Yet Another One Has Passed Away

I just read another fellow “Lymie” has passed away. This is so sad and discouraging. I believe this is the fourth member of the forum I post on that has died since I joined in Nov 2008. This is just the fourth that I KNOW of. Who says Lyme can’t kill???

I remember one day going to my Dr for my IV treatment and asking where the “sinus infection lady was”. She had died the night before and this was the first I had heard of it. I was shocked. We both received our treatments at the same time, every day. She was a quiet, friendly lady about my parents age. She had a sinus infection that ate through her facial bones and spread to her brain and eventually killed her.

Another day I asked where the “breast cancer lady” was. No one knew for sure and I am guessing she had passed away as well. The staff cannot say so it was all of us in the waiting room chatting. This lady was a trooper! She would go for Chemo, then IV meds, then hybaric oxygen therapy…everyday. I told her it was a full time job to be sick! Goodness!

Ya see, when you go for regular treatments and meet all the other sick-o-s, you become friends and share stories. I KNOW Lyme is not Cancer and antibiotic treatment is not Chemo but it is still a pretty big downer to go to the Dr every darn day to get your meds.

It’s an even bigger dower when you try so hard to get well and still become defeated by your illness, whatever it may be.