Life and Lyme

Muddling Through Life with Lyme Disease

Tag: babesia

  • moving

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    Melissa
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    I can always tell when I\’m fighting an infection now. Babesia, a malaria-like protozoan parasite co-infection that hasn\’t been in the picture for over two years (maybe more, I can\’t keep all this shit straight) has returned. It\’s probably due to an overload of stress and activity. I\’m selling my house and down-sizing. I made the…

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  • denial

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    I\’ve never particularly been one for self-denial. Not that kind! Jeez, people. The kind where I don\’t \’allow\’ myself to do things I might enjoy because I\’m chronically ill. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is that over time, I have come to feel guilty for still being sick and have…

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  • vacation

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    I like vacations. I especially like unexpected vacations, like the one I was just on. I say \”unexpected\”, but I mean \”forgot about\”. This happens to me more than you\’d think. To many people, being sick IS vacation. There is the luxury of staying home and taking care of yourself. I don\’t know what this says…

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  • doublechecking

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    I like to google the side effects of the drugs I take. I used to do this several times a day, mainly because I could never remember what they were from hour to hour. I do it a lot less now. A month ago, some not so good symptoms crept back (a whole other google…

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  • acceptance?

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    I fucking hate babesia. Babesia is one of my co-infections, a malaria-like parasite also called a \”piroplasm\”, whatever the fuck that is. It clouds my mind and saps my energy. I get angry and depressed for no reason. My eyes go wonky. All the normal boring crap, too, like fatigue and muscle aches and joint pain. For once,…

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