A wonderful update

Thank you so much to everyone who has been praying for me. Lyme kicked me down so very hard. But with your prayers, and these antibiotics, I am doing much better right now and just had an enjoyable weekend. So here is an update for anyone following:

The antibiotics took about 3 days to start working, and then gradual improvement, but by this past Saturday after taking the antibiotics for about 8 days, I started feeling not only back to "my normal" but even slightly better!

In regards to the lyme only, I'm still somewhat stiff in my neck, shoulders and back and the pain still comes and goes but isn't nearly as intense. My temperature is still off but minus the chills, so that's pretty much back to "normal." Fatigue has extremely improved! So much to the point that I'm slightly shocked at what I was able to do these past few days.

Over the weekend, I not only went to a wedding but I wore heels- HEELS! And I danced! Anyone healthy will be like huh? Anyone with chronic illness will be like WHOA! Because yes, whoa it is. That's huge for me. And then the next couple days I was able to play bocci ball, basketball and hit golf balls. Whoa again. Now there was a lot of rest in there: bocci ball needed an intermission just to get through one game, basketball consisted of shooting maybe 5 shots and I only hit about 5 golf balls all of which were the little plastic ones to practice with. But regardless, I did it and that's more than I can normally do.

Today I'm feeling the effects of it and I'm resting. Also today I had to take the 2nd medication, which I have to take once a week. That is making my MG and POTS flare, as it did last week also. But I am so very thankful for this past weekend, so very thankful for the antibiotics and so very thankful for your prayers.

I'm against medication in general, but sometimes it is warranted. This was one of those cases and fortunately, I believe only because of prayer, I did not have any side effects from this one. Friday I will be seeing an LLMD- doctors who specialize in lyme treatment. He will most likely test for any co-infections of tick born illnesses and let me know if I'm on the right treatment plan. I'm doing this so we don't risk this lyme case turning chronic if it hasn't already. So if you will please pray about that I would appreciate it.

Ever since I first got sick in 2010, I've just wanted to be healthy again. But things like this lyme disease make me realize it can always get worse, which also opens my eyes to how much I truly am blessed with. With the decline due to lyme, I also experienced the feeling of improvement that came with it when the antibiotics kicked in. That was a great feeling. To feel you are getting through it. And each and every day we all are- maybe it's your health, maybe it's your job, maybe it's a family/marriage situation, maybe it's just life in general. But without the lows how would you be able to experience the highs? That's why we can't focus on the situation but the only One who can and will get us through it.

Praising God again for the good times and the bad. Praising God for taking my health situation and turning it into something greater. Praising God for the "simple" things in like like this blog which allows me to turn a passion into a purpose. Thanks for reading. God bless.