Lyme Disease...take SEVEN
To shorten the story a tad, I spent weeks just barely being able to walk as the spirochetes had control of the circuit board to my legs. OK. I will admit I got a few different kinds of SCARED there for awile, but I hit it with everything I knew how to do. I went to a real MD for blood tests and got a nice juicy 2.25 on the Lyme titre (which is relatively meaningless since I've had it so many times...) but it got a prescrip for Doxycycline into my hands. I took that, I took the Grapefruit Seed Extract AND I put myself on the entire Herbal Lyme Therapy that had been passed on to me by another herbalist who devised it to get her own daughter out of a wheelchair. I DID need to tap into that when my legs weren't working. I wasn't in a wheelchair - YET.
My recovery, though it took from July 10th to mid August was nothing short of miraculous. Every day SOMEone at Glynwood sees me bopping around in the gardens and comments about how far I've come from those days when I couldn't stay upright for two hours without shaking all over and hanging onto walls. I don't think I'll ever take working legs for granted again.
What was so interesting was that the worst of the heat and drought corresponded with the worst of my illness. It was a strange kind of blessing to be too sick to even go out when going out would only have showed me SO many of my beloved plants just dying from the heat and dryness. I bless my entire garden staff (3 part timers) for keeping things alive until the rains came.
Yes, some of the plants gave up and left. Some are just holding on. But most of them are a most GRATEFUL shade of luscious green again and I know JUST how they feel.
Am I afraid to go back out in the jungle? Not really, no. I use the Rose Geranium Tick Repellant whenEVER I go in the woods, and certainly if I go into a tall WET meadow, but tall grasses baking in the sun (see my bio pic) especially INSIDE the fence, are not places where ticks are apt to hang out because they dehydrate really quickly. They tend to stay in the shade and moisture.
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