Have my appt.

I see my doctor on Thursday. I called and talked to the nurse again this morning, and told them about remembering the EM rash, a perfect bull's eye, from a little over three years. I also added that I remember waking and picking something tiny off my neck at the site of the bite. It was a teensy black speck so I thought it was like a itty bitty scab at the bite center. I never thought anything of it, except it had been a spider bite or something. I never knew until recently that ticks could be that small... as small as the period at the end of this sentence. ??? WOW. So, she agreed, what I thought was a micro-sized scab was probably the nasty little culprit who bit me! I'm taking in an enlarged copy of the photo of the EM rash for them to both view & keep in my file. They were concerned, as I am,.. because obviously I am late stage at this point. It explains a lot of what has been going on with me though, whereas they couldn't explain my symptoms before aside from determining that my FMS had gotten much, much worse.

I am thinking I probably got bit in my own back yard. I had a very full, flurishing garden that year. I really haven't been able to deal with having one since then. I tried the following year because I've always had one, but it went to pot b/c I didn't have the strength or energy to keep up with it. I didn't even bother trying to have one last year or this year. I keep hoping "maybe next year".


Anyway,.. three more days til I get in with my GP who has always been very supportive of me. So I'm hoping that is the case with the Lyme, too. And, I'm hoping she will be willing to give me the referral to the LLMD,.. I know that is a real challenge for most so I'm prepared for that hurdle.


Wish me luck!!

(((hugs)))