My relationship with sleep is complicated. Like everyone with Lyme disease, I have a lot of trouble with sleep. However, there hasn’t really…
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…
A lot has happened since my last progress report. There have been a lot of ups and downs; moments of thinking I had turned a corner before falling back into days in bed. I think this is perhaps the most frustrating part of the battle against Lyme disease: the nonlinear…
Ever since I wrote my first post about Lyme disease, I’ve been contacted by various readers who have struggled…
I’ve been struggling mightily recently, and haven’t really had the extra energy to update this blog. (I also wanted to wait until I had something interesting to report.) This past week was, for some reason a not-so-bad week. After weeks of binge watching Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime because I…
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…
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…
A long-term illness like Lyme disease is made that much more difficult by the way it affects the healthy people…