Wouldn't that be such a strange twist of fate if these silly memes that are coming from the COVID pandemic bring more attention to Lyme Disease, and from that attention everything Lyme-related gets an extra oomph of the push we need to improve treatment options, insurance coverage, testing, and increase support for Lyme's financial, physical… Continue reading Look Lymies! We’ve gone viral… 😉
Okay, so apparently - May is Lyme Disease Awareness month?? Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier?! 🙂 Well in honor of having our very own fancy month, LymeDisease.org offer their "Lyme in the Time of COVID" magazine issue for FREE. Thanks guys! "Free" and "Lyme Disease" never seem to go together - just the… Continue reading Lyme in the Time of COVID
Earlier this week I was playing a board game with my husband, and suddenly there were paramedics helping me into an ambulance. I've had a lot of fainting and partial seizures because of my POTS syndrome (also called "the fainting disease)" that I developed as a complication from Neuro Lyme. But those are really fast,… Continue reading Had my first Grand Mal Seizure. Whoa… didn’t see that one coming!
When you have a PICC line you have to always wear a protective sleeve over it so the line isn't getting dragged or caught in anything, but you don't have to be stuck with the white gauze-looking sleeve that the hospital will most likely give you. There are some other options out there that can… Continue reading Lyme Survival Guide: 3 types of sleeves to cover your PICC line with, including a fun one! 🙂
A step-by-step guide of my daily IV antibiotics infusion process, to show what it's like using a PICC line for the treatment of Lyme Disease.
The Lyme Life 