The Artemesinin came!

Checked the mail today after picking up the kids from school and low and behold...the artemesinin was in there which means I can now get started on it after waiting 3 weeks for it! My doctor's office sent it out but it got lost in the mail so I ordered my own from amazon. Love that my husband signed up for amazon prime. The significance is that after using the artemesinin for a week I can then start the doxycycline (my doctor is judging my reaction to the herbs before starting the antibiotics) that has been sitting on my counter for the last 2 weeks. I feel excited and hopeful to start combatting lyme but then after reading some people's accounts of their reactions to the medications for lyme I feel scared. Scared that my body won't be able to take it and it will be in worse condition or scared that it won't help at all. But these feelings are NOTHING compared to the valley's I have walked through for much longer periods of time. The overwhelming anxiety is no longer a daily presence and that is HUGE. This morning I felt pretty down in the dumps - and you know what I just did? I was just going to get my son who is home sick from school a McFlurry and I ended up getting myself a small fry and chocolate shake. Nice. But, I feel a little happier. Not good in the end but nice for now :-)! But in my defense I did juice 3 apples, 6 carrots, 4 mustard green leaves, 6 fresh prunes, a bunch of cilantro and a bunch of parsley for my breakfast.

Feeling a bit down

Well, in light of yesterday and then staying up and eating 2 fat-free chocolate pudding snacks and a handful of crackers with light spreadable cheese, I am feeling down. Good news, I got a message back from a local (well 45 minute away) support group that they are taking new attendees so that is good. They even asked how I was feeling. That was so nice. Because I know they know, at least I think they know so it means more when they ask. Friends and family that have asked about lyme haven't written back after I share what I am going through and that hurts. They just can't relate and so they don't write back. It is like shutting down a big part of me when I can't talk to them about what is going on and making small talk about stuff that seems so unimportant in light of the devastation I have experienced due to Lyme. I just wish it wasn't so but most I have to put myself in their shoes. They have never experienced it so they may just pull away. I very well might have done the same with a friend I knew who had changed because of an illness. Now if it was something else that they could understand or know about like cancer, they would probably all be surrounding me with encouragement. That is why I need a support group - I'm just sad. That quote I wrote from a doctor in one of my first posts seems to be true.

"Many patients report a lack of understanding among employers, family, and friends as being the most frustrating aspect of Lyme disease. The fatigue that accompanies it often is seen as laziness, or lack of desire, especially after the disease enters its second or third week of treatment".

The idea is that you just get better from taking a little bit of medicine for Lyme. My non-lyme friends think this way apparently. Wish they would read wikipedia. I don't want to get to down on this. I will mend. And be grateful for the newfound support group. On a side note - I prayed that God would speak to me from my devotional book and felt lead to open up to page 92. There it talked about being in a could of darkness and feeling lonely and that God is there with me in that loneliness and the darkness. I just needed someone to understand how I felt and that someone for me is God. God knew I was feeling really, really lonely after the let-down conversation with my doctor. And God knew that I needed to know that He knew. For this, I am so grateful. I am grateful that He is there and I am hopeful and full of faith that He knows and is leading me to the path of recovery. I still feel betrayed by Him though. As in, I was serving Him with all my heart, and then came down with this. How could he lead me to be in area with Lyme? Why didn't he move us to another area? I know to some that may sound ridiculous but that is where my faith and trust was at in God before all this happened. Complete trust that my life would turn out perfect because I had given it to him. I still believe that in ways and that is why I feel betrayed by him. At the same time, why do I think this? Paul had an affliction that God told him that he wasn't going to heal, John was banished to Patmos, Jesus died on a cross and I am sure the list goes on. He did promise that he would be with us in these trials. But then there are those scriptures (Psalm 91) that says he places a shield about us but I'm telling you my mom prayed every day for us and there are some family members that don't seem like they have benefited. Where is that shield. I trust it is there. I trust he is moving despite my lack of understanding. I trust that I am the child and he is the Father and he has the bigger picture and there is a lot I don't understand but there are those moments where I get angry and upset at Him nonetheless. But still, I am thankful that he knows where I am at and he cares enough to let me know He knows.

