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As I trimmed shrubs on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon on April 11th 1993, little did I know that what was about to happen would change my life forever. I was newly divorced and getting my house ready to put on the market. The shrubs by the mail box in front of the house needed trimming to improve the "curb appeal". Wearing shorts and wielding large pruning shears, I chopped away until I was pleased with the results. Now it was time to start getting ready for the garage sale!

As I gathered items to sell, I noticed a slight rash on my left thigh but didn't think too much about it.The next morning I applied poison oak cream thinking I may have brushed up against a poison oak bush. The rash remained and by the next day, Thursday, the joints in my wrists were starting to ache. By Saturday I was running a temperature and felt like I had the flu.After nearly a week with "the flu" I called the Dr. and was told to come in the following week if I wasn't feeling better. In the meantime, I decided to do some research on my own as I was starting to wonder if the rash and the flu symptoms were somehow connected. In "those days" the internet was not yet a commonly used tool for research, so I called a medical research company and for $30 ordered a hot topic file on infectious diseases. I spent the weekend pouring over the information and by Monday morning I suspected that I may have lyme disease.

The Dr. agreed to run a blood test for lyme and as a precautionary measure put me on three weeks of antibiotics. The blood tests came back inconclusive and as I was now feeling better after finishing a course of antibiotics, I moved forward with selling my house, the rash and symptoms just a blip on the screen of life.

Fast forward two years............I am now living in my new condo, happily fixing it up and getting used to being single. But my body is not quite right. I am having pain in my left hip area and my energy level is not what it should be. I chalk it up to adjusting to my new life, but as the symptoms worsen, I return to the same Dr. that I saw two years ago. She tests me for various illnesses that can cause fatigue: Epstein barr virus, anemia, fibromyalgia and so on but since none of these seem to be the problem, sends me off saying there is nothing she can do..........

Fast forward seven years.........I have been to at least nine different Doctors and still no diagnosis. My fatigue has worsened and I can no longer exercise. This alone is very disconcerting as I have always done aerobics and tried to keep in shape. I also have a lot of pain and stiffness in my neck. My eyes get tired easily and my vision is blurring. I have brain fog which means it's difficult to think clearly and my ability to remember things is slipping. I am not normally prone to depression but I am feeling disheartened and discouraged. I decide to start a chronic fatigue support group. I make up flyers and distribute them at a health forum meeting. By the end of the evening, two women come up to me and want to be in the group. Within weeks we get together and add a fourth person to our monthly meetings. We share stories and offer support to each other. One of the women receives an email from her brother in New York comparing her symptoms to those of lyme disease and gives her the name of a specialist in San Francisco. She goes and gets diagnosed with lyme disease. She encourages me to see this Dr. also. My Lyme tests come back positive.

Fast forward four years........After being on antibiotics for Lyme Disease for two years my body couldn't handle them anymore. I am feeling a little better, but continue to have debilitating symptoms. I have had to stop working as a Speech Therapist as I can no longer sit without pain for extended periods of time and my ability to plan lessons and work with students has greatly diminished. I turn to alternative medicine and begin working with a naturopatic Dr. I do vitamin therapy, physical therapy, chiropractic, art therapy, journaling, meditation, simple yoga, homeopathy, kineseology and allergy elimination technieque, saunas, massage, and prayer. I go of visit John of God in Brazil for a healing. I am slowly improving.......

Fast forward one year..................I find out about the Rife machine, an electro-medical device. It delivers frequencies to the body and shatters the lyme bacteria in the way that musical tones can shatter glass. A far out concept that actually works and enables me to finally turn the corner with this disease. Little by little I improve. Although my body continues to heal from the effects of having dealt with a debilitating disease for fourteen years, I can now say I'm over lyme disease!

What a life experience this has been, being humbled by an insect no bigger than the size of a pinhead. But its given me the opportunity to learn that I have inner strength, courage and determination that I may have never had the chance to experience. Life has taken on a sweet appreciation and lusciousness that wasn't there before.

It's called the gift of the wound.

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