Lisa's thoughts about Love, Life, Lyme, and Liver disease

Lets begin with the positive.  I am so thankful to have spent a fabulous summer weekend celebrating Brianne and Eddy's wedding.   This is one of the thousands of pictures that captured the love and laughter. Now back to sharing my feelings - It has been three years since Mom has passed and I can honestly say sometimes it feels like yesterday and other times it seems like forever since I heard her laugh, saw her smile, or reached for the phone to call her. They say that the first year is difficult because you have to experience a whole  year of holidays and events without your loved one.   They say I will find my new "normal."  Will someone tell me how it will ever be normal on my birthday when my Mom doesn't call and sing Happy Birthday to me?  How will it be normal on Mother's Day when I don't have a Mom to spoil? I must admit, that I am healing, but then somedays it's like BAM -the sadness just hits me.  I was walking into a grocery store to ...

a I have been wanting to blog for quite a while now.  As I type this, it has been almost 5 years since Heather was first diagnosed with Lyme disease.  Heavy Sigh. I don't know where to begin. Heather is one of the strongest people I know.  Every day she deals with unimaginable pain from her toes up to her knees.  Her best way to describe this pain is to imagine a hot piece or metal being jammed into her feet and shooting up her legs.  Yet, even with this pain, Heather manages to move forward with her life as her body permits. As time has progressed, so have many more issues.  Don't get me wrong - she has days where the pain and fatigue are tolerable - then there are days where she is so fatigued and riddled in pain, that sleeping is her best and only option. The picture in the blog was taken a few weeks ago.  She looks radiant in this picture.  Honestly, if you didn't know better you would think that Heather is healthy.  I wrote a blo...