Lyme Life Monday – HeadachesHeadaches are one of the 300 symptoms of Lyme. I often find my shoulders raised, in a tense state with headache pain. It occurs to me that I could be tense because of the headache or I could have the headache...
Lyme sucks the life right out of everything. The meds and supplements in the photo above, are a bridge to help me retrieve it. Life, that is. It has been rough. My faith has been challenged, like never before. My relationships have been challenged. Our...
When I was homeschooling my children, I would tell people to use the books, don't let the books use you. There was a lot of, what I called "make-work" in some books. For example, if the subject was an event in history, there would be...
As I sat in my living room, engaging in a bit of a pity party for myself, I tried to be objective about 2015. It was a devastating year. I felt like my life would end almost every day. Despite how I felt, I had...
I know very few people who have truly relaxing Christmas traditions. Most are a flurry of activity. Parties, pastries, and plenty of 'off diet' foods.We splurge at Christmas time. The holidays are very often self indulgent. Sure there are gifts and the giving is fun,...
Lyme has taught me much about life. Long before I had a diagnosis, there were lessons about how to manage life with a body that doesn't cooperate. I guess they are some pretty universal truths. So, I'll share a few with you. I think a...
Most everyone gets colds every once in a while. When I get colds, it hits me a bit differently than the people around me. When my children were little and they got a cold, I would get really, down-for-the-count sick. I never understood it. All...
When I started this blog with the new theme, I expected to be actively fighting sex trafficking. Having survived four years of living in my sneakers and child sexual abuse from toddlerhood, God has brought me so far; from uttermost to uttermost.Yesterday, I received a...
It's been one of those days. Every inanimate object is my enemy today. I haven't even seen any people yet; not even a digital interaction and I am frustrated and exhausted.I wake up in pain. That's just my life with Lyme, but some days it's...
In 2014, I bought my husband ballroom dance lessons for his birthday.Mark was so happy. The studio was very nice and the instructors knowledgeable and kind. They took us very slowly through the basics. They sold private lessons and allowed students to join in on...