I feel alone

I feel really alone in this. I don't have a support group that I am a member of. We are moving to Australia at the beginning of the year and I am planning to check out the American Women's Club there but there most likely will not be people who have Lyme Disease there. One of my old best friends wrote and asked if I had started the meds yet and I said "no" because I am starting with herbals first. She also wrote that people start feeling alot better. I hope that is true but I have my doubts with the chronic lyme. After my doctor appointment today I just feel left alone. In my world, people just don't really understand. I have one friend that does BUT she is doing rifing and bio-energetics and that is not the path I am going down for now. I am going to go down the antibiotic pathway so again I feel alone. I think I need to find other's who are doing this with me. I just feel so lonely. I want to be understood. I want to be comforted by someone who knows what it is like but maybe I will be that person that I wanted for me for someone else someday. Oh, and I went 170 over my daily calories for the day...the darn 7 mcnuggets and 1 chicken select from McDonalds. Off to cook dinner for the littles and then put them to bed.

Doctor doesn't want me anymore...but...

I have been doing a 5htp and tyrosine spray clinical trial with my doctor. It has helped me a ton. Every 2 weeks (actually it is usually every month to two :-)), I go in and give a urine sample. Serotonin, epinephrine and nor-epinephrine levels are all tested and we dose the number of sprays of 5htp and tyrosine off those test results. Because he is in-network it costs me only $5 to see him and then $5 for the test that is about a $300 test normally. But he doesn't want me because I am doing herbs and he thinks they are messing up the tests. They actually haven't changed the urine at all but he does an additional orthostasis test where he monitors my blood pressure sitting down, then after lying down for 10 minutes in a dim room, then standing up in a lighted room after the lying down. He does some calculations off that but I took reservatrol last night (2 capsules of source naturals) and I think it gave me insomnia. I was really restless/tingly in my joints as well (and I think it is Lyme die-off but he informed me that is "speculation"). Anyways, his company that does the neurotransmitter testing also does a cytokine testing that he uses to test for Lyme. He said that he didn't get into Lyme for years because of the controversy but he now treats his patients with minocycline and "no" it doesn't interfere with the neurotransmitter testing. It's quite obvious that we are not reading the same material nor or on the same page with this because minocycline would not touch the Lyme according to what I have read from Burrascano and other lyme literate physicians. He said that we should reduce our office visits. I guess I just need to understand what I have come to understand. Every doctor has their boundaries and their limits. Some are more open than others and this particular doctor has his limits. I know in my heart he wants to be my primary doctor and treat the lyme and he doesn't want to work with some naturopath who is giving me herbs that he doesn't know anything about, nor does he trust and my pulse is he thinks she must be some flake because I do phone appointments and said "herbs come from China and they have all sorts of contaminants". I informed him that my naturopath graduated from Bastyr University and she only gives out high-quality supplements but you know - Doctors - in my experience have their minds set and I mean SET, set, SET! So here is where I am at. I really didn't want to do the herbs in the first place with my naturopath but only did them to appease her. I really just wanted to get started on the antibiotics. If I don't take the herbs anymore and just do the antibiotics with her, my stubborn doctor may continue to treat me as I am not doing herbs. But, the herbs seem to be helping with restlessness. I am now able to sit down and do little projects, read books with my kids without always feeling the need to get up. But there is a downside and I am not sure what these are from. I have several age spots on my hands as of late. Yes, I live in Texas and yes I spend time in the sun but these have appeared the month I started doing the herbs so I am inclined to think that they ARE the herbs. I have also added a milk thistle/dandelion liver cleansing pill to my nightly vitamin regimen as well as added L-carnitine to my daily repetoire (to help shuttle fat into my mitochondria and use it to make energy as I was depleted in carnitine via testing that I had done). The outcome - well, I think he still may not want to treat me because I will be doing antibiotics with my naturopath because I am 100% behind her methods and my other doc is obviously not LLMD educated with his minocycline routine (and he has a bio-film buster). He wouldn't even listen to me when I tried to explain to him that the herbs she uses are most likely NOT unregulated. Oh well. Another twist, he forgets everything all the time and references his notes so if he didn't write down that I am taking herbs he may have forgotten and they may have stabilized in my system by the time I go back in for the urine and orthostasis test and he won't remember. That would be great! So I kinda wouldn't mind dropping the herbs because of these age (liver) spots on my hands (just a couple 1/4 inch light brown ovals that have appeared) but at the same time it feels great to have that restless feeling gone whatever it is from. And the more I read from Stephen Buhner's book on Healing Lyme, the more I am inclined to try herbs (but maybe after a year on antibiotics?...I don't know). I need to pray and need to trust God. The good news? When he told me he wanted to see me less because of the herbs, I said "so you want to see me monthly then?" and he said yes. Hah! They wanted me to go in every 2 weeks but because I have mostly got this 5htp/Tyrosine routine down, I manage to go in every month so I will just be continuing more of the same! We'll see if I get by like this. That is where I am at right now. Emotionally, when he began to say he didn't want to treat me because of the herbs, I could feel that adrenaline fight-or-flight response kick in...a pang of anxiety in my stomach, then when I got home, the desire to just shove food in my mouth because I feel stress. I think it may be God's grace that I asked him to go in every month and he agreed to it. In any given situation, I might have entered into a conflict with him, and I am glad that I didn't. He is a doctor that doesn't want you to tell him anything knew, thinks he knows it all but at the same time I believe God allowed me to go to him because he has played an important part in my recovery. I receive virtually free neurotransmitter testing from him, feedback on my supplements and what is working and I was able to get off the lithium and transition to just 5-htp and tyrosine and be anxiety and depression free! And another great thing - I am really low in those things naturally so it makes sense that they would make me feel better! I had my blood tested for amino acid levels and I was really low in tryptophan (of which 5-htp is made from) and phenylalanine (which tyrosine is made from). So I give you thanks God for this in my life! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!

