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Shelly
@shellyrae37
Yes, I still do have Lyme and may possibly always have it. Well-controlled most of the time but do have flares and Herxheimer reactions. That last is like a healing crisis when there's a large die-off. Not fun. Tick-borne disease is from spirochetes - little snaky looking germs that can change shape, revert inside of cell when danger is present (medication) and lie dormant until it's safe to re-emerge. That's why you hear of people on 'long term antibiotics' or in my case, on herbs for life. So although I get around most of the time, I never know when hips or knees or something will just rage at me. But I'm so much better off than many fellow patients so I try to just adapt. I rarely have neuro or cardiac symptoms anymore. TG!

It's beautiful on Cape Cod today --- about 10 degrees cooler than Boston which we'll be grateful for over the holiday weekend as it's predicted to get into the 80's & humid. Hubby blew his knee out again and is hobbled. So I'm hiring a carpenter to do the completion of the cabinets & install exhaust fan --- to prepare for the dude to come tile the walls and then someone needs to paint ceiling and yada yada yada. So many picky things like put knobs on cabinets, does it ever end? I almost hope the house doesn't sell right away so I get to enjoy it!

DH can't have arthroscopic again on that knee so the deal is to wait until knee replacement is warranted. Doc shot it up with cortisone and he's down from the stiff brace to an elastic sleeve but needs to not bend the thing much for a good while. Meanwhile, he's got severe tendonitis in his wrist so that's braced! Anti-inflammatory for knee will help that, too. Poor guy!

I'm off to Mexico again a week from Sun. Monday at the clinic and back home on the red eye. I still go to Doc who treated my cancer if only once or twice a year. It's a fast trip ----- 37 hour turnaround including 12 hrs in air. ugh. Add to that the drive to and from airport of 2 hrs each way. I dread going thru TSA check now with all the delays. I hate taking my shoes off and walking thru filth of the last million people to walk the same path. All because one moron made a failed attempt at blowing up a plane with his shoe. And I don't breathe well from the time I enter the airport until I leave the destination airport. 10 hours of staleness!! Wouldn't it be awful to work in an airport all day long every day?

It's about 2 weeks til shower for the coming great-grandson! The carriage/car seat combo we bought is sitting in the living room in its box and I'm DYING TO OPEN IT! DH says no - leave it - but I'm thinking we'll open it anyway outside of shower to roll it in to parents so why can't I open it now? DH is afraid I'll dress up the cat and put him in there and go for a walk. HAH! Actually, my favorite task as a young mom was pushing the carriage daily as far as the wee one's nap would allow.

Breakfast time. spinach and jack cheese omelet. Fresh pineapple. And more coffee!
Janice