Growing Deeper Roots: My Story of Invisible Illness

One of the biggest slogans floating around about Lyme disease both in sponsored awareness campaigns and in patient testimony is "Lyme doesn't discriminate."  We can see this in the demographics of the spread of Lyme disease. When talking about Lyme, people focus on the Northeast regions of America, where Lyme was first discovered. People worry about kids, who spend a lot of time playing outside. They often warn people who live in areas with a lot of woods. But the truth is, when we really look at the demographics of Lyme disease we see that as it becomes a more and more prevalent epidemic, it really truly doesn't discriminate.  While we see a higher prevalence of Lyme in North America, Lyme has been reported on every continent except Antarctica.  We are seeing the Lyme epidemic arise all over Europe and Asia with increasing speed and concern. Clinics and specialities focusing on Lyme disease and tick borne diseases are popping up in Germany and Australia a...

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 ...