#world sjogren's day

[mysandwichgiver]

Hey y'all, today is World Sjogren's Day.

We are many, and we are lobbying for awareness, better treatments, and more research!

[drugcarts]

World Sjogrens Day - 23rd July

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[whatthefibromyalgia]

Dear Followers

I have been thinking about starting a side blog to do most of my actual journaling on. Today I decided I would rather keep it all here. Why start a side blog or keep it all split? It is all part of me and who I am. As an OG tumblr users I want to stay the way I have always been. Transparent and open here. I am not just a kink blogger or adult blogger. I am a human with very real thoughts and feelings outside of the kink catagory. Why not just be me here and now and in the moment?

I have currently been struggling mentally and emotionally with my health and all that comes with it. It still angers me to feel like a year and half ago I really felt like I had found that place in life where everything is calm and you just sit back and marvel at how far you have come and then suddenly without warning you walk out your front door and your entire would changes. Yes, angry is a familiar feeling as of late.

June 30th 2022 I had emergency surgery to have my cervical spine fused and bone grafts placed. This is due to me having a very narrow spinal canal and my spinal fluid and blood flow to my brain was cut off. At this time I also learned that I have Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis along with Degenerative disc disease, SLE Lupus, Sjogrens Syndrom. there are a list of other things that go along with all this but I will spare you the long version. I went from being the rock of the family who never stops to being told not to even lift things. All of this will progress and blah blah...Because of it all I am feeling alone and lonely. There are days I feel like I am watching everyone I love live life and I am counting down the days or wondering how many decent days I will have left in me. I no longer know where I fit in the kink world. I still feel submissive but also most days I am so angry I don't feel like I belong anywhere anymore.. Nothing at all seems fair.. Eccentric Submissive

[gsuniversityofficial]

On World Sjogren's Day, we stand in solidarity with those affected by this autoimmune disorder.

The team of GS Hospital understands the importance of early detection and awareness which can reduce the harshness of the disease and hence we are dedicated in raising awareness and supporting those affected by Sjogren's Syndrome.

For more information contact

Mob: +91-7055514537

Book your appointment today - https://gshospitals.in/appointment.php

Address: - NH-9, Near Railway Station Pilkhuwa, Hapur (U.P.)

[bharathidasanprabhu]

🌍 WORLD SJOGREN’S DAY - 23 JULY 2024 - உலக ஸ்ஜோக்ரன்ஸ் தினம் - 23 ஜூலை 2024.

[bestmessage]

World Sjogren’s Day Messages and Quotes

World Sjogren’s Day Messages, Wishes and Status to your family and friends on whatsapp, facebook. Most Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Sjogren’s.

[vegi1]

Professional athletes that are vegan

The vegetarian and vegan diet is attracting the attention of more people around the world day by day and the number of its fans is increasing rapidly.

Interestingly, despite the common misconception about this diet, which is said to lack enough nutrients and protein, especially for athletes, many athletes and bodybuilders around the world have turned to vegetarianism.

1. Venus Williams – tennis player

Venus Williams is a famous American vegan sportswoman and tennis player who was born in California in 1980. This athlete has repeatedly won the title of champion in various tournaments, including Wimbledon, American and Australian Open tennis, and has 4 Olympic gold medals in his brilliant sports record.

She is the second greatest female tennis player of all time after her sister Serena Williams.

The cause of vegetarianism and the diet of Venus Williams

Williams switched to a raw vegan diet in 2011 after being diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome and on the advice of doctors to reduce some symptoms of severe fatigue and joint pain.

According to him, although he switched to this diet to treat his illness, he fell in love with veganism from the very beginning and considers it one of the best diets for providing energy and health.

Although Williams doesn't like breakfast, he starts his day with fruit or fruit and vegetable juice, and his drinks include vegetable juice, protein smoothie, pineapple, orange, and strawberry juice.

Almond milk with granola, lentils, quinoa, strawberry milkshake with protein powder, sweet potatoes, green beans, cabbage, noodles and brown rice are some of the foods he consumes in his meals and usually vegetable juice. He uses cabbage chips, cashews, dates and mangoes for snacks.

Lunch is his biggest meal and his dinner is usually salad with fresh ginger, garlic, pepper, orange juice and lemon.

