Coiling for Lyme

Rose

  • Chest pains

    Not a heart attack. There is a very specific kind of pain that I’ve had since just after the time when I’m sure I was bitten by a tick in 2001. It starts out as a sharp pain, like the… Continue reading

  • Stones and bumps

    That title could easily be referring to the conditions of the roads in New York as the snow has melted and left behind a mess for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. Alas, it is not. Kidney Stone follow-up I went to… Continue reading

  • Ailments of the heart

    I went to a workshop on addictions today. I’m not currently addicted to anything (that I know of…maybe blogging?), but I had to give up a bunch of things cold-turkey when I suddenly became debilitatingly ill. These included chocolate, cookies,… Continue reading

  • Bright lights, big screen

    I was checking out my friend Craig’s blog today and found a post about f.lux. It is a program that changes the color temperature of a computer screen depending on the time of day. Craig and f.lux explain all the… Continue reading

  • Restless and Lethargic

    I’m still sitting out the Herx. All day I’ve been feeling like I can’t move, can’t get up, can’t get started. At the same time, I’m bored and can’t settle down. I’m not really sure where all the hours went.… Continue reading

  • Rethinking and revising

    When doing science at the most basic level, the idea is to make observations. Try different conditions one at a time, make more observations, then form a hypothesis. Once the hypothesis is made, generate a series of tests (an experiment)… Continue reading

  • Not a (well) controlled experiment

    I’ll start with two things I mentioned in passing yesterday: my diet and my juicing recipe. Juicing Recipe The juicing recipe is easy. At present, my mother puts the following in the juicer and I drink it. 1/2 a cucumber… Continue reading

  • Taking the plunge…again

    Or rather, taking a hot bath two days in a row. As I mentioned yesterday, yoga kicked me really hard. (More on that in the body section.) I knew I needed to take another bath today. I hemmed and hawed… Continue reading

  • Henry’s Adventure

    Henry was the skinny, pale orange, 6 month old kitten I found last night crying pathetically in the hallway outside my door. After we walked around the hallway together for 10 minutes and I determined (by ringing doorbells) that he… Continue reading

  • More on Lyme Detoxing

    I spent much of today considering the topic I wrote about yesterday: Lyme is a disease of toxicity. I know things now about how to combat Lyme while reducing the suffering of its host. Still, I’m not sure how it… Continue reading