Tearfully

Today was a very emotional day. We were so glad it was over but it was almost like we didn’t want to leave each other. We’ve been through so much together and we were so glad to be around others that had gone through the same hell. We had all been to doctor after doctor. We had all been diagnosed with wrong things. We’d all been told we were crazy and hypochondriacs. We all were finally diagnosed correctly and relieved, just to find out there was no cure. We all faced the fact that this was going to be our lives. We all found Dr. Philip Battiade. And we all walked into that clinic with a glimmer of hope on our faces and little by little became a family. I was the oldest in the bunch so I gathered all my little chickens under my wing, with H’s help, and we powered through. When I cried the day I got stuck twenty eight times, they all cried with me. All of these”kids” were under thirty. Some had gotten this disease at birth! And there are two things I can’t get out of my mind: how many people are walking around with this disease and haven’t been diagnosed and how many people know they have Lyme and can’t afford Dr Battiade? Something has GOT to change!!!

This is my family and I pray we all get well! We WILL stay in touch!

And our great nurse, Hollis!

P. S. Wouldn’t you know while I was getting my stem cells, Sylvester Stallone came to visit.

But I’d rather have my stem cells.

Deleon, our masseuse extraordinaire, whose folks are from Greenville, MS!