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…
Positivity, Acceptance and Gratefulness in Tow, Healing is Still HARD! — A Personal + Vulnerable Reflection
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. —Mahatma Gandhi Updated: June 20, 2021 Healing. Is. HARD — Period. Stating the obvious, I know… but, seriously! To each and every living being coping with challenges…
Acceptance — A Powerful Element of Healing… and in Life
Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. —Steve Maraboli Acceptance and the Healing Journey In following along with my reflections, you may notice the recurrent reference to illness and healing as a journey. That is what…
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…
18 Months Post Stem Cells – The Here and Now of My Healing Journey
18 Months Post SVF Stem Cells Wow! Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Wait. What? Oh, I see what I did. Silly me. I typed the phrase we’re all familiar with. Muscle memory inside this noggin of mine must…
Stem Cells – Week 10 – My Lyme Disease Healing Journey
STEM CELLS UPDATE: 10 WEEKS DOWN! Ten weeks! Wow! I am a little uncertain how I feel about this stemmiversary. There are times when it seems as though the past few months have flown by, then moments when I…
Let the Healing Begin!
Well my friends, it has been quiet here lately. Seems I’ve still been trying to find my voice, and seriously lacking the energy to Blather. How nice for you to have the break from my ramblings! In my previous post,…
Grieving. Coping. Searching for My Voice.
Grieving. Coping. Searching for My Voice. Who knew writing about life and feelings could be so difficult? Especially for someone who loves to share her thoughts and strong opinions – generally unsolicited! I shared in my last Blathering that I was…
It’s My Bloggiversary!
That’s right kids, I’ve been Blathering on now for a year. Who knew I could ramble on for this long – umm – said no one ever who knows me! Living the Lyme life tends to provide plenty of material. I do…
