Category Archives: growing stronger

All The Things Left Unsaid…

Posted on February 9, 2021 by lymestorm

This post will be different from the others I have written. It’s not just an update this time. It’s also a reflection and in a way, an apology. It’s been 2 years and almost 2 weeks since I arrived home … Continue reading →

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Returning to Life

Posted on October 13, 2019 by lymestorm

I took a lot of time off from writing (too much time.)  At first it wasn’t really intentional.  Life was happening and it was chaotic and busy and I wasn’t checking in. I was more focused on living my life … Continue reading →

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Road to Recovery

Posted on February 20, 2019 by lymestorm

It has been exactly 4 weeks today since I left the place that changed my life; 4 weeks ago I walked out of Klinik St. Georg in Bad Aibling, Germany, a person with a new hope for life and healthier … Continue reading →

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Sweating It Out

Posted on July 21, 2017 by lymestorm

Its a sweltering hot day.  Its a dosing day.  And I had to leave the house for a prescheduled oil change on my car.  I’m sitting in the waiting area and still sweating.  Summer months tend to be the hardest … Continue reading →

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Where I Am Now

Posted on December 13, 2016 by lymestorm

Its just under one month shy of when my world completely changed. January 2014 was a time I will never forget.  I had gotten the flu, my great aunt was in the hospital dying, I was still misdiagnosed with multiple … Continue reading →

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Phoenix Rising

Posted on May 4, 2016 by lymestorm

The last several months I haven’t been myself.  Too tired, too depressed, too suicidal to do anything. My days were taken minute by minute in a battle to survive the damage that my brain and body have endured. I found … Continue reading →

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What Is Wrong With Me?

Posted on October 25, 2015 by lymestorm

What is wrong with me? That’s a question I get from just about everyone and one that I ask myself maybe too often.  I know my diseases.  I know them well.  After all, we’ve spent half of my life together … Continue reading →

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Unconventional Road to Health

Posted on September 29, 2015 by lymestorm

I am intense.  I always have been.  I can be laid back but always in an intense kind of way.  After all I am a Virgo.  There are certain traits about myself that I just love and this happens to … Continue reading →

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Dreams Come True – Halestorm

Posted on September 27, 2015 by lymestorm

I have 3 major dreams in life right now…to meet be in remission, to be a wife/mother and to meet the band Halestorm. (Of course I still wish and pray for a cure, but since Lyme is not even accepted … Continue reading →

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Birthdays, Dosing, Healing & Psychic Abilities

Posted on September 6, 2015 by lymestorm

In a couple of weeks, I’ll be a year older…I’ll start my personal new year.  Just as many people do during the coming of the “official” new year, every year (usually starts about a month before my actual birthday) I … Continue reading →

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