A large and complete breakfast before the competition and the consumption of rice, tofu, sweet potato and drinking water with electrolyte powder are the foods that he uses to increase his energy after the competition.

2. Lewis Hamilton – Formula 1 driver

Lewis Hamilton, the English Formula 1 driver, was born in 1985 in Hertfordshire, England. So far, he has won the Formula 1 world championship five times and is a record holder in many cases.

Lewis Hamilton's net worth is $285 million.

The cause of vegetarianism and Lewis Hamilton's diet

2017 and more Hamilton has joined the big wagon family for environmental reasons.

He says: "Man has brought pollution to the world and the amount of pollution caused by raising cows is even more than the pollution caused by vehicles. This is really crazy and cruel and I don't see the need to support it. I will."

Hamilton loves breakfast but avoids sweets made with dairy butter and often uses beans with toast. He has always loved avocado and vegan pancakes are one of his favorite sweets.

Hong Kong special vegan burger, falafel, quinoa powder, fried garlic tofu with vegetables, brown rice, whole wheat pasta, tempeh and baked sweet potato are among the foods consumed by this athlete in different meals and drinking fresh coffee Or green tea with 85% dark chocolate.

3. Jermain Defoe – footballer

Jermain Defoe is a famous English footballer and scorer who was born in 1982 in Becton, England.

Defoe has played in more than 57 international games and currently plays for Bournemouth and the England national team.

Jermain Defoe's cause of vegetarianism and diet

Defoe switched to a vegan diet in 2017 and said about not consuming meat, eggs and dairy products that not only was it not difficult for him, but following a vegan diet increased his performance and success in the field of sports and gave him a better understanding of his body. has earned

His meal the night before the competition is usually whole wheat pasta with vegetable pesto sauce or brown rice and steamed vegetables such as spinach and broccoli, and on the morning of the competition he eats porridge with almond milk, berries and a little honey.

Baked beans, rice pudding with almond milk, cinnamon and strawberry jam, vegetarian pizza and vegan cheese are among the other foods consumed by this footballer.

4. David Haye – Boxer

British heavyweight boxer David Haye was born in London in 1980. He is the owner of various world championship titles in two weight categories and in 2008 he won three of the four main boxing titles in the world.

The cause of vegetarianism and David Hay's diet

After a severe shoulder injury that led to surgery and a break in his sports activities, David Hay researched the benefits of a plant-based diet on speeding up wound healing and reducing recovery time, and joined the vegan family in 2014.

He says about this: "Monkeys are twenty times stronger than humans, even though they never eat meat. It is a false myth that you have to eat meat to increase your physical strength. "I have a full-time cook and a good nutritionist to make sure I get all the minerals and nutrients I need."

David Hay provides most of the protein he needs by consuming a lot of beans and lentils. Other foods he consumes include cod liver oil, quinoa, brown rice, puree with bananas, kale, celery juice, a mixture of beans and drumsticks, and He mentioned sweet potatoes as well as lots of vegetables and salads along with protein shakes and coconut milk, prunes and dates as snacks.

[meredithwbahuriak]

Today is World Sjogren’s Day. Please spread awareness by sharing, liking, commenting, & reposting. Thank you for your support 💜

[stormy333]

Reality Check

Hey Loves, today I'm going to do something a tiny bit out of the ordinary for me and my writing. What could that be you may possibly be wandering well I'll tell you. You may have guessed by the post starter that we're going to talk about something I don't typically talk about. It's something I don't know this is really gonna get kinda mucky if I try to hard to put into words why I don't talk about it. So kinda bare with me while I try to put into words something that's sorta been on my mind a while.

To start with I have mentioned it a few times and I do talk about it ocaisionally but typically I um for lack of a better word I despise this topic and struggle a lot with it, so I guess it's the elephant in the room all the time for me. I know I keep saying "it" well I suppose it's time to give the "it" it's well technically their names. Yes names plural.

