Life and Lyme

Muddling Through Life with Lyme Disease

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  • ogled

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    I went to Victoria\’s Secret with my daughter Katie last week. She just turned thirty. I am fifty-eight.  If you are the mother of a daughter, there comes a day of reckoning, a watershed moment that is not always welcomed. The day men\’s eyes slide right past you and land squarely on your daughter. I…

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  • deflate

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    My favorite! I didn\’t think anyone noticed this particularly delightful symptom, but they do. It\’s when you feel pretty good—you\’re shopping for furniture or at a concert at Red Rocks, or just playing pickleball when WHAM! Deflate. I\’ve been thinking about exactly what happens, and how perceptive people can notice so quickly. I\’m a fairly…

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  • circles

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    This weekend is my fortieth high school reunion. I am going. There is something about Texas that keeps me coming back, but I\’m not a Texan. I\’m what I like to call an \’accidental Texan\’. My parents aren\’t Texans, they are from Kansas, dropped into Texas because my dad was a geologist. I was born…

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  • relentless optimist

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    It\’s high time I started writing about my life and Lyme disease. There\’s more to life than Lyme, and there\’s more to Lyme than most people know. My experiences are depressingly familiar to anyone who has been misdiagnosed, and then diagnosed with Lyme disease. I\’ve lost nearly a year to Lyme, a long slog in…

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