Uhm, I have Lyme Disease. Yes. Lyme Disease. Not just from one tick bite, but two. Yes. Two bites. One old, one as fresh as 3 months. Wow. In all my wildest thoughts, I would never have imagined Lyme Disease. When the MRI showed nonspecific white matter disease, everything possible went through my head. I accepted all possibilities. I even accepted that if my ticket was up, it was just up. Mentally, I prepared for the worse. However, not one time while researching white matter disease, did Lyme Disease come up in searches.
Good news. It's curable. Annoyingly though, is that there are two bites causing the pain. The old one, I believe is from Summer of 1999 while living in Gallatin County. The fresh one? Well, I just did move from the country here in Carroll County - back to town. I loved that country home. But I'm speaking from experience when I say that we sure can't have everything we love.
Treatment? I am on three weeks of antibiotic. After which, if the disease is not gone, I will undergo three weeks of IV antibiotic. Either way, it's curable.
I have laughed and cried for what seems like 24 - 48 hours over one thing or another.
LIFE 101
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