One of the cool (I use this word loosely) things about being in the Lyme community is that it is HUGE. Now on one hand this completely sucks because there are 300,000 new Lyme patients every single year and the majority of the political, social and medical world is ignoring us. But on the other hand, this means that even when I'm laying on the couch all day alone at home watching all my friends post summer fun pictures from all over the world, I know that I'm not really alone. I might be confined to my bed during the majority of the summer and my socialization might be limited to interactions with doctors and my caregiving family, but while reading blogs from all over the world (Lyme is worldwide, don't forget) and connecting to other people who are going through this too, I can keep a little bit of my sanity. So I've collected some of my favorite and most relatable quotes from other blogs about Lyme disease and Chronic illness. Here are a few. From Maisie of Lyme ...