Surgery #3 Next Tuesday

The belly pain and nausea are not going away. Pelvic ultrasound (what a euphamism!) shows I have a cluster of cysts on my right ovary that do not look normal, and a 5-7 cm uterine fibroid off to one side. Nothing to panic over, according to all the docs I’ve been dealing with during the [...]

Out of comission

Sorry I’ve been off-line for so long. Have a good excuse, though. In the space of six weeks I’ve had:

Three trips to the Emergency Room
Two surgeries
One diagnosis of a very rare condition (Mucosal Fibrosis)

All this in addition to my lovely chronic TBI (Tick Born Illnesses). As you may have guessed, I have lots to say [...]

Back

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, mostly because I had a terrible summer of mostly feeling bad. Same with fall, although there were a few good days (or sometimes hours) where some of you actually saw me!
Since I last wrote, I’ve received these diagnoses via lab tests from my new doc:

Late neurological Lyme disease
Bartonella [...]

But You LOOK Good…

Here’s a couple of things for those of you who want to understand what it’s like to be chronically ill.
First, a good description of Lyme fatigue I found on a support bulletin board. It was an answer to a guy who said he wanted to understand why his formerly vibrant wife (who now has Lyme [...]

The Opposite of Fate

I’ve had a miserable two months. My usual symptoms have gotten worse, and I’ve been hit up with new symptoms that have my head spinning, including shortness of breath, racing irregular heart beat, body-wide hives and insane itching everywhere, including places that just shouldn’t itch (hands, bottoms of my feet, inside my ears, etc.).
After reading [...]