anymore, but I will have to keep on taking pills. But I want to tell everyone who has something similar that you shouldn't give up, you should go ahead, life is beautiful.

Thanks for listening.

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