Get Fit With @GENNYMACK I am Genail Porter (also known as Genail McKinley), a recent bride as of June 2019. Yaaassss! I am a Lupus Warrior, Corporate Queen, Group Fitness Instructor and Plant-Based, Whole-Foods Lover. I would like to share my story on how I discovered my disease and fight it every day by living an active, healthy lifestyle while juggling a corporate lifstyle and my fitness side-hustle. Here’s the synopsis. I was diagnosed with Lupus in October 2017. For those unfamiliar with this condition, it is an autoimmune disease that mistakenly attacks healthy tissues and organs, such as the skin, kidneys, brain and lungs, in my case. Upon my diagnosis, I had a huge “flare”, felt fatigued, extremely achy with swollen ankles and knees (the size of golf balls), and felt like I had pneumonia. This was tough news to digest as an avid workout junkie. It meant that I had to conform to the American medical lifestyle. I had to take prescription drugs to manage my disease. This included taking steroids (the infamous “prednisone”), which sometimes felt like more harm was done to 31
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