From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Titanoboa, /tiËtÉËnÉµËbÉµ.É/ ; meaning  titanic boa , is an extinct genus of snake that lived approximately 60â58 million years ago, during the Paleocene epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the dinosaur extinction event.
When writer Flannery O'Connor was diagnosed with lupus in 1950 at age 25, the autoimmune disease was poorly understood, often confused with arthritis. O'Connor braved debilitating pain, immobility, and fatigue with her characteristic humor at times, calling her crutches flying buttresses.
The disease in some ways resembles the responses seen in lupus erythematosus such as mild cerebritis with lymphocytes and plasma cells in the leptomeninges. Lymphoplasmacytic panniculitis of Lyme disease resembles lupus profundus, both in the infiltrate and the plasma cell-blood vessel relationship.ver the years, she has been misdiagnosed many times. Lyme disease mimics other illnesses. One doctor told her that she had lupus. Since Lyme disease was not as prevalent years ago and many doctors were unfamiliar with the illness, many sufferers did not get medical treatment in the crucial early stages of the sickness.