1.               Dysautonomia Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (there's many forms of dysautonomia)

2.               Sjogren's Syndrome

3.               Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (Hypermobility type)

4.               Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

Big names right? They changed my whole world. I have always had issues, allergies, fatigue, GI problems. Then when I turned 12 I was extremely sick all the time, thinking maybe my gallbladder was the problem they took it out; it did help a little for about a year and a half until a little while after I turned 13. Um the nausea came back with friends after an extreme allergic reaction to an antibiotic not only had I taken a lot through my life but I had just finished a week of it before the reaction, technically we don't know which antibiotic I had the reaction to because I was on a combination but we ended up marking them both. Anyways back to nausea and it's friends; dizziness, chronic fatigue (never actually diagnosed though), high blood pressure, swelling and that doesn't even scratch the surface of all of it. Um I was thirteen and had my whole life planned out and had this idea in my mind of who I was supposed to be and who I was going to be and it it crashed and burned very easily.

Above in the list I wrote them in the order they were diagnosed and see I was one of the blessed ones to be diagnosed pretty quickly. I've always had the mindset of it's not that big of a deal there's people in the world who have it a lot worse than me. Like in a way it's sometimes unhealthy because I tend to box everything of my life, emotional, physical, pretty much any feeling I box it up and pretend it doesn't exist. I don't like talking about my health, I don't like talking about things I've been through and I struggle with acknowledging the feelings I harbor towards God, it's difficult.

I guess I should probably start with the feelings harbored toward God part considering it kinda looks bad. For starters I don't claim to be perfect or a role model in fact I am probably the worst role model ever in my opinion. Secondly these illnesses all of them we can only manage symptoms there is no cure and it's not like it has a schedule of when it's worse, I never know if it's going to be a good day or a bad day. I feel wronged, my whole teenage existence is has been doctors, sleep, meds, fighting about decisions with my parents, isolating myself and trying to learn to live with these illnesses. I mean how do you NOT feel wronged when you miss out on a whole year of your life because you slept it AWAY!?! How do you not feel wronged when you were an A+ student then all of a sudden not? You think like why? Like what did I do? Then to top it off it's russian roulette with doctors on if you get a good one or not. You get told it's in your head or it's your weight or something else and hey guys I'm already on the edge here ready to jump. All I really wanted to know was why?

Of course there the other ways it affected me too. I have always been a very neat and clean person, I mean this both personal hygiene wise and my personal space like my room. See this is the part that's really difficult for me especially to talk about. I am not a vain person, I don't think that highly of myself but at the same time I've always had extreme self care standards, shower daily, shave my legs weekly, wash my face at least twice a week, paint my nails at least once a month, go on walks daily, things like that. Uh when the symptoms got worse these things became more draining and harder to do. When you are chronically ill everything takes more energy than it would for a healthy person which is where this thing called the "Spoon Theory" came from. A great example would be brushing your hair right? If you're sleeping days in a row your hair gets tangled and um at first I wanted desperately to keep something that made me feel like my old self my healthy self. I was clinging to life so to speak. So I tormented myself and my old roommate and my mom with horribly tangled hair for months until I think the first time I wanted a change. Though I have talked a little about my illnesses with people honestly I don't think I have ever had an in-depth conversation about the full effects they've had on my body and mind as well as my soul. The full effects.

The reality of my life is 8-10 pills a night, sometimes I can't shower, sometimes I can't clean my room which is heck on my mental because when I got worse my  need for cleanliness got a million times worse than it originally was, a four times a day medication that I struggle to remember, bloodwork often, brain fog always, no more walks everyday because I have to choose. Ultimately I quit school because it was a toss up on which was more important, my school or my physical therapy. Physical therapy is, feels hopeless because the more you do it helps but in the process it hurts and it sucks, your symptoms get worse and you have to find the delicate balance of if you are feeling growing pains so to speak or if you pushed to far. When you're sleeping for days on end you don't really care what you look like, what you smell like or what anyone thinks you're likely going back to bed after you go to the bathroom. Except you do care because in the back of your mind you see the legs you haven't shaved in over a month, you see the hair so tangled that it is standing up on your head, you see the nail polish all messed up, you see the "disaster" in the mirror. It's sitting in the back of my mind constantly how gross I am during these times. But I see someone else going through it and feeling that way about themselves and I can't stand for them to feel that way, it hurts me that their hurting like that. Finding the balance is so unbelievably hard because it can shift at even the slightest change. You lose who you were and the sooner you accept that the better. I am not saying this an easy thing to do, but once you get that it's a process specifically a grieving process then you can begin to heal and find your new self.

