Waiting on the Other Shoe to Drop However you want to call it, we all experience this fear sometimes daily and it can choke the life out of you. You know what it is: the fear of regression. You see a symptom or feel a symptom and before […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
Its a dead giveaway that I am a parent when I have a thorough knowledge of Veggie Tales, Ninjago, and all things Disney Princess. I can actually beat the kids at Disney trivia and can sing all the theme songs at top volume. If you are not a Veggie Tales […]
Could you buy a zoo?
During the deepest part of my valley, I know I looked sick – down to below 85 lbs my “bones were definitely on display”. But trying to describe to someone else how you feel and why you are so sick can be discouraging. I know Lymies who look “perfectly normal” […]
Broken Bones
The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. (Psalm 18:4-5) Anyone who has spent any amount of time at all in the Valley of the Shadow of Lyme disease, knows exactly what the Cords of […]
An Innocent Fly
My Kids are Amazing Of course every mother thinks her children are amazing, from their giggles to their snuggles on a typical kid day my kids are amazing. But because they are kids with chronic Lyme disease that they have had since birth – my kids are doubly AMAZING! They […]
My Kids are AMAZING!
With the pregnancy of my first child, I daydreamed and planned all the wonderful things that would be in store for me in motherhood. I imagined playdates, and field trips, and tickle fights and fixing owies. As a soon to be mother, all of have our head in the clouds […]
The Panic Cloud
Dear Doctor, On this fair Friday, I find myself overflowing with thankfulness for you. Do you have any idea how rare you are? Do you know that most doctors I met on my chronic Lyme journey just wanted to medicate my emotions and igore my health? I’ll bet they didn’t […]
Happy Friday Good Doctor(s) …
My kids adore all types of singing movies and the classics are still some of their favorites. As I was thinking on all the benefits and progress we made in 2013, this song popped into my head. Its from the benefit of the doctors and suppliers of natural methods and […]
These are a few of my favorite things…..
I was picking up some homeopathic remedy refills at the doctor’s office yesterday who I have known for nearly 10 years now. She shared an office with the kinesiologist I used for years and helped me when I was extremely ill from Lyme. As we exchanged product and payment, the […]
Rear View Mirror
When calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. (Proverbs 1:27) Being from the midwest and living in tornado alley for the better part of my adult life, I can account for the feeling of a literal storm overtaking me. The darkness […]