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  • The Missing Piece

    It’s been a few weeks since my last update, and I’ve been trying to concentrate enough to write for over 10 days. My herxes have changed a little because of how often I’m coiling and for which infections. I have… Continue reading

  • After a Quiet Month

    I’ve spent a lot of the past five weeks in bed or, more precisely, lying down in various places around the house. I was too sick with bronchitis to coil for the tick-borne infections, which meant I had a lot… Continue reading

    After a Quiet Month
  • Clarity

    It’s been a whole month since I’ve been at the computer and able to write. Sometimes I wonder how I blogged the first year that I was coiling. I was definitely as tired as I have been this month. I… Continue reading

  • Cycles and Progress

    I spent two weeks in Jackson Heights, NY, where I grew up and where I lived for the first five years after Lyme Disease caused me to become disabled. It was great to see my parents and friends. I only… Continue reading

  • A Month in my Head

    I’ve been talking to myself a lot the past month. It’s been a physically challenging, emotional roller coaster of a month. The vaccine I took at the end of March continued to wreak havoc on my immune system. The Lyme… Continue reading

  • Climbing out again

    Every now and then, I look at what I’m doing and I ask if I’m really getting better. This spring has been so hard that I often wonder if I’ve cursed myself by taking vaccines or even going at the… Continue reading

  • The Trouble with Triggers

    These past few weeks, I’ve been feeling worse. For a while, I was confused. I thought things were getting better. I tried to trigger the Lyme infection using a series of vaccinations. Nothing happened at first. So I assumed that… Continue reading

  • Indirect Connections

    For the past week, I’ve been having heart problems. Unfortunately, there is nothing to do for them. I think they are the same problems I’ve had in the past: tricuspid valve prolapse with some regurgitation. I recognize the sound when… Continue reading

  • Relentlessly Positive

    Out of curiosity, I decided to get another Lyme Western blot test. One of the things I learned was that when the Lyme infection dies down and has less of a hold on the immune system, a person is more… Continue reading

  • Lyme Indignities

    This is dedicated to all the folks out there with chronic Lyme Disease and all the other chronic illnesses that have a digestive tract component. Before you read on, however, be forewarned that the topic is hemorrhoids, so it might… Continue reading