So how does one live with a very real living organism that loves to do damage to your body? It's invisible, we cannot see it. There's usually no external signs that make it obvious.
Oh sure sometimes it shows itself in rashes or itchy red blotches, but most of my outward evidences with Lyme have been my tired eyes, the dark circles from lack of sleep, the hunched over way I walk in the early morning.
Just here at home people can see it, but once I am out in public, I put make up on to cover the dark circles and tired eyes, I walk upright and slowly.
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| My red blotch...still here and its been a month. |
However, everyday there are little glimpses of Lyme...
- Grabbing my knee as it shoots pains while I walk upstairs..
- Rubbing the inflamed elbow as it throbs with pains
- Blinking to try to help my blurry vision
- Struggling to find the words to finish my sentence
- Rubbing on oils to relieve headaches
- Dizzy, dizzy, dizzy
- Too weak to pull the laundry out of the washer
- Numb hands and fingers (this is one symptom that has completely cleared up since treatment!)
- Brain fog (a very weird sensation that is hard to explain but your brain area literally feels whooshy and you react very slow)
- Sore heels
- Sinuses acting up
- Ringing in my ears
- Sound sensitivity
- Fatigue
- Neck pain
- Migrating pains, today my elbow, tomorrow my knee, oh it's in my head today, wait it's in my wrist now...rolling rolling rolling, keep them buggies rolling....
Now many will say, "but these could be anything".
True..those symptoms can be other things, but my daughter and I have Lyme.
And these are some (not all) of the everyday glimpses of Lyme in our life.
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| Kayla battling severe neck pain from her Lyme |
Psalm 40:16-17
"But may all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
may those who love Your salvation say continually, "Great is the Lord!"
As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me.
You are my help and my Deliverer; do not delay, O my God!"
