Coiling for Lyme

Rose

  • Surrounded by friends

    I’m starting my post late tonight. I’m pretty tired and my body is a wreck. But that isn’t what the day has been about. All day, I’ve been noticing how much people care about me. It started with a phone… Continue reading

  • The Post-Punky World

    My apartment seems so empty. I keep expecting to see one of my cats out of the corner of my eye. I miss Punky a lot, and it feels like I lost PJ all over again. My cats pulled my… Continue reading

  • Grief

    Punky died today. It’s been an emotional week, knowing that he was near his last bit of life. Today I held him while he died. It was rough. It might have been more efficient to have him put to sleep,… Continue reading

  • Double Herx

    The Lyme treatment yesterday has really knocked me out. Apparently I mis-timed it. I figured I had 2 or 3 days before I felt the effects, long enough to be through the Herx from increasing my coiling time on Bartonella.… Continue reading

  • Dreams and goals

    It’s been over 4 years since I had to stop working because of Lyme disease et alia. I spend a lot of time at home, a lot of time resting, a lot of time unable to do things I’d like… Continue reading

  • Rearranging my schedule

    As I increase the amount of time I coil, I need to do it in several sessions over the course of the day. This should be pretty simple, as I have a lot of unscheduled time. Of course the reason… Continue reading

  • Yoga for joint oxygenation

    It’s one of those rainy, chilly, damp spring days in New York City. It makes me wish I could move to southern Italy, back to where my grandparents were from, where it is sunny, the food is fresh, and it… Continue reading

  • What’s a coil machine?

    A few people have asked me what my coil machine is, what it looks like and how it works. The coil machine I have is known as a Doug Coil Machine named after the employer of the original designer. It… Continue reading

  • Different kinds of tired

    I spent another day in bed. I tried to get up for yoga. I even showered, but I was too tired and achy to walk there (nevermind the class itself). There is a special thing that happens to people with… Continue reading

  • The Long Run

    Lyme disease requires a tremendous amount of patience. When I first got sick, it was my crisis.  For a while, I was the recipient of a lot of attention. Then life happens to everyone else while I’m stuck on the… Continue reading