Honestly I think that covers it currently and this will likely be a continued conversation because this definitely a topic that I feel should be more present in my life and my blogs.

Learn more  about the Spoon Theroy here >https://www.healthline.com/health/spoon-theory-chronic-illness-explained-like-never-before#1

I hope you all have a lovely day/night whenever you are reading this💙

[echonvoid]

Here’s some Splints doodles. I wish theyd go into the trauma he experienced with being at the battle nexus and shit; and that they’d stop giving characters unearned redemption arcs. Or show that it’s Splinter having an incredibly unhealthy relationship with his past abuser(s). Like Draxum needs to actually feel remorse for the fact that he was planning to commit mass genocide; his relationship with Lou Jitsu is interesting cuz, most headcanon them as having known each other or being exes. But like, in canon, Huggin and Munnin rescue him from enslavement and imprisonment. They have like a conversation, Lou consents to the experimentation until he realizes that the other subjects are the turtles. So like, it’s not a healthy one, but at least I understand that he was at least in a healthier space when he thanked baron for his kids. Big Mama straight up kidnapped him and forced him to fight for his life in a blood sport for probably at least several years, if not a decade. And then imprisoned him in an empty cell like garbage when he began refusing to fight. And then he acts like they were just exes who had a nasty breakup. Mans needs some real therapy. And big mama should NEVER be given a redemption arc. Because that’s just encouraging people to forgive their abusers and that’s like, a fucking huge no no

EDIT: also, I don’t think Splinter was ever neglectful or anything. Not saying he was perfect and he’s also certainly understood that and has grown for it. My big thing is, is I grew up with a mom with Sjogren’s, and autoimmune disease that attacks all her saliva, tear, and sweat glands. Anyway, for a long time, it’d hit noon and my mom would be out for the count the rest of the day. We were homeschooled so we just usually watched Netflix the rest of the day. But I never felt neglected. My moms disabled and she does the best she can (although now she’s in her 40s and feeling better than she ever has in her life, since the age of 12) I feel like this was the kind of situation splinter and the boys found themselves in more often than not; especially with all the trauma and shit, plus I’m sure mutating wasn’t very pleasant on the old bones. Anyway, like, splinter was, essentially, a disabled, ptsd crippled, single father with literally no support system and no ability to get help from the outside world. I think his wealth from his past life (if he could get access to it) was the only thing he could support them with.

Anyway, here’s my art; the second one takes place when Leo makes a deal with big mama to fight in the show.

[spooniestrong]

In recognition of World AUTOimmune & AUTOinflammatory Day today, know that AiArthritis diseases are full-body diseases triggered by the immune system - conditions like #RA #PsA #Lupus #SpA #spondy #spondyloarthritis #Stills #Sjogrens #JIA #JRA #AOSD #sJIA #SLE #rheum

[odinsravendutchess]

I’m disabled. I have ADHD, suspected Autism, multiple autoimmune issues (type 1 diabetes, Sjogrens, Eustachian tube defect, etc) to the point I am in organ failure waiting to be put on the transplant list at Mayo but I have to have a surgery before hand since my immune system wants to attack my whole body.

I was born with an exceptionally rare birth defect called infantile nystagmus.

I have been sick since age 2. I spent my 2nd year of life in a children’s cancer ward because I had a rare bleeding disorder called ITP and back in the 80’s they thought it automatically lead to me getting leukemia. I got to go home on my 3rd birthday.

I legit don’t know a life of not being sick/disabled.

I am a mom of neuro-divergent kiddos, a wife and a health care professional specialized in high risk pediatrics.

I don’t waste my time explaining things to neurotypical people because it’s none of their business and my energy is precious so why waste it?

I am extremely literal to the point my husband struggles with communicating with me because I mean what I say and say what I mean. He makes assumptions, like I have emotional meaning to what I say when I don’t. I tell him he has epic vagina moments because I am not touchy feely emotional like the other women he knows. He also wants to give a speech and I want him to get to the point. I don’t need a 47 page paper with the most important part only being in the conclusion.

I was born into a world not made for me.

I’m living my life to the best of my abilities.

However I have thought about getting an air horn for when people try to be confrontational about things.

No response is a response, but so is the sound an air horn makes. Whatever response I give won’t make them understand because they will never be in my body.

