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Thankful Thursday #1 – My First Thankful Thursday

I’ve wanted to start something that would force encourage me to write weekly, even if it’s just one or two sentences. My original goal when starting this blog was to write at least one thing a week, and that hasn’t been happening for various reasons! I’ve decided having a weekly “theme” would help me write at least once a week, and I wanted it to something positive. I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks, and I came with the name “Thankful Thursday.” Original huh? 🙂

Each Thursday I will post “some thing” and/or many “things” I’m thankful for. It could be an actual “thing”, or “something” that happened to me during the week, that day, in the past, or that instant! So here’s goes my first ever Thankful Thursday post!

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I Want Off The Lyme “Roller Coaster,” Please!

Stronger, by Mandisa; that’s the first song that played on my Songza station as I sat down to write this post. I don’t think it’s a coincidence either. It was God reminding me that with Him I am stronger than Lyme disease and Babesia!

One thing I promised myself when I started this blog is that I would “keep it real”. As much as I’d love to have anyone reading this believe my life is always fun with beekeeping, homesteading, etc., that unfortunately is not reality. A huge part of time and energy is spent trying to get Lyme disease and Babesia into permanent remission. Continue reading →


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My Six Month Lyme “Roller Coaster”

Last September, after a year and half of ups and downs, I’d slowly reduced my Lyme treatment to all but one herbal Lyme tincture, and was feeling awesome! I was grateful that I would soon be able to close the book on this chapter of my life and move on to better things, like starting our family! Unfortunately, my celebration was premature.

The first indicators of my relapse happened during a trip to celebrate my wedding anniversary at Disneyland last October; and by November, many of my symptoms had returned. Although they weren’t as severe as they had been prior to my diagnosis, I couldn’t ignore the fact that I was no longer feeling “awesome”.  Continue reading →