Lyme Disease: If I were a building.

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I think I've mentioned before that I have Lyme Disease, and that it causes swelling around my joints, particularly in my back. In the last 6 hours, my back went from being just fine - I could feel my spine all the way up and down - to being completely swollen. I could feel it change, and I felt like crying. I've been using ice packs for hours trying to bring the swelling down. This is putting a cramp in my schoolwork/school/work/life.

I feel like an old building breaking down. From the moment of birth, our bodies begin to decay. I'll be 24 next month - almost two years of Lyme Disease.

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lyme is an ignored wordit's not worrying, to the doctors;
that grinding of your thumb into your hand
like a nervous tick, the shifting
from foot to less swollen foot. fear burning
like the hot steering wheel massaging your palm
bringing pain to relieve pain; temporary
scars on the lifeline, swollen:
back, hands, feet, knees. brain
bugs crawling in imaginary directions
aching to get out
stretch
move, dance
like you feel human. a small thing,
parasite, darkness, just
a day on skin still twenty-three,
even if twenty-three is a struggle like eighty.
Abandoned HouseWarped old bones, bowed knees curve
to age, nature's way of breaking down
everything that's been built up;
arthritic old body, aching with the
cold and sleepy with the heat – still here.
Gray and bleary-eyed, windows
battered by storm, mind collecting dust
and tidbits of all of the lives lived here.
An extra creak from the roof as it sags
with its own weight, like a man who's seen
too much of the wrong thing. Timeless,
not like a classic car or an old movie, but china
cabinet trinkets played with by grandchildren
who never really forget. Every year, something
new: shutters, tile, wallpaper over
wallpaper, garage on the side. Now, only
the attic is full, packed with boxes and cobwebs,
the rest of the rooms left to echoes
of all the stories heard.



Corona Lyme stamp by zephyrchaser   the silent epidemic stamp by opioid  




I hope you've enjoyed the features! I love all of these wonderful artists! :heart:
Yes, I do realize I began and ended this feature with my own art, but I made this feature to try to make myself feel better, and it kind of worked (emotionally, not physically). :D So I just hope to share the love.

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Lyme-themed Blog Entry (an overview): eclecticlikefurniture.blogspot…
2nd Lyme-themed Feature (Hands): fav.me/d5dx9al
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Pinedrop's avatar
First, I'd like to thank you for faving my bison photo! :-) Second, I happened to see your journal entry and was horrified that someone so young has to deal with lyme disease. I hesitate to give unasked-for-advice, but I don't imagine you'll run across this product on your own. It's called BioSuperfood (or BioPrep) and though it's expensive it has done amazing things for me. I was pretty sure I'd read about it in relation to lyme disease and I just found it on the "Optimum Choices" website. You can get there by googling "BioSuperfood and lyme disease". (Sorry, I don't know how to create a link.) Anyway, everyone has to deal with disease in their own way and you may very well not be interested in this. I just felt like you should at least know about it. And from the bottom of my heart I wish you good luck, happiness, and eventual health!!!