myfooddiary.com

Just joined for the free 1 week trial and then after that it is $9 a month. So far so good. Right now I am REALLY lethargic feeling. The past few days, I had hot flashes, and felt pretty depressed. I wonder if that is the babesia duncani at work?

Suckered!

Today I went to the grocery store and purchased a package of fresh chocolate chip cookies "for the kids". Truly this was my intention but that little voice inside said "you are going to eat them".

Ugh. And I did. I have been doing pretty good making the transition into eating more raw food. Had a salad for dinner with avocado, tomato and lettuce and grilled chicken. I know the avocado is high in fat and chicken is protein which can be hard to digest with Lyme (and my low pancreatic enzyme status) but it is a move in the right direction. I have been juicing and I even bought beets today from the grocery store as well as 2 fresh bunches of cilantro and 2 of parsley, mustard greens (my daughter picked them and I smelled them and threw them in the cart as they past the smell test) and carrots. The lady at the checkout said "someone's eating healthy" but then down came the 5 pound bag of sugar, 6 chocolate fat free jello pudding snacks, a bag of big marshmallows that my daughter asked for and then those chocolate chip cookies. All I went down the baking aisle was for canola oil for the fresh popcorn I make for my kids as an after dinner snack and what I came back with was the oil and about 10 pounds of sugar. I got suckered in. Earlier, I was at the library with my daughter and found a cute book about a pig making a cake and so I decided that when we read the book we could bake the cake as well. Problem is, after eating 8 chocolate chip cookies, yes 8, I have learned something new about myself that I think I have known for a long time. I am a sucker for baked goods. They draw me in. My number one thing - a fresh loaf of white french bread. That is my ultimate. My number one allergy - yeast. Go figure. When I eat bread, I almost choke it down because I think my throat slightly closes up. I know that sounds terrible but I don't have an allergy in the allergy doctor form of the word allergy. I have a delayed allergy which is and IgG response (not the IgE life threatening response) and that allergy is to baker's yeast...my downfall. So, I need to NOT bring these things in the house because they call to me!

So far...no herx and no antibiotics...

Ola! So far no herxes (well, two nights in I had a mega headache and nausea but I think it was the caprylic acid & oregano oil capsules that I added into my lyme mix). The lyme mix is:

5 drops liposomal glutathione first thing in the morning

1 dropperful of smilax 2x/day

5 drops of fresh teasel tincture 3x/day

10 drops of lyme support 3x/day (astralagus, cat's claw, andrographis)

1 capsule of Dr. Zhang's HH2 formula 3x/day

Reactions so far. Been doing great. One thing I have notice (and again I am not sure if it is due to these herbs, to the 5 mcg t3, or to the L-Carnitine) but I feel like I am not agitated anymore. As in, when I sit down, I can hang out with my kids, rather than feel the need to get up to do something. I am content to linger just a bit longer - and it feels really good. The problem with starting these things all at the same time is that I really don't know what to attribute it to.

