Lyme Life ~ Travel Tips

Traveling with Lyme can be tough. Lymies have developed ways to manage symptoms ranging from brain fog to severe, migrating joint pain and everything in between. We could all use some travel tips for Lyme ease. Talking with others and in my experience, I developed...

Lyme Life ~Down for the Count

Down for the Count, Up in Three When I was little, my uncle, who was just a year and a half older, and I watched wrestling. It was in the mid-70s. I’ll never forget the scissor-locks. Many of the moves those wrestlers did were tried...

Lyme Life Monday ~ Focus

Focus on this: “What does this make possible?” ~ Michael Hyatt Focus When unexpected events like illness or injury happen, we have the choice to respond with positive thoughts or negative thoughts. Thoughts lead to actions. Actions lead to outcomes. Everyone on earth has had...

Lyme Life Monday ~Demonic

Everything about Lyme Disease points to demonic powers. Demonic I believe the world was created by One Creator. There are simply too many complex structures and intricate processes to come about by random chance. One book, made up of 66 books, explains the way it...

Lyme Life Monday ~Bridges

Bridges were a regular part of my recurring dreams. There were so many different ones. Crossing them was the trouble. There was usually a sense of progress. Bridges One would be a bamboo structure that arched over a stream with its curved, hollow rail and...

Lyme Life ~Why I Quit My Doctor

If the Bible is true, I am healed. So, I quit my doctor. Why quit my doctor? Actually, there is a lot more to it than that. It’s true the Scriptures say that we were healed. A few of passages say we are healed. It says...

Lyme Life ~Beautiful Day

Sometimes it’s hard to find the beauty in a day when you’re so sick. When pain and the management of it are your primary focus, it’s often impossible to experience a beautiful day. Beauty On days like today, however, it would be a crying shame...

Lyme Life ~ Dawg Daze

It’s summer and the dog days roll on. Dawg Daze, if you like. For Lymies, it passes by too often. A few days of activity often means a few days of incapacitation. We push through, right? Dawg Daze Yesterday, I finally pulled the weeds from...

Lyme Life ~ Voodoo Dolls

Many Lymies that I have met have been sick and misdiagnosed for a decade or three. In 1988, I got terribly ill. I’d had lots of aches and pains, lethargy on occasion, stomach problems since childhood, but this was different. Since then, I like the...

Lyme Life ~ Relapse

Lyme sucks. It sucks the life out of a person. It sucks the joy from a day. Often, it sucks the strength from a moment. Lyme sucks peace from a trusting heart. Relapse sucks hope. Relapse happens. But WHY?! Was it a change in meds?...