It Not About The Nail…

Or the Lyme. I love that so many people have become increasingly aware of Lyme disease and that it’s being plastered all over social media. I am sent recommendations and informative articles about Lyme treatment potentials every day. I think it’s amazing that so much information is available and that so many people are thinking…

The Forgotten

It is not uncommon for chronically sick people to feel forgotten. People who are not sick go about living life and while their intentions to check in on the sick are good, life has a way of moving the healthy forward while the sick often get left behind and forgotten. Sometimes it can even seem…

Walk As Lions

It’s been over a week since I left Biologix. I am continuing to improve - still have a lot going on (pain - lower but there every day, tachycardia, nausea and digestive issues, coughing, shortness of breath, weakness, etc). I’m sleeping - which is huge. And I'm rebuilding strength daily. Every day is hard. Every…

Work the Problem

In the movie “The Martian”, astronaut/botanist Mark Watney is left behind by his crew who think he died in a freak storm accident. In his efforts to get home alive, he has to solve problem after problem: Contact NASA Ration food Grow food Make water Leave Mars Intercept with crew Slow down Speed up Etc…

Hidden Gem

We are on our last travel day heading for home. We are having an awesome time traveling and I continue to feel positive effects of treatment. My mother-in-law recommended Rye Patch Reservoir as a place for us to stay on our way home. She and my father-in-law would stay here for days at a time…

Life Lost / Life Found

People have certain aspects of life that over time become “the norm”. As kids, we go to school, play with friends, ride bikes, and just have fun. As adults, we go to work, manage our homes, help our kids with schoolwork and hopefully find time and energy to have a little fun too. Chronic pain…

Stumbling Into Healing

Today is the last day of this visit and I have pretty mixed emotions. I am so missing home - my kids and grands. But the people who have cared so lovingly for me these last 3 weeks will be deeply missed. Of all the people I’ve met here at the Biologix Center (formerly Hansa),…

Truth VS Positivity

I recently wrote about Optimistic Realism, being hopeful for good things but honest with yourself about the challenges that currently exist. Being optimistic and having a positive attitude are not the same thing. They can work together, but they are inherently different. Optimism looks to the future for a positive outcome. A positive attitude gives…

I Hope You Dance

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." ~Friedrich Nietsche At one point, I had 135 symptoms related to Lyme and tick diseases that I've talk about with medical doctors who both treat disease and try to ease the symptoms. I’ve realized there are…

I Can Do It All By Myself

When I was 2 years old, we had a fish tank. A mama fish had given birth and my parents put the babies in a small bottle inside the tank to separate them from the bigger fish (so they wouldn’t get eaten). My parents were having a “discussion” in the kitchen one day. I wanted…