Lyme Disease
Life With Neurologic Lyme — A Personal Reflection, Part 2 | The Calm
Creative thought (outside the lines of real life happenings) might be on an extended hiatus… for an undetermined length of time. Brainwaves have been (and remain) quite occupied of late, soldiering away. Sparking to attention, frantically, within a moments notice.…
Life With Neurologic Lyme Disease — A Personal Reflection, Part 1
Steps Forward, Systemic Flares, Seizures and Setbacks — A Revolving Door, This Life With Lyme Neuroborreliosis How quickly one’s circumstances can change — in a week, a day… a moment. Perhaps with hints of warning, or life purely adjusting at…
How I Became a Sick Person
Written by Ross Douthat — originally published by The New York Times — October 23, 2021 The long-term form of Covid-19 has something in common with other forms of chronic illness — strange and varied symptoms, lasting debilitation, no certain…
Life with Lyme Series: Brandi — ‘Mission to Remission‘
In this edition of Life with Lyme Series, our featured guest is Brandi — Mission to Remission. Brandi bravely shares a glimpse into her personal struggles of living with Chronic Lyme and tick-borne diseases; a familiar journey that too many…
Life with Lyme Series: Carol — Plans Change
Welcome to the first installment of a new series to the blog: Life with Lyme, featuring guest posts written by friends and fellow Lyme disease fighters + survivors — sharing snapshots from within their world — living with Lyme and…
Lyme Disease — Patient Plead with a Side of Rant
Experiencing various levels of Lyme late one night, I shared segments of the following reflections with Twitterland. Thoughts and feelings simply needing to be released. Emotions completely relatable to many. Too many. Lyme Disease Plead with a Side of Rant…
Treatment Conundrum: Finding Balance When Living with Late-Stage Lyme and Chronic Disease
To Treat or Not to Treat? That is the Question. One of Many. If Treatment, What Modality? How Long to Treat? What if You’re Not Getting Better…??? For patients fighting long-term illness, questions and concerns regarding treatment(s) may always be…
Moving Beyond the Darkness — Lyme, Chronic Illness and Life
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. —Eckhart Tolle Unexpected struggles and challenges throughout our lifetime (the bumpy pieces-parts) can affect…
Illness and Healing — Finding Joy in the Journey
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. —Archimedes Short, straight distances between points A and B rarely apply to daily life. Well, except for math. And architecture. Oh, and infrastructure. Art. Sports. Nature… Okay, so straight lines,…
Healing 2.0 – Peptides. Exosomes. And Hope.
What a journey — this gig of trying to regain one’s health. Pesky layers of illness. Layers and layers. Debilitating. Life-altering. Complicated. Frustrating. And at times, stratospherically overwhelming. That’s a lot of overwhelmingness! Totally been cramping my “sassy” style. Here’s…
