Coiling for Lyme

healing process

  • What if? (Bart remix)

    I haven’t taken a biology course since high school.  I’ve read a lot and watched a pathophysiology course on video at one point (skipping the section on cancer for some reason). So I know a few things, I understand a… Continue reading

  • Surviving Vagus

    I’ve been to Vegas twice. Las Vegas is unionized hotel workers, dancing on the street in front of the fountain at the Bellagio, breakfast at a diner at 10pm, recycled air in hotels, too much audio and visual stimulation in… Continue reading

  • Sweating it out

    Ah the joys of summer. Warm nights. Humidity. Swimming laps in an olympic pool during my dreams. My body often feels better in the summer. So far, it’s been hit and miss, but we’ve only had a few days of… Continue reading

  • Jaunty

    Summer is my best season. My body works best in warm weather. As long as I can breathe, which I can when the humidity isn’t excessive, I’m happy in the heat. It got pretty warm today, I think 86 deg.… Continue reading

  • Eating without Inflammation

    As I consider all I’ve been learning about Bartonella (and its digestive tract symptoms), I’m thinking about what I do and don’t eat to keep my body working and my infections at bay. When I first got sick, I had… Continue reading

  • Bartonella and IBS

    Continuing my recent posts about Bartonella, I have another idea. One of the diagnoses that a gastroenterologist came up with for me back in 2007 was Irritable Bowel Syndrome. She first wanted to rule out an acute infection. I had… Continue reading

  • Musings on Bartonella

    With Bartonella, there’s what I know as as Lyme patient and what I read on the internet. Tonight I read a little bit about Bartonella. It turns out that in other settings besides the ones where people with tick-borne illnesses… Continue reading

  • Smoking out Babesia

    When I was doing research for Babesia Basics, I read a bunch of articles and websites, not all of which I cited. A piece of information from one article stuck with me, and I saw it repeated though I can… Continue reading

  • Unforgettable

    I overdid it today. But it was totally worth it. I got to be around a group of people I love (one of whom I mentioned yesterday is visiting for the weekend). I got to be relaxed and connected. I… Continue reading

  • Keeping it together

    There’s a fine line between pretense and keeping it together for a short, defined period of time. Right now, I’m walking it. I have a friend in town this weekend and too many activities planned. This includes some driving on… Continue reading