I am mean. I will not apologize for how I am. I will not accept someone giving me a hard time over it either.

Big ableism experiences I have had when my body was more functional than it is now;

I have PCOS. After I was diagnosed at age 15 I got sick almost on a daily basis due to my abdomen hurting badly. So I went to the school nurses office to lay down until my mom or a family friend could come take me home because my doctor told me, when I was diagnosed with PCOS, I don’t need to be in school with the level of pain I was having since there was no reasonable way I was going to learn anything. The school nurse gave me a hard time and told me to my face that if I was her child she wouldn’t come get me from school. It felt like someone was stabbing my abdomen because I had PCOS aka my ovaries were double clustered in cysts and I had undiagnosed endometriosis. I told my primary care doctor what the nurse said to me so my doctor called the school nurse and told her off. The next time I had severe abdominal pain, the nurse apologized to me for what she had previously said.

That same year, I had to go see a doctor 2 hours away to get on a PCOS treatment that worked for me. It was a special shot and it required special education that only a specialist could get or something. I had to take a day off from school once a month so I could get the shot that made it so I could not be in pain and so my hormones did their job. A teacher gave me a hard time over it because he thought that was ridiculous. So I told my primary care doctor, the doctor that diagnosed me with PCOS. She called the school and told off the principal over it. The principal told off the teacher giving me a hard time. The teacher apologized to me.

The school nurse and the teacher assumed I was faking being in pain and having health issues. It comes down to them trying to get me to go against doctors orders which would be them practicing medicine without a license. My doctor was none having any of that.

[whattolearntoday]

July 23rd is...

Gorgeous Grandma Day -  Not all women become grandmothers. Those who do, don’t necessarily fit the traditional mold any longer. Others still reach a point where many assume grandmother status, even though no grandchildren are about. Gorgeous Grandma Day embraces the age of the nana and encourages all women to flaunt their granny attitudes with purpose and style.

Peanut Butter And Chocolate Day - This day celebrates the coming together of a humble legume ground into a creamy delicious paste and a tree nut with delusions of grandeur. Ok, so maybe chocolate isn’t actually experiencing delusions, it is in fact pretty amazing. Peanut Butter has been with us since the time of the Aztecs, where it was unexpectedly used as a sort of toothache remedy, while chocolate was used as an offering to the gods and a drink of royalty. While we can’t speculate about when these two substances first came together, we know that it was a fortuitous day for sweet lovers everywhere.

Sprinkles Day - They were originally referred to as Nonpareils and can be found as early as the 18th Century, though there is evidence to suggest that they were in use even earlier than that. Since then they have grown ever more popular and began being found in countries all over the world in an ever-growing combination of flavors. As is clear from their original name that no one uses, Nonpareils, these tasty decorations are known by different names all over the world. In Holland they’re known as hagelslag, in Philadelphia and Boston they’re known as Jimmies, in Indonesia they’re known as meses, and in Belgium, they’re known by the somewhat whimsical muizenstrontjes or mouse droppings.

Vanilla Ice Cream Day - Since Americans love vanilla ice cream so much, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that vanilla is the most common flavoring in North America for ice cream. In fact, many people consider vanilla ice cream to be the default flavor. Many may be familiar with Thomas Jefferson’s vanilla ice cream recipe. The third president of the United States may have discovered vanilla flavor while visiting France. While he wouldn’t have been the first to savor the delicious taste of vanilla ice cream, Jefferson enjoyed jotting down recipes. The same applied to ice cream. He also produced a handwritten copy of a vanilla ice cream recipe in the 1780s.

World Sjogren’s Day - Spread awareness for this immune system disorder. It’s also a day to better understand the symptoms so that Sjogren’s (SHOW-grins) Syndrome is properly diagnosed. Millions of people throughout the world live with Sjogren’s Syndrome. Dry eyes and dry mouth are the two primary symptoms of this immune system disorder. With Sjogren’s, the immune system attacks the cells that produce saliva and tears. Besides affecting the mouth and eyes, Sjogren’s can also cause issues in other parts of the body. This includes the thyroid, kidneys, liver, lungs, and nerves. The chronic illness is often accompanied by other immune disorders, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

[compo67]

How have you been?

Oof. Big oof. 

