On the 16th March I set off on a big bird (plane) for my next course of intensive medical treatment over in California to help my ongoing fight against Chronic Lyme Disease. I had no idea just two months earlier that I would need to return to the specialist clinic, nor that I had to…
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2015 Continues…
February and March continued to be both challenging months: Symptom central and yet more doctors appointments. It also saw the start of my new fundraising campaign for this on-going and madly expensive medical treatment. March brought around my first A&E trip of 2015… I had huge reservations about going, as from previous experiences I know…
2015 begins and the drama continues…
January has been a complete whirlwind; an unpredictable, rapid and destructive 4 weeks! It has been a challenge and not quite the positive start to a new year that I had hoped. For now, I have given up on the of idea of being able to predict how I will feel in the future, when…
The last chapter of 2014
December seemed to completely fly by. Maybe it was all the distraction from the festive movies on the box and decorating the tree! I have always been a huge Christmas fan, maybe I was an elf in my past life who knows?! In an ideal world I would have been joining in with all the fun…
On high-alert and feeling toxic! September – November 2014
In my last blog post, I left you with an update as far as August. Things were going fairly well and I was definitely feeling and seeing progress across my body, brain and general well being. This was obviously too good to be true and before I knew it, Wham! I seemed to hit another…
July – August 2014
I begin with looking back to the summer months this year as my treatment continued. I was put on a number of different antibiotics as my infection load was still very high and I was still battling Lyme and co-infections. This included Doxycycline, Septra, Malarone, Tinidazole and Valtrex. Although antibiotics were key, the herbals have…
Update coming soon…
Hi everyone… I am so super sorry for the absence of blog posts over the last 4 months… I will be uploading updates on my progress real soon. Its been a rocky road, so one things for sure I have a lot to update you on. I am still fighting hard every single day to…
“You look well”… Life with an invisible illness
96% of Chronic Illness is invisible… But just because a persons illness is invisible it doesn’t mean they are. It reminds me of a well known saying ‘never judge a book by its cover’. Looks can be deceiving, and this quote is so fitting when it comes to life with Lyme. Don’t get me wrong,…
The £20,000 Tick Bite… and the rest!
Being totally obsessed with organisation and wanting to keep tabs on all my medical expenses, I have kept every bill and receipt since this medical nightmare has began. In a tidy little spreadsheet I have a log of where every penny has gone, and in addition I have gained a huge realisation of how costly…
Treatment continues…
I have been on the hunt for some magic medicine that I can get in the UK! I realised that I needed to try and continue the supportive nutritional IV’s as my whole body is under so much physical stress due to the high infection load that I still have. I have purposefully waited to…
Chantelle Fights Lyme 