My naturopath's office is usually incredible about getting me everything I need but I am waiting on a supply of artemesia. I am to start that and see what my reaction is to that in order for my doctor to be able to see how strong I might react to the antibiotics. So far so good. Curious to see about the artemsia. I want to start the antibiotics in a week (Sept 1st was my goal) so I am hoping it gets here soon. Maybe it got lost in the mail. Overall, I am extremely pleased with my naturopath, she is reasonable, smart, efficient and on top of technology and goes to the latest conferences PLUS she is from Australia and although she practices in the states, she conducts bi-annual clinics in Oz. Maybe this is God tying all these loose ends together. Letting me trust him.

Side note. I am low in Immunoglobulin Subclass 2. One of my doctors who I no longer see because she charges $500/hr ordered these tests but never interpreted them for me. It is my understanding that transfer factor and bovine colostrum could possibly build up these immunoglobulin subclasses. Still looking into that. My naturopath has me on Researched Nutritonals Transfer Factor Multi-Immune but when I am done with the bottle I am going to switch to a different kind or brand because it has beta-glucan which is a yeast derivative as well as mushrooms which through testing I know my body does not like (I have an IgG response to both yeast and mushrooms).

That's it for now :-)

Fit

I wish I was fit. That is all. But now I know that I have Lyme, I know what I am fighting and hopefully I will get fitter faster. Less calories, raw food, minimal protein and exercise every other day. If I had a few wishes #1 would be to be 130 pounds, wish #2 would be that my family would be healthy and #3 that we would all be social (as my life has led us to be much more reclusive than we ever were before). I just want to be surrounded by friends and good times and family but also have time to our family. It was once that way, before my health took a turn for the terrible. That's all. What I am doing? I am drinking the lemon water in the morning and through out the day and I am steadily making changes. It just takes time to figure out what works and to implement those changes. I don't really think I am loosing much weight. I am taking 5 (mcg?) of t-3. A really small dose. My naturopath didn't think I needed it based on my labs but I requested it so she gave me a tiny dose. My morning temp was low and even when I had strep throat with chills and aches and fatigue, my temp was not able to rise. Dr. Klinghardt mentioned the use of t-3 in Lyme but my TSH is fairly low so not necessarily indicative of thyroid but I wanted to give it a try just to see. Not sure if it is helping at all. I think I even might feel a slight headache from it but I am not sure if it is that or something else. I am still working my way through the Gerson Therapy book. It is a very stringent diet (no animal protein, no salt, no sugar, no nuts). I hope that this way of eating cuts through the insulin resistance. You know what, I was just looking through my labs and saw that for the first time in my life I had elevated hdl and ldl cholesterol. I have NEVER had elevated cholesterol! That was a surprise because my doctor never said a thing to me. Anyway, hopefully this diet will help with that as well. What a disaster Lyme is. It is an exhausting, time-consuming journey. But I have come so far, what is left is killing the lyme, losing all the extra weight I've gained, exercise, and removing the PMS and it would be great if my hair would go back to it's beautiful straight self (instead of this curly mess it became from the Lyme...what the heck?!)

It takes time to make a change

I have been absorbing information from different raw food and juicing websites. I am going to read the book the Gerson Therapy. A new change I implemented this morning is warm water with lemon (I used lime) first thing in the morning as a tonic and to alkalize my body. It could help with weight loss. That would be great. Right now I am eating about 40% raw, maybe 35%. I am seeking to keeping eating more raw but just educating myself on how to do it. This morning I also read on the benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar. That may be something I add to my health repertoire in the future. I also am needing to work on the consitpation issue. I only go once a day, in the morning, and with detoxification it is good to go 3 times a day so that toxins released from the Lyme can't re-intoxicate by sitting in the intestines so long that they get reabsorbed. From what I remember acidophilus may help but we shall see. I really need to get moving. Five days ago I exercised - 15 minute walk on the treadmill, a couple sets of push ups and situps and that was it! I think today I need to do it again.

Lyme Treatment Update

So three days into the teasel & Lyme support formula, I had nausea where I kept a bowl by me feeling like I was going to throw up. I had a stunning headache as well and was just plain weak. I wasn't necessarily super fatigued but just weak. Weak as in when I spoke, I spoke very quietly and when people were loud it felt way too loud. But that passed. It has been 2 days and I added Dr. Zhang's HH2 capsules as prescribed by my naturopathic doctor. She wants to see how I respond to the herbals (which target lyme and co-infections differently) and that will give her a good guestimate of how I will respond to the antibiotics. As is, I am going to do the HH2 and hopefully will be able to tell a reaction from that but right now I don't feel a thing. I am taking 1 capsule, 3x a day. After that I am to add in Artemesian because my IGeneX co-infections lab came back positive for Babesia duncani. Great. I just read that it is the hardest to treat from a Lyme doc. That was something I didn't think I had. I have all the classic and unfortunate symptoms of a BLO (bartonella like organism) co-infection but it didn't come back positive for that. I would have never known about the babesia. My friend has that and she has air hunger and palpitations but I never get those so I just didn't think it was possible. On that note, I just didn't think Lyme was possible in my case. Just because I never had a tick bite and the people I knew who had had Lyme disease had all been in the hospital and on death's door.

