Gratitude

Happy 2019! After finally curing my daily migraine of 20 years there are many things I can be grateful for going into 2019.  My chronic illness journey began in 1995 and I never thought I would ever be able to say I no longer suffer from daily migraines.  I never thought I would have one…

Lyme Disease Awareness 2018

Today is the last day of May so I am doing this post to raise awareness for this horrific, debilitating and potentially fatal disease. Here are important facts about Lyme Disease A negative test does not mean you do not have Lyme Disease (no matter how many times they run it).  Testing Lyme is commonly…

Can you heal your illness by retraining your brain? I say YES!!

So this past week I spent 5 days attending a DNRS seminar.  It was an amazing experience.  DNRS stands for Dynamic Neural Retraining System.  DNRS was created by Annie Hopper.  You can see her website here.   The program is very well run and Annie was with two other instructors for the 5 days.  All…

Tweet Fest for Lyme Disease Awareness #FindACure4Lyme

Want to help raise more awareness about Lyme Disease?  If so, we need your help! There is a group on Facebook that is organizing a tweet fest for awareness.  The link to the Facebook group is here.  It's a private group that you join. It is a support group too. Even if you do not have Lyme…

Chronic Lyme Disease: Life with a Chronic Illness

I recently came across this great video of people describing what it is like living with Lyme Disease.  It's really hard for "healthy" people to understand and they say.. You don't get it until you get it. This is so true.  You can not even in your most vivid imagination comprehend how horrific, debilitating, painful…

What is Mycoplasma?

I've been reading more and more about Mycoplasma and I am shocked by what I am finding out.  I''m still in the learning phase about but feel it's important to blog about.   Apparently, most everyone (75%) with Lyme Disease have Mycoplasma. I tested (high range) positive for Mycoplasma pneumonia, which is the most common one for Lymies.…

I have lost all faith, trust and confidence in our medical community.

Why? Because the medical doctors have failed me for over 20 years. I have been  disrespected, dismissed, treated like a drug addict, bullied, told I can't be a patient anymore because I could not drive an hour to my appointment while throwing up,  told I need psychiatric medications, and misdiagnosed for 20 years! WAKE UP…