First Regain Health

I have been reading Connie Strasheim's powerful new book, Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment, and what Dr. Susan Marra wrote in her interview about Lyme bacteria has been enlightening for me. She is a naturopath physican who has trained extensively with such LLMD's at Dr. Charles Jones. She, is a Lyme practitioner in Seattle. Hopefully, you readers will also find insights into your own battles. She spoke about how students of naturopathic medicine take an oath to do no harm to the patient, and that usually means avoiding pharmaceutical medications. With Lyme Disease her treatment protocol has had to change.

She says:

"I had every intention of employing a holistic alternative approach to health care, until I clinically met Borrelia, Babesia, Bartonella, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, etc. etc...."( She refers to them as the 21st century chain gang bugs.) "They are malicious, clever, resilient, cunning, employ camouflage techniques, and are adaptable to an every changing micro-and macro-environment. ......they have one goal, to proliferate. I needed to change my definition of what it meant to "do no harm".


She changed her definition from "first do no harm" to "first regain health", taking the lesser evil of two roads in order to treat her patients with Lyme Disease and co-infections. First regain health....this is now stored in my memory for when things get tough and we want to quit treatment. First regain health ~ even if at times it feels like we are doing harm.

Joel has been back in the trenches with his treatment. He has extreme fatigue and is sleeping 2-4 hrs a day and 8-10 hrs at night without improvement. He is weak to the point that often even his voice is soft. His memory is getting worse. Yesterday he told me all about this idea he had for heating a garage floor and described it in detail. For me this was disturbing because he has told me this detailed idea twice before and does not remember at all. His liver and gall bladder have been "aching" and his kidneys are showing a bit of duress. I had called the office today to order some supplements and the office manager asked me how Joel was doing...I told her and she said, "It is up to you, but I think we need to set up a phone consult with Dr. V. After 3 months he should not be feeling like this." Tonight we spoke to Dr. V and she is very concerned that there is an underlying neurological condition or health issue besides the Lyme. He should have improved by now, especially since he was not extremely ill to begin with ~ .....so he is seeing her this Thurs. afternoon.. First regain health.