My treatment plan

There are many ways to treat Lyme disease and its coinfections. Here’s what I’m…

When your health costs you your job

My last day at Box was April 12, 2016. The day came and went quietly. No mass email saying goodbye, no celebration for a new chapter of my life. I had already sent out a few personal goodbye emails four weeks earlier, and I’m sure there were some who only discovered…

So you think you have Lyme disease

A beginner’s guide to understanding what that means and what you should do next

Ever since I wrote my first post about Lyme disease, I’ve been contacted by various readers who have struggled…

Progress Report: October 2018

It’s been over two years since I’ve updated everyone on my progress. There are multiple reasons for that, some of which I’ll try to explain in this post. I’ll just start out by saying that I am better, but not better enough to have much of a life. I basically stay home unless…

Desperately seeking sleep

Lyme Disease is only the latest battle in my personal war with sleep

My relationship with sleep is complicated. Like everyone with Lyme disease, I have a lot of trouble with sleep. However, there hasn’t really…

The cold

One of the strange side effects of those with chronic Lyme disease is that we don’t tend to get a lot of colds. In fact, the last time I can remember having a cold was in 2011, when I visited Brighton, England to speak at the Full Frontal conference. The visit happened to be during November and I remember…

I have Lyme Disease

The true story of what I’ve been living with for over 15 years

As best I can recall, it all started around 15 years ago. I was finishing up my sophomore year at college and had just taken my last final exam. The following…

Progress Report: May 2015

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, and that’s mostly because my health kept getting worse since my last post. I spent nearly all of 2014 dutifully following my doctor’s orders for treating Lyme disease, babesia, and bartonella, and yet by the end of 2014 I was feeling…

The setback

I don’t remember falling. I remember tripping and feeling pain in my foot, and then I remember being on the ground. And there I sat for what seemed like an eternity, my left leg out straight, my right knee pulled to my chest so my right foot could rest directly on the ground. I didn’t know what was wrong…

Progress Report: August 2014

It’s been six months since I started treatment. Here’s how I’m doing.

Back in March, I started my treatment plan for Lyme disease, Bartonella, and Babesia. The plan was to start by treating the Bartonella…