Lyme Brain and a Warrant out for my Arrest!

 I had a bit of a surprise yesterday that I wanted to share...
My hubby came home mid-afternoon which is not like him. It was a nice surprise for me. I was all smiles and talking to him as he was writing a check out. I ask him what he's doing and if he's going back to work or if he's done for the day. He responds by telling me that I have a........ are you ready for this..........Warrant out for MY arrest!!! What?! My hubby doesn't kid about stuff like this so I knew he was serious. Immediately it crosses my mind that I could very well be booked and charged and put in jail! I can just see the headlines! Yeah. A little melodrama in my head. We'll blame it on Lyme since Lyme can take so much credit for this story as you will soon find out. 

There's a back story to this I need to share so you all understand how this happened. Around a month ago I was headed home from a meeting at around 10:30. My hubby was in the back seat sleeping since he needed to get up at midnight thirty. Ugh. Poor guy. Well, my brain had been doing weird things to me, brain fog, memory problems, brain blanks... What are those you might ask? Brain blanks are where you just blank out. You're not aware of time lost or what happened during that time. Sound scary? It is. I didn't realize it at the time that I had been having those because they were for such short short periods of time. This brain blank happened and when I came out of it I saw staring me straight in the face a yellow traffic light! Argh! I had NO idea how long it had been yellow for. I had no time to stop so I pressed on the accelerator and hot rodded my way through the now red light. There was no cars around except for a single solitary car on the side of the road. Phew! I was grateful I had put nobody in danger. I look behind me and realize the single solitary car had pulled out... Oh dear! Yep! The lovely awesome not so patriotic red and blue lights start flashing!  I pull over and the officer comes up to the side as I'm frantically trying to find all of the required identification and stuff they need to fulfill their sadistic power hungry... OK. OK. I know I'm going over the edge here but just wait. He comes up and I try to explain that a tissue box was caught under my foot and I was removing it and had looked down. Yeah. He wasn't buying it either. Ha ha! What was I going to say?! The truth? Are you kidding me? He was extremely rude and gruff with me in his macho "I'm going to give you a ticket you blond bimbo" kind of way. I do have to give him a little credit however because when he returned with my info and ticket in hand he was a bit nicer. I told him I normally wasn't so "stupid". He seemed to agree with me. I figured it was because he had seen my stellar clean driving record.  He tells me I have 2 weeks to pay the ticket or go to court and to call some number and blah blah blah... That's all I remembered. Lyme brain! Remember?

Let's fast forward here. Two days after the red light incident I started seizuring BIG TIME. It was 10 days before seeing my Doc in Mexico and all I could do was try to get my seizing under control and tie up loose ends, pack, get girls camp organized, etc... I literally didn't think another thing about "THE TICKET" until yesterday. It's all I can think about now. I keep having these images of them checking my orifices, taking my mug shot, pressing my fingers into black ink, and then the metal bars and the sound of them closing. I feel so violated in my head.

On the bright side it's a hilarious story my kids are proud to tell their friends. I raised 'em right didn't I? And my hubby got the money off in the mail yesterday so as long as I stay out of Vernal, Utah for the next two days I should be fine. That's a relief. Side note: My ticket was 170 big smackaroos!!! So lesson to be learned here? "Don't run red lights even if it means stopping in the middle of the intersection! Because that's somehow safer then getting out of the intersection quicker." Thanks Big Macho Cop! Lesson learned. Glad to have such bright quick thinking individuals keeping us safe.
 

Have a Lyme free night! 

Diagnosis!

Diagnosis!!!

On the fateful life changing day of  October 4th, 2014 I received the news that I had Lyme Disease. This news rocked my world. I literally felt my support shake underneath me for the next few days as I tried to absorb this information. I knew that the holistic Doc that diagnosed me with this was right but it was a LOT for my brain and soul to absorb. 

I have a dear friend that has suffered from chronic Lyme for years and knowing what she has experienced I felt that I wasn't strong enough to deal with it. Little did I realize I already had been dealing with it myself in many different ways for years. If it wasn't for my relationship with my Heavenly Father and my brother Jesus Christ I have NO idea how I would've made it through those first few days of shock. I used prayer to uphold me and stabilize my shaky shaky foundation so I could keep functioning.

 I was advised by my holistic Doc to make an appointment with the renowned great doctor... Dr. Calzada as soon as I left. It took me another 24 hours to follow that advice. It seems I needed time to absorb what this meant for me. 

I made the phone call and was told March 16th, 2015 was their next available date! WHAT!?!? You have GOT to be kidding me! 5 1/2 months to wait??? At the time this felt like being pregnant... I felt like it would NEVER get here. I was SO ready to start my journey back to health and to have to wait almost half a year was just too long. I realized the depressed state my thinking was putting me in and changed my attitude. I used prayer to help me and received inspiration that this was the right timing for me and my body. I was not to worry. Phew! 

During the next 5 months my symptoms steadily increased. Within 2 weeks of finding out I had to stop exercising. Peeps I am passionate about healthy living and exercising is an integral part of that for me. I have exercised faithfully for 17 1/2 years with no longer then a 4-6 week break for surgeries or having a baby. I was a fitness instructor at my local gym for 12 years and am passionate about helping women increase their love for themselves and used my teaching to try to do this. I also taught nutrition and helped women (and men) lose weight for a brief time at the gym. I ran 5k's, a 1/2 marathon, and a full marathon before and ankle injury that wouldn't heal put me out of commission for running long distances. I still have problems with my ankle to this day. 

In January I started feeling "weird" in my legs. I had an unexplainable weakness that made wearing high heels impossible and climbing stairs really tough. I figured it was the Lyme taking residence in my quads. One day I fell down the two stairs going down into my garage. I was able to catch myself on some shelving saving me from whatever. On another day I ended up coming down my long ol' flight of stairs and feeling the weak "weird" feeling in my legs I grabbed the hand rail so that I could catch myself if my weak legs gave out on me. I made it down the stairs that seemed to go on forever. Phew! I walked through my front room and the feeling steadily increased. I made it to my kitchen and.... FELL! My legs felt just like after I ran my marathon and they turned to jello. If you've ever ran a marathon you may know what I'm talking about. Well there I was sitting on my butt with my feelings hurt. I was fine but my feel bads weren't feeling good. I didn't know quite what to do so I turned to prayer which seemed to be what I did a lot of these days. I got an impression that I needed to give myself time to rest so just to stay there for awhile. Hmm... On the kitchen floor?! I thought. Yep! So I scooted my hinney up to the cupboard and sat. I checked in after forever with God to see if it was ok to get up and move. I got the answer I was looking for! Well, kinda. I was to grab my water, my phone, and whatever else I thought I might need, use the bathroom and go rest in the family room with the lights out. Weird. But OK! So that's what I did. I waited 2 1/2 hours before I got the OK to get up. I was totally fine after that. 

During the 5 1/2 month wait I experienced depression, extreme fatigue, insomnia, aches and pains in my joints, new injuries (even though I was doing nothing, not even mopping my floor), brain fog, memory problems, vision disturbances, constant headaches that would frequently turn into migraines, ear ache, blood sugar issues, unexplained weight loss and gains, sensitivity to cold and change in temperatures, sensitivity to water (extreme itching after showers), major hair loss, thing brittle nails, acne, hypothyroidism, muscle twitches, heart palpitations, air huger, food allergies, IBS, Hashimoto's and asthma.