Hopeful

I’m trying to pack for my trip to the clinic, oscillating between hope and downright despair. I have tried so many things to get rid of this disease. The pict line for a year has been the most dramatic. I felt so good for a year afterwards, just to be plunged back into the Lyme world once again. This Dr’s approach is very different than anything I’ve experienced. The thing that’s hard to explain to people is this: I’ve been cured of LYME for a long time. Doxycycline takes care of that. BUT what most people don’t know is that Lyme is just a minor part of a tick bite. I also have had malaria twice, I have babeseosis, I have bartonella, and I’m getting ready to find out how many other diseases. This Dr says it should be called tick borne diseases. This clinic specializes in cancer, but the English born Dr, who lives in Germany got interested in Lyme because Germany has more Lyme disease per capita than anywhere in the world. Now he’s the leading expert. He cured Kelly Osborne. I’m hopeful.

i got a message about three weeks ago from a friend in Memphis. Her friend’s daughter had just died from a tick borne disease. She was sixteen. They will actually hook me up to a diagnostic machine at this clinic to see what internal organs have been damaged. That’s really frightening.

And I’ve never said anything about this but I’ve had Lyme disease for ten years. My supporters have been my husband, my son, my daughter in law, and my friends, my dear friends. Norma, of course, has had her own very sad journey. But as far as my brothers go, I’ve not received ONE phone call….in TEN years! To say that is hurtful is an understatement. But, as my niece, Kate says, C’est la vie. So thank all of you who have been through this long, painful, journey with me.

I have been reading blogs of people who have been to this clinic and it has helped me prepare for what is coming. If my blog helps even one other person, so much the better.

See y’all in California!!