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 infection got more active. The Babesia infection got more active. The Bartonella infection got more active. And the unidentified other infection I suspect I have also seemed more active. Even […]
The truth is that I’ve been feeling worse lately. It’s a hard truth. For most of the past 6 years, I’ve been getting better, in fits and starts. I haven’t regressed significantly at any point in time since I stopped antibiotics and started using the coil machine. So it shouldn’t surprise me that I’m having a hard time with the increase in symptoms and the reduction in my daily capacity. […]
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 taken away, I have decided I want eggs back in my life. There is more to it than just a desire to eat real chocolate chip cookies, pancakes, and frankly, […]
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 bolder in the way I coil and in reducing the other supplements and food restrictions, working my way towards the life of a healthy person, rather than a chronically ill […]
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 always work out as planned. My favorite aunt passed away while my husband and I were camping, so we took a detour, by plane, to NYC and went to the […]
Last night, the night that was to be my big hoorah before returning to my strict, safe, low-inflammatory diet. I wanted a veggie burger from a local place, one with guacamole and cheese. Then I wanted some ice cream for desert on the way home. Things didn’t quite work out as I had planned. I had a conversation with my waiter about egg allergies, and he checked to make sure […]
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been eating whatever I want, or rather, whatever I’ve wished I could eat for the past six years. It seems like a dream, and it seems like a nightmare. What I’ve learned so far is that eating many of the foods that I had “sensitivities” to triggers Lyme and Bartonella flares. I had clues that this was the case before I began this most […]
I intentionally overdid it over the weekend. I ate everything I wanted to, except for food containing eggs. I paid the price in suffering…but I woke the Lyme and made the Bartonella more active. So I consider it a triumph. Demanding Resources for Lyme I was in San Francisco for the weekend. I started out at the protest outside the IDSA. It was more of a rally and educational event […]
It’s been a crazy week since I last posted a blog. I’ve been trying all sorts of things, intentionally, to get the Lyme bacteria to come out of hiding. My efforts have definitely paid off. I’ve been feeling awful for all or part of most days. I guess that’s a good thing. I’m herxing when I coil for Lyme. Meanwhile, I’ve changed up my Bartonella routine (again) now that I’m […]
Sweet This weekend, before the Lyme symptoms crashed over me like a ten foot ocean wave, I did some baking. My friend, Shannon, came over and we tried out two recipes from the book, The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking, by Peter Reinhart and Denene Wallace. I’ve been on a severely restricted diet since 2008 and avoiding eggs since 2007. As one might imagine, the restrictions impaired my ability to […]
Coiling for Lyme 