Coiling for Lyme

healing process

  • Take it lying down

    I crashed today. Fortunately, the only person I had planned on seeing caught a cold and cancelled. I spent the morning taking it slowly, coming up with things to do lying down (like coiling, reading). I got up for a… Continue reading

  • Friends are worth their weight in gold

    I got to hang out with two different friends today, one from high school and one from my earliest childhood. With the first one we took stock of how much our lives have progressed over the past year. For both… Continue reading

  • After Vacation Work Begins Again

    I had a fun conversation with a friend this evening about my trip to California. The trip overlapped perfectly with the hiatus in Lyme symptoms. So now that I’m back…I feel like crap. In some ways, it’s even worse because… Continue reading

  • The Pendulum Swings Back

    Now that I’m back in NYC from my lovely vacation to SF and Watsonville, I have the usual problems that crop up when I’m coiling. Yup, back in NY with the symptoms I wish I could leave behind. Since I… Continue reading

  • Coiling Break

    As I mentioned in my last post, I had a two week planned break from coiling (Jan 13-25). I did my best guess of when to take a break based on a few factors: I was expecting to be done… Continue reading

  • Thirty-seven

    I just got back from a trip to California. It was quite an experience. About 5 years ago, I was in San Francisco in late January when my first signs of debilitation were starting to show. Back then, I was… Continue reading

  • Bone Density Rx

    I went to see a rheumatologist this afternoon about my recent diagnosis of osteoporosis. I was pretty nervous, ready to do battle about whether I have Lyme Disease, given my previous experiences with rheumatologists. I looked up lots of information… Continue reading

  • Subways

    Now that I’m more mobile, as in I can walk a reasonable distance and still participate in the activity at the other end, I’m thinking about public transportation. Mostly, if I couldn’t walk somewhere during the past almost 5 years,… Continue reading

  • The Symptoms Return in Reverse

    The first time I saw a naturopath, he told me that when recovering from a chronic illness, as the body heals, one re-experiences all the symptoms in the reverse order of how they appeared when the chronic illness first set… Continue reading

  • Baby got back

    Muscle atrophy is one of the long-term side effects of being partially immobilized for several years. Now that I’m starting to really walk again, and put effort into rebuilding my bones, the muscle tone is returning. Just before I got… Continue reading