Feelings & Validation

Well, I am grateful. Today, a relative called, of whom I have had the impression that they think I am a hypochondriac, and they said that Lyme is really bad, like cancer. I am just grateful to have others know how bad the suffering truly is. I had resolved not to mention a single symptom when discussing daily life with this relative because I feel like I am just met with silence. Maybe the fact that I am always researching and talking about my vitamins and my hyper-focus on my health comes across as hypochondria. However, it is not. It is a passion for life. If you had lived a great life and all of a sudden it is snatched from you and you don't know what happened but you know "this is not me" then you might fight and become a little obsessed about regaining your health too. Maybe it's these determined, persistent people that drive doctors and others who don't understand what that is like crazy and then they are labeled a hypochondriac. Not that hypochondriacs don't exist, I am sure they do but passion for getting better is not hypochondria and nor is desperation to get better. Others may just accept their new diagnosis and never give a thought to fighting back. I didn't know all this time it was Lyme causing my symptoms but regardless I have never been content with my condition. I went from being a strong, vibrant young woman to being an overweight, depressed and chronically ill person who couldn't exercise. People (my husband included) thought that was all in my head today. I think validation is so important. When they finally realize and they finally know you truly are suffering, that you are not making this stuff up, that something happened to change you from the person you once were to the person you are today.

I read this on wikipedia today and I couldn't agree more

"Many patients report a lack of understanding among employers, family, and friends as being the most frustrating aspect of Lyme disease. The fatigue that accompanies it often is seen as laziness, or lack of desire, especially after the disease enters its second or third week of treatment".

So, so true.

Anyways. It feels so good to be validated!

Feelings

Day 3 of taking Lyme Support (adrographis, cats claw and astralagus) and I have a headache. Last night, I emailed a relative and a friend and for some reason I was verbose and wrote down everything I am doing including the vitamins I am taking and all. No one has written me back. I guess maybe I overwhelmed them. I want them to love to hear about it because that is where I am at but I have to understand they are just not in the same place I am at. I want the affirmation that sharing those things is okay, but instead I don't feel it. Maybe they will write, I don't know but maybe I overwhelmed them. There is also a side of the family that just thinks Lyme may be another one of my rabbit trails even though I haven't been down any. They are not from the East Coast so they just don't know how truly devastating Lyme can be. People on the East Coast have a bit of a better idea. So I guess right now I feel alone. I want everyone to understand, but I need to understand right now that they can't. Saw the movie The Help today. Loved it. But saw it by myself, which is a first in my life. I just couldn't think of a single friend here in Dallas (I only have 1!) that would be interested in seeing it with me and I honestly haven't felt up to it until today even though it came out on Wednesday. The movie theatre at the 12:15 show was packed...there were only a handful of tickets left and I got one and sat in the 2nd row to the front, in the right aisle, next to two other ladies who had went to see the movie by themselves. Can't count on my hands the number of times I was in tears. I guess that book just touched so many people's hearts like mine. Gives me the courage to be different like Skeeter and see change for the good from it. Whatever and wherever that may be.

Politics

I feel overwhelmed with the politics of Lyme. I just try not to read it or avoid it. I have watched Under Our Skin and read 4 Lyme books but I just have a hard time reading about the controversy because it just energy sapping and negative and sad. The only reason I am bringing it up is that I have an Immunoglobulin Subclass 2 deficiency and I was looking into getting IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulins) for it. My insurance company (Aetna) does not allow for IVIG treatment for Lyme. Seriously, just exhausting. I guess rich patients just pay for what they need anyway. I guess the question I am asking is, is there any way that I can raise my IgG subclass 2 without IVIG. Will treating the Lyme, allow them to raise on their own? In the words of a Lyme Doctor, "Lyme patients are truly some of the sickest people on the planet" and we really need support of the community including doctors, and infectious disease specialists and the like. It is unfortunate, yet understandable, that they operate within certain guidelines because their medical license is their living and they have invested alot of time, money and energy into getting it and don't want to lose it for treating Lyme. But seriously, get real. I guess the Lyme Doctors out their are the really, really self-sacrificial ones who their calling and their desire to help people rises above their concerns for their daily living. That or they have had Lyme and they know how bad it truly is.

