As the old expression goes, I am full of piss and vinegar tonight. Not literally, in case you were wondering if I had found some new fangled “cure” for Lyme disease.
Unfortunately my body feels like I am still recovering from a hike up Mt. Everest, so it’s a little hard to act like someone who is full of piss and vinegar. But let me cover a few key points of what is going on.
Hopefully you all read Ashley’s post yesterday about how united we can conquer this disease, as she introduced the new Lyme awareness team and gave an update to her readers as to what is happening with Lymenaide. This changes nothing about LymeBites, except that in addition to what I’ve bee doing all alone we will now have Ashley and Candice both blogging from here on LymeBites. While I will continue to write and let you all along for my journey through Lyme disease, the site will just be expanding with even more information and great writers on it.
But I’m not one for being kept quiet, and while I’m sick, spending so much time in bed, the only way for me to make noise is with my laptop, that’s sort of how LymeBites began in the first place. And so it will continue to be.
I am THRILLED to be part of this amazing team. If you haven’t gone on to check out Nani’s site and Candice’s blog, I implore you to do so. Along with Ashley and myself, they help to make an amazing team committed to working together with you, and everyone else effected by this disease, to bring about some major awareness of this disease.
We thank you all for being our faithful readers and fans, and look forward to continuing to earn and deserve the faith you have in us. We have a lot of really exciting awareness projects coming up, and are joining forces with some other amazing organizations and causes for fundraising efforts. This is an exciting time in Lyme disease, as anyone can tell you the past two years have brought an explosion of exposure to Lyme disease in many ways. From the high numbers of people infected with the disease, to awareness efforts of some amazing groups and people. We are excited to join the fight at such a crucial time in the disease when we have the opportunity to use our voices and our experiences to help stop others from this awful disease.
So you will notice changes to LymeBites as far as the layout and design go as it slowly expands into a larger site. At the same time Lymenaide is having it’s transition, we will be welcoming the additions to the LymeBites team. But have no fear, I will continue as my aunt says “be funny in a funny sort of way” as I try to share my story with you. Sometimes it will make you cry, and a lot of times I hope it will make you laugh. Because when fighting Lyme disease it’s important you do both, laugh and cry…they are both good for your soul and in your journey towards healing.
In the meantime, we are interested to hear what topics or ideas you guys might have that you want us to write about or include in our posts. Please send any topics or ideas to LymeBitesDotCom@yahoo.com where we will see what we can do to address them.
We cannot let Lyme disease win. Those of us who are sick, we must beat it. We must fight for that. Those of you who are not sick, we cannot let Lyme disease claim you as a victum. We must fight for that. Thank you for taking part in this fight, on both levels. We will not lose this fight, we cannot lose it.