Coiling for Lyme

healing process

  • How to be

    When I first became disabled by Lyme Disease in 2007, I didn’t know how to be sick. Believe it or not, being sick and disabled requires a different skill set than being well and having a full-time job. The first… Continue reading

  • Shaky

    In the days following the egg experiment, I’ve been feeling a little funny. It was obvious that eating a food with egg ingredients triggered my Lyme infection to become more active. I expected that. But then something else happened. New… Continue reading

  • Egg Experiment

    Eggs have been a scary food for me since I got sick. I have an ugly history with them. And, yet, as I attempt to reclaim every bit of my life that Lyme and the other chronic tick-borne illnesses have… Continue reading

  • Looking Forward and Backward

    Last year was a huge year for me. It was my third year of coiling and I made so much progress. There is much to review and learn from. The biggest thing that happened was that I got bolder and… Continue reading

  • Frustration

    As the holidays approach, I have the cultural angst that many Americans do, with the mixed memories of previous Christmases, both extremely joyful and extremely difficult. So I’m trying to excuse myself for the way all my feelings are being… Continue reading

  • (Un)Happy Hormones

    Gaining Weight I went for a run and walk last Sunday (12/1). I had a much harder time than I’d been having on previous runs. Usually, the thing that limits how far I run before I slow to a walk… Continue reading

  • Talking Turkey

    This past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to go from where I am, which is better than I’ve been since I got sick, to healthy and capable of daily activity. In a lot of ways, I think… Continue reading

  • How do you know?

    A while back, maybe over the summer, I read an article in the New Yorker about Lyme Disease. In it, one of the patients who got interviewed said that she couldn’t be sure that the reason she was feeling better… Continue reading

  • Zion and Bryce Canyon

    Tuesday, October 29, 2013 (Hand-written in a motel outside Bryce Canyon.) I guess I’ve been here before. My parents have the photos to prove it. In the summer of 1988, my parents drove my sister and me across the United… Continue reading

  • Valley of Fire

    Wow. It’s a month since I posted to this blog. I went on vacation on October 25 and thought I would have time to post before I left or at least at some point during the trip. But life doesn’t… Continue reading