Facing Holidays with Chronic Lyme

November 25, 2017

Author: Paula Jackson Jones
Orig Pub: 11/25/2017

Nothing reminds you of your illness more than when you’re limited by the things that you can no longer do and the places that you can no longer go. And nothing highlights those limitations more than the holidays. Grieving the loss of holiday traditions, or feeling like you’re letting your friends and family down by staying home or cutting outings short, can elicit so many difficult emotions that no one should have to deal with around the holidays.

No one ever thinks that something as tiny as a tick bite can change their life in so many ways, until it happens to them. I sit with people in person and on the phone who are struggling to understand this disease, struggling to make sense of their new normal, struggling to keep it together for their families. Struggling. It’s something that chronically ill people do constantly. Everything is a struggle. Getting up in the morning, even getting through the day. Trying to plan events. Even something like going to the grocery store is taken for granted. I remember getting out and going to the store and running into people who would say things like “Oh, you look so good. You must be doing better” without realize just how much effort it took for me to pass for “good”. How much energy it took just to get dressed and put on a good face and be seen in public.

More at this linK: https://lymetimewithpaulajacksonjones.blogspot.com/2017/11/facing-holidays-with-chronic-lyme.html
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Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver