"L" is for Love, Lyme and ........ Liver (heavy heavy sigh)
When I started blogging about Heather's Lyme disease journey, I had no idea how many different paths she would encounter. In March 2016 if you had asked me to predict Heather's medical situation for 2017, I would have said she would be in Lyme treatment. Never in a million years did I think the focus would switch from Lyme disease to liver disease. Heather and I wanted to be honest about her journey, but the more testing that is conducted, the more they discover, which leads to more tests and of course more problems. The last few months have been a challenge. We have shed a lot of tears. I know, I am talking in circles. As I have said, we know that Heather's immune system has been compromised since childhood. We know that she has a fatty and damaged liver, and elevated liver enzymes that don't seem to be getting any better despite life style changes and medicine adjustments. Heather is now a patient with the Medstar Georgetown Hospital Liver...