Category: Lyme Disease
How can you help?
If you want to raise awareness, there are a few ways. 🔶 You can always take a bite out of Lyme disease and challenge others. 🔶 Donate money to many Lyme foundations. Trust me every dollar helps. 🔶 Reach out to your local tv channels and share your personal story. […]
Unexpected love
It was a tough day today. I couldn’t lift my head up. I was dozing on and off. I was so weak. My legs were like noodles and hurt. My arms felt lifeless. I was in my bed I should be feeling like this after a full night of sleep. […]
Invisible Depression
Depression doesn’t look what you think it would from the outside. Think of all your bubbly friends, the “fun” friends, they could be suffering from depression. Most of the symptoms are invisible to those surrounding us. Depression is like a glass of water filled to the top. On sunny days […]
Hair – Part 3
As I said before when you can’t control your circumstances you cope by controlling your hair, similar to when people get in the gym to change their body after a divorce (we all know that’s not possible for me). My hair is my canvas and my art represents the amount […]
challenges, Friends, Happiness, Love, Lyme, Lyme Disease, Lyme Disease Awareness
Humbleness through illness
I have Lyme disease. I’m not here to raise awareness on how debilitating Lyme disease is, how little funding there is available for research or how doctors lack the necessary training to understand the complexity of what this illness is. Yes, Lyme disease is a pandemic people are suffering from […]
Hair
Hair. Hair has always been the focal point of my life. Illness made it even more important. People say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See for the chronically ill, that’s even more true. What we see in the mirror matches what we feel in the inside. My […]
Monster inside of me…
There is a monster inside of me. It has taken over every single cell in my body. It has control over how much pain I endure, how mobile I’m, whether I get to be happy or not. Lyme disease is like a psychopath, who is super intelligent. Once it makes […]
My tears are frozen
If you ever got the flu that you couldn’t knock or had a surgery where you were tied to your bed for a long time, you will at least somewhat relate to what I am about to say. Being bedridden, being in a lot of pain, being completely dependent on […]
Marriage, love and celebration when chronically ill
Today marks my 13th year anniversary with my husband. I’ve been completely immobile for almost 2 weeks. On and off the past 2 months. My husband has to carry me every time I need to use the bathroom, he has to feed me, he has to dress me, he has […]
Feminism, Lyme Disease, Racism, Sexism
Intersectionality In Feminism
Black women has it the worst. When a black woman experiences discrimination, it can be due to her gender or race. Black women don’t only fight for gender equality, they fight for their civil rights. I have the utmost respect for black women. They have to fight battles I never […]