Category: lyme diary

  • Clammy Lydia

    5. Day Seven It slipped my mind to tell you about the results of my blood test on Day Three, didn’t it? I probably needed time to digest it myself. Actually, I can hardly believe I walked out of there without getting them to make a copy that I could take home with me and…

  • Steamed Pudding

    4. Day Five Yesterday I tried out the sauna therapy. Well, to be exact, I went with a friend to a hamam in Kreuzberg where they also have a sauna. For those of you who are not “Lyme literate” (you are in good company with 99% of the universe), you can also detoxify through your…

  • A Pain in the Neck

    3. Day Four This is not like your run of the mill diary. I’m not going to just write down what I did today. That would be worse than Twitter. This is a therapeutic diary. Xanthe hanging out her bacterially dirtied emotional washing. Not even Ariel can get it clean – we need some really…

  • The Empathy Deficit

    Day Two Think positive. Heal yourself. “Today is the beginning of my new life”. Shot of butterfly being released from open hands. “Today my faith is restored”. Picture of beautiful sunset. I had to turn the music off, I couldn’t stand it. Now, I do know – because I watched her other videos on YouTube…

  • Tick tock – She cut off their tails with a carving knife

    Day One They say – though I have no idea who they are – that every story is supposed to have a beginning, a middle and an end. This story starts today and I don’t know where today is. Could be in the middle, because the beginning took place about nine years ago. Maybe. Or…