Pneumonia, the doctor would have missed it except for this… (and why I view it as a sign of healing)

Denise ElysaChronic Illness & Healing, ME/CFS, Mind-body healing, Nervous System Healing Leave a Comment

I have pneumonia at the moment and I’m acutely aware of how different this experience would have been 10 or so years ago when I first became chronically ill with Lyme and co-infections. The general medical lens of someone with my current complex chronic diseases (ME/CFS, MCAS, POTS etc.,) developing pneumonia, is obviously not great. Patients with these conditions are …

Yesterday I left my wheelchair in the car – on purpose.

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Yesterday we took our youngest to the Aquarium…and I left my wheelchair in the car. Most of healing does not happen overnight, nor in big, sudden, social-media worthy shifts. Have I experienced what most people view as “miracles”? The sudden ability to walk for example, after a period of being unable to walk unassisted? (In my case due to severe …