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 …
6 Years Ago I Celebrated Remission, Then I Crashed.
6 years ago yesterday – July 1, 2019, I gathered with friends and family to celebrate the end of my Lyme treatment (4-5 years of it at that point) and the beginning of what we thought was remission. 6 months later my life changed drastically in many ways and I experienced a series of overlapping events (about 3.5 years of …
