2 Year, 2 Words

Lyme Disease.

I've written that I don't want to use this blog to discuss my health issues. But they do affect my business ownership and community leadership.

Two years ago, I went to a doctor and asked to be tested for Lyme, at the insistence of my acupuncturist. It came back negative. What nobody told me: there is at about a 35% false negative rate. Since then I've been told that I can't manage stress or that my symptoms are psycho-somatic due to childhood trauma. (How about the trauma of getting this sick?!) Two years later, at the continued insistence of the acupuncturist, I pushed for further Lyme testing. It was positive.

There's some explanation for how that happens here (especially #6 & #7.)

If you'd like to have a sense of what I've been living with, go here. I have the vast majority of the symptoms.

If you'd like to know how I've managed to keep any part of a business alive, I haven't found a link for that, yet!

I'll be starting treatments soon. If I respond well, I could be a lot better in a few months. In the meantime, I'm likely to keep the Circles activities to a minimum. Running the shop with a few classes and events on weekends only. I'll focus on the Pattern Collaborative until then - designing pattern templates; setting up an online shop; knitting samples; and writing patterns. Hopefully, when we're ready to relaunch, we'll have some solid movement on this front in place. So, in the next few months, I don't know how much I'll have to say about running a business and hosting a community. I'm sure I'll have some reflections as I get closer to rebuilding. Until then, I think I'll post some fun stuff. I mean, like, knitting, like, totally....