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Tue, 09 Sep 2008

It's Been a While

I haven't updated this blog for a while, so I thought I would write a short update on how I've been and what I've been up to.

I've had a few ups and downs, but on the whole I've been doing okay. I still have serious anxiety issues, and I still get fatigue and headaches from time to time, but only rarely these days am I restricted to my bed for more than a day or two, at a time. I have been exercising fairly regularly. Although I'm still not able to do a full workout, I'm happy with my progress.

I continue to run The Lyme Enigma and post, albeit minimally, at LymeNet Europe and am slowly working towards some kind of normalcy in my life. I think I'm well on my way.

Posted 14:09

2 comments

Super Site!
Greetings: I was moved by your story and appalled by the denial and misinformation on both sides of the lyme debate. I found your site because I was trying to remind myself of what sort of diseases Ixodes pacifica is known to carry on the West Coast. I thought I remembered it was lyme, but wanted to double check. Google is my friend. Back in the late 90s I had an I. pacifica attempt to attach itself to my shin. It was working at embedding it's mouthparts and had created a circular bruise. I removed the tick and taped it into my day planner (where it resides today, in an archive box) and called the county health people, then took the tick down to show this fellow--who identified it. He told me the CDC basics on the disease. My bruise was a red ring not a pink ring, about a 3/8-inch across not and inch or more, had appeared immediately, and then faded within 24 hours. Since then I've had no symptoms so I feel lucky. I enjoyed your site and your well-reasoned essays. I hope something can be done within the medical community because when they fail to act they create a population of victims for the quacks exploit. I hope you don't mind that I've not posted my e-mail address. Like you, I too hate spam.

Posted by Scott M

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Hmmm. Not a very friendly posting system. I had paragraphs. Truly I did. Let me a try a bit of HTML. New Para I just wanted to add that I really enjoyed your essay "A Different Approach". Also, "A Call to Cluck" is a joke, right? Another Para Take care and God bless.

Posted by Scott M

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