Autoimmune Disease & Her Diamonds
Alternative rock musician Rob Thomas is both the lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty and a solo recording artist. His most recent album – Cradlesong – was released just last month.
Rob Thomas has been married to Puerto Rican American model Marisol Maldonado for almost ten years. Marisol lives with a rare autoimmunity disorder that is similar to Lupus. “Her Diamonds”, the lead single on this latest album, shares the story of the couple’s battle against this autoimmune disease.
The album’s first single, the kaleidoscopic “Her Diamonds,” is the most personal song Thomas has yet committed to disc. Rob’s wife Marisol is courageously battling an autoimmune disease, and “Her Diamonds” was written “about a couple dealing with that on a day-to-day basis,” explains Thomas. “There’s an incredible amount of sadness that comes with something like that. There are moments where I think I flirted with a thinner personal line than I’ve ever done before, but, really, I’m writing a song about how people deal with hard times, and that hard time is universal, that hard time can be anything.” RobThomasMusic.com
Hat tip to Life in the Autoimmune Lane and Living It, Loving It for sharing this find.
Wow! I wasnt’ expecting this to bring tears.
Great post! Reminds us that it’s not just the little guy who is affected by this stuff.
Yeah, I shed some tears as well.
When I first heard this song, I cried. Rob Thomas was very important to me in my cancer journey his music really helped me, and once I heard this song I felt another bond with him. I don’t know him but he seems like a wonderful husband to care so much about his wife and to be able to express himself and his feelings like this.
Have you seen this video? It gave me chills, even more than the song itself did! It does a great job showing what it feels like sometimes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQviGR8zv14
I also have a rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis, I would like to know more about Rob Thomas’s wife’s autoimmune disease.
As much as I don’t wish this disease on anyone, we need someone in the spot light to be affected by it, so it can gain some attention and much needed funds for research. There are several forms of,
polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis and juvenille dermatomyositis. They are all incurable, some can be fatal but all are very rare, dermatomyositis afflicts 1 in every 50,000 people. If anyone can give me any information about her disease I would really appreciate it.
Thank you
Now let’s take a little break from feeling sorry for ourselves and those that have to put up with us and listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7tV4GCmWw
Amazing song… had heard it before but never truly “heard” the words and the association until today. I too have something similar to lupus but they haven’t nailed it down yet after 15 years. Kudos to you, Rob… for being such a caring hubby, and for letting the rest of us know we (and our significant others) are not alone.