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 is my breathing. It gets difficult, so I slow down and walk. Not this time. My lungs and bronchi were fine. My knees began to hurt early on. I felt […]
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 was her Rife machine (which is the category of technology that coil machines fit into). Instead she took the view of a scientist, correlation does not equal causation, and she […]
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 Lake has some pretty special features. It is filled with water from snow that has fallen on the surrounding Sierra Mountains, and it has no outlet. Year after year, the […]
I spent the last two weeks on the road. I had adventures with my sister and her family. I visited my parents. I had a good time on the East Coast. While I was away, I did a few experiments, most notably eating bitter melon for the first time and using a probiotic approach to getting rid of Tinea versicolor. I ran around and played and discovered that my muscle […]
It’s been a rough couple of days. The Bartonella is definitely striking back. Beyond the physical stuff, which I’ll get to in a few paragraphs, there is the emotional toll. Bartonella makes me feel hopeless. I never can quite tell when it’s happening, but it exaggerates the feelings I already have about living with a chronic illness. Sometimes, I can focus on the positive and get past it. But every […]
Healing from a chronic illness requires a tremendous amount of patience. Somethings are slow. Some things take a long time to happen. Some things require a persistence that I’m learning I have within me. Last week, I was waiting for my menstrual cycle to start. It was late. I was having all the symptoms of a late period: flaring of my currently active infection (this time Bartonella), no appetite, fatigue, […]
It’s been a rough week. Yet again. This is the hard part, I remind myself, but not the hardest part. I’ve already made it through the hardest part back before I had a diagnosis or a way past this illness. Now is hard because I want to do the things I could do last month instead of suffering through a Bartonella flare. There are a few things going on. First, […]
Since the last blog post, I had a few friends in town. One friend from NYC came for a week and we went out and did a lot of fun stuff: whale watching, visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium, eating deep fried artichokes, going to the beach and walking in the slough and lots more. Before she got here, I had planned to coil the regular amount while she was here: […]
Outdoors and Alive I’ve been doing a lot again. It’s great in so many ways. I spent a long weekend in Yosemite and saw how much of a difference this past year of coiling has made. I never wrote about what I learned last year when I went because when I came back, I was in wedding planning mode. This year, I have some leisure time to think over both […]
I went to a new gynecologist last week for my annual exam. We talked a little about my menstrual cycle, including the extended PMS I’ve been suffering from the past few months. Her solution was to give me birth control pills so I won’t ovulate anymore. I resisted. She insisted. I resisted some more. She told me to think about it and call her if I changed my mind. She […]
Coiling for Lyme 