Reading, reading, reading

Reading and studying is theraputic for me. Armed with information, I set out with new hope to conquer ill-health in my body. Now I know I have Lyme, it makes it a little easier to know what to do, well ALOT easier other than the fact that half of the stuff I have already done. But that's a good thing, I've done all the nutritional support to get myself to a functioning level (not knowing I had Lyme) and now I need to add the bug fighting part. I see a naturopathic doctor who treats with antibiotics as well as herbs and supplements. She is also Australian which is a good thing because we are moving to Australia next year. Currently I have read, Insights into Lyme Disease Treatment, The Lyme Diet, Healing Lyme and I am now beginning The Lyme Disease Solution. I have The Gerson Therapy to go which is a chronic disease/cancer juicing diet book that I found interest in while perusing the internet for juicing books as well as later happened to be talking to a friend who recommended juicing and mention Gerson. Coincindence. Maybe. Or maybe a still small voice leading me gently. My doctor wants me to take liposomal glutathione, Multi Immune Transfer Factor and Smilax the first week. Then add Teasel and Lyme Support Formula (cat's claw, astralagus, andrographis and ???) the second week and then follow it up with a Dr. Zhang HH2 conconction which is some sort of herb to deal with the bartonella co-infection that I have all the symptoms for along with the Borrellia (Lyme) infection. I will get the test results back in a week or so. I want to know what the results are but I haven't really gone into her protocol yet. I have only added the Transfer Factor Multi-Immune into my routine. Reason being, is that I have had strong reactions to supplements in the past, notably liposomal glutathione (irritability) and progesterone cream (extreme fatigue and lack of motivation), so I have developed a personal philosophy to only add 1 thing at a time and feel the effects of it. But I have changed my diet - I am driving fresh squeezed lime water to alkalize my body (as my ph is 6.0), I am juicing with carrots, apples, lettuce, cilantro and parsley. I just started a protein shake today. It is hard to find balance with all the things that I need to do to bring it all together. Right now I am working that out but it is something like:

3 freshly juiced drinks with small meal/snack a day (with any antibiotics or herbals)3 protein drinks a snack/day (with detox remedies - bentonite, etc)Vitamins/at bedtime
I don't know if I can do all those meals. It will be like 7 meals so we shall see. Just really small!
But I have to say. Now I know what I am fighting. I don't struggling with temptations to indulge in bad food like I used to. My head now know what I am fighting and I am in the game to beat this thing and lose...100 pounds!

Shipping is Free!

Shipping is free for Amazon Prime members. Kevin signed up for Amazon Prime this year so I am making the most of it. Just ordered 7 books from Amazon and 5 of them are about Lyme disease. I think reading and gathering information is part of how I deal with my health issues. Well, I know it is. I have dug myself out of a deep ill-health hole just by studying, trying new things, waiting several months to learn the lasting effects of that particular supplement or vitamin and then adding something else. Some things I know the day of that they don't work. Like when I applied progesterone cream and I was laid flat in bed for two days from it. That was a nightmare! But most things aren't like that. Breakthrough supplements for me? zinc. magnesium. b-5. b-2. vitamin c. aces+zinc. nu medical mineral-plex. natural care 'appetite' homeopathic supplement for energy. fish oil. I think that is what I live off every day. I have just started juicing so that should be interesting. It seems that once you have Lyme...late state...it changes your life forever. As in, the bugs don't all go away but they mostly go away. Hopefully for me...they will all go away!

Moving, moving, moving and Lyme treatment

Well, we will be moving to Perth next year. Excited? Relieved. Hopeful. Weighing the challenge of it all. Been recently diagnosed with Lyme Disease. The reason for it all. All the pain. Lyme. I don't really want to move. I want to stay here and treat the heck out of this disease and get better. In Australia, things are twice as expensive and that would include all the medical treatment that insurance doesn't cover. That doesn't excite me. Nor does being on a continent where not a single doctor has experience treating Lyme. But, I have good doctors back home. I'll just have to wake up in the middle of the night to talk with them :-). I am actually so relieved to know what has been plaguing me for these past 4 years. Wow.