Coiling for Lyme

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  • 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

  • Evolving Protocols

    Almost three years into coiling and almost 7 years into Lyme-caused disability, I am the master of slow and steady. I can do what I need to do without deadlines. I am willing to spend my energy on what will… Continue reading

  • Appetite Paradox

    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… Continue reading

  • Mono Lake

    Mono Lake is in California, on route I395, just outside the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. When my husband and I go camping in or near Yosemite, we usually make a short, extra journey to see the lake. Mono… Continue reading

  • Waking the Beast

    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.… Continue reading

  • Behaving Badly

    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… Continue reading

  • Emboldened

    Today I’m reducing the number of supplements I take in an effort to let the Lyme bacteria wake up from their dormant form. It’s a big deal for me. Over the past few weeks, I’ve slowly been reducing the number… Continue reading

  • Sweet Relief

    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,… Continue reading