Lyme Awareness & Getting Out

May, my birth month, is also Lyme Disease Awareness month. Funny, that’s exactly the month that I have been bitten and contracted Lyme twice now. I always do like being timely.

These days I find I’m able to make it outside more.  I’m attempting to run instead of walking and yoga.  I’ve been able to add strength training back into my days.  I’m seeing friends and doing things with my family that months ago I would have had to forgo.  A month ago going out for coffee would have been my only activity for the day.  Just this weekend we hit up the Cirque De Soliel show, Luzia and took in a baseball game.  A NIGHT game.  I wasn’t asleep or crumpled in pain and needing a detox bath.  This is HUGE.  It is life-giving.

Just look!

And I got dressed in something besides leggings and comfy shoes to go meet a friend for coffee.

Black Wrap Top/Skinny Jeans/Blue Suede Flats/Structured Bag/Scarf

It feels so good to feel like I’m being reborn much like spring itself.

The winter was long.  My path to wellness has been full of ups and downs.  The list of symptoms I’ve encountered from Lyme could fill pages.  Get the facts. The disease is growing so fast and NoVA is one of the hotbeds for the illness.  And know that finding a treatment can be a long road with few people understanding or even believing you when you tell them what is wrong.  I saw countless doctors who told me one thing or another.  Many just wanted to medicate me and send me on my way.  I felt like I was dying inside and trapped with no one listening.

I have Lyme disease but I also I have three co-infections.  Bartonella, Ehrlichia, and Babesia.  Treatment for these four things has been a slow build.  My life as I knew it had to go away.  I know my journey is not over and I wouldn’t wish this on anyone but I deeply feel the need to educate others about Lyme.  It is hard to diagnose and takes seconds to become infected.  Treatments are not one-size fits all.

I’m seeing the light.  I believe that my year of healing is working.  I’m getting out of bed, off the couch and heading outdoors and enjoying life for the first time in a while.  In a way, doesn’t that seem just perfect that it is May once again where it all began?  You can also help others and donate here.

 

 

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