A poem for all (I think that you have never got, A poem as lovely as this zot)

me | 09/24/2005 | Creeper, as told to Joyce Killmore-Trolles

[creeperdavis]

A poem

[Alice au Wonderland]

I'm waiting with almost bated breath...

[Alice au Wonderland]

Any possibility of Lyme's Disease?

[EsmeraldaA]

Well...

There is MoJo and then there is MoJo2001. The latter is a 'she' and she's my boss at the canteen.

[EsmeraldaA]

LOL!
The first one is a HE and I don't really know him.

[Darksheare]

It is a possibility.
Since I hike alot, it is a possibility that one of those 8 legged little vampires nailed me.

[Alice au Wonderland]

she's my boss at the canteen.

Canteen. A brick-and-mortar one or the FReeper Canteen?

[NicknamedBob]

You know, I was just going to suggest that possibility.

You went hiking recently, Darks. Has your doctor eliminated that?

[EsmeraldaA]

The FReeper canteen.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Oh, sh@#$!%t.

I hope you don't mind that I'm adding you to my personal prayers.

[EsmeraldaA]

Mmmmmm

[NicknamedBob]

Joint pain is one of the symptoms, and you are right in the incubation period.

[Alice au Wonderland]

My understanding is that Lyme's can incubate without symptomology a lot longer than is commonly believed and that the rash that we're all supposed to look for is atypical rather than typical. I also understand, from a fellow parrishioner who contracted Lyme's last year, that anti-biotic treatment could last for a while.

NnB, do you have better, more reliable info?

[Darksheare]

Odd part is that my knees have hurt more or less constantly since 1999.
But, my knees could hurt for that entire time for multiple different reasons.
*shrugs*

