Stuff Done

[cjsmith]

Lyme results sent to my local GP.
Lyme results sent to New York doctor.
Consent-to-treatment form sent to diagnosing doctor.
Minor Web research done; reply on this subject e-mailed to my family.
Appointment set up with diagnosing doctor for day after tomorrow.

I feel like a poser saying this has any emotional impact, because basically, for a 17-year Lyme patient (if indeed that's truly what I am), I'm incredibly healthy. Still, it kinda does.

Think I should do some work related to my job now?

Comments

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're a poser because if Lyme has been a big reason why your feet have caused you pain, then I would think it HAS had an impact on you emotionally. Heck, just trying to track down the cause of physical problems comes with a certain amount of stress and frustration.

I am glad you are incredibly healthy, all told, if you have had Lyme for 17 years. I'm tickled for you. The thing that is so insidious about the whole thing is you can't be sure when it started, because the spirochetes can go into a dormant phase and not cause any problems at all for ages (see syphilis -- it is genetically less complex, but behaves similarly).

It's a weird bug, and it behaves differently in different people. You may be one of the luckier ones if your symptoms are only somewhat annoying on a sporadic basis. YMMV.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely, I'm not putting myself down for the foot thing... just for being all "Hey LOOK I have LYME and that's a BIG EFFING DEAL" when really for me (except for the feet, connection as yet shaky and unsupported) it hasn't been. Yet the name alone still feels big. I don't know if that's making much sense.

Of course I can't be sure when it started, but I do know when I was and when I was not running around in Lyme-tick-infested woods and pulling multiple ticks per day out of my skin. :-) The Army isn't about to give me any medical benefits on the strength of that, but the circumstantial evidence does kind of lean toward one time frame. It's the best guess I've got.