PAIN is one of the hardest symptoms to explain - mainly because it’s not a single symptom. Pain happens in lots of places for lots of reasons and with differing degrees of severity and duration. When you have an acute injury to a specific body part, doctors ask you to describe your pain (achy, dull,…
Update: Sept 2025
To be honest, it’s been a struggle to write because it’s hard to come up with words for where I am, where my family is. If I look back over the years since I first became disabled on July 10, 2013, I see huge progress. Back then I was bed bound most of every day,…
Choosing Joy
Someone told me that it seems like our life is really great. It stopped me in my tracks. No, our life is not really great. It’s really hard. It’s really stressful. It is often really lonely and really painful. My husband and I work really hard to choose joy every day. We seek adventure (because…
Hard Fought, Hard Felt, Been Through Hell Hallelujah
My family has been going through some hard times right now. And me personally, I’m physically exhausted, emotionally tanked, mentally fried. It would be easy at times to just be overtaken by negativity and sink into a pool of depression and hopelessness. It’s times like these when I really have to fight to find goodness,…
Toxins & Chronic Illness Forum: Notes from Dr. Harris’ Presentation
Dr. Steven Harris is one of the worlds leading Lyme & tickborne disease doctors and has been my doctor for 11 years. In 1975, there was an outbreak of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in children in Lyme Connecticut. A young rheumatologist, Alan Steere, went to visit and determined it was the result of a viral infection.…
I am always trying to learn more about ways I can improve. I follow lots of Lyme Literate Medical and Naturopath Doctors (LLMD’s and LLND’s) and specialist around the world who understand the numerous conditions associated with Lyme+. Dr. Talks is an online learning forum that brings dozens of doctors together to share their knowledge…
I hear from a lot of people who are totally overwhelmed when it comes to trying to clean up their world. Here’s the truth - IT’S HARD!!! The more I learn, the more overwhelming it seems. And I know it can seem daunting if you look at “everything”. I think if I share all of…
TruDose (PRP) Update
My first round of TruDose (PRP) 8 weeks ago was set to target MCAS (mast cell activation syndrome). I’ve been experiencing a major mast cell flare since then, which apparently is not uncommon. Mast cells are part of the immune system. They respond to specific pathogens by releasing different types of chemicals - most commonly…
Solar Flares & CME’s
On Friday, the sun cast a solar flare and a CME, both of which cause geomagnetic disruptions. Solar flares are bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel at the speed of light, reaching Earth in just over 8 minutes. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's atmosphere…
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