That’s a damn good question, anon. CN: housing, trauma, depression, safety

I have been... not the greatest. I can relate to a lot of memes right now. There are so many, I can’t pick just one. I save a lot of them to my phone. 

I have been displaced from my home and living with my mom/extended family for about a month now. At first, I thought it would be like any other time I’ve been housing insecure and displaced. I’ve experienced homelessness as a result of traumatic situations many times in my teens and twenties. I was like. Pft. I got this.

Narrator voice: Cal did not got this. 

But you know, in all the years I’ve been in therapy, working on shit, not a single therapist warned me that this shit would only hit you harder as you age. 

Kinda would have been nice to have that warning. Anyway. It’s had a serious impact on my mental, physical, and emotional health. Combine that with the shared trauma of /gestures to everything in the world right now/ and chronic health issues, May has been an incredibly difficult month. I don’t really want to share many specifics, but it has been tough keeping myself safe at some points.

Rest assured though, I am currently safe. And doing better than yesterday and yesterday was better than the day before. 

I haven’t uploaded anything to Patreon, AO3, or Tumblr in a while. I feel so depressed about that, but when I try to write, nothing happens. I’m also not taking my Vyvanse because it amplifies my anxiety, so focusing is an issue. And just. My brain. Is. Tired. All it wants to do is consume media, not produce it. 

I’m trying to remind myself that the shit in my head lies. Y’all don’t hate me because I’m not writing my heart out and posting every single day during a global pandemic. Y’all don’t hate me because I’m not writing while I’m crashing at my mom’s. It’s pressure only I put on myself. But anxiety is so LOUD. 

There is good news though. I managed to survive the layoffs and furloughs at my job, thank goodness. I depend on my job for my insurance, which includes and covers transplant with my chosen hospital. I’m actually working more these days. 

I’m happy to be with my sister and my extended family. They bring me a lot of joy. I missed them fiercely when shelter in place started. I was so lonely at my dad’s, where it’s just me and him, I didn’t realize how lonely until I came here. I’m eternally grateful that my sister and I set up a plan ahead of time for something like this. 

I’ve kept a lot of my doctor appointments thanks to telehealth. My MRI has been pushed back, but that’s okay. I’m starting Humira again tomorrow to shake off this Sjogren’s flare. I am better at managing POTS and my resting heart rate isn’t consistently 130 bpm anymore. The subluxations in my knees and hips (damn femur bones) aren’t as frequent. 

I need to buy a home. It’s just clear to me that this is the next step in my life, like it or not. I’ve shied away from even thinking about buying a home because you know, that millennial life. For the entirety of my adult life, even if I worked two jobs, I was never able to even rent anything on my own. I’ve never ever permanently lived somewhere that I felt 100% safe in. 

So, I’ve been researching ridiculous amounts. Calling agencies and nonprofits trying to figure out how someone who is disabled and can only work part time could possibly ever hope to own a home. I have a spreadsheet titled, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m doing it anyway.” 

If you have tips on buying a home--especially if you’re disabled--please share.

I have the world’s tiniest down payment, but I have other things in my favor. If anyone can research something to death, it’s me.

What a strange time to be alive, right? 

I’m super anxious about Illinois reopening prematurely, being an immunocompromised person. I’m still grieving about this whole liver transplant within the next 10 years thing. That stuff makes it really hard to be hopeful or to plan anything long-term. But I’ve been talking about this more. I don’t live in my head 100% anymore. Maybe like 90% but that 10% really helps. 

I just hope folks continue to be patient with me in all aspects of life. Writing wise. Friendship wise. Family wise. Job wise. Me wise. 

I hope y’all are okay. I hope y’all are surviving /and/ thriving. I hope you have lots of moments of joy throughout your day. I hope there are times when you feel happiness. 

I reread Post Hole Diggers today and wow. I’m still so proud of that fic. 

Now I just have to make my way back there. And get a bunch of other things sorted out at the same time. Fingers crossed. 

-Cal

[lisaehrman]

July 23 is World Sjogren's Day. We celebrate the birthday of Dr Henrik Sjogren, who discovered the autoimmune disease in 1933.

[bharathidasanprabhu]

🌍 WORLD SJOGREN’S DAY - 23 JULY 2023 - உலக ஸ்ஜோக்ரன்ஸ் தினம் - 23 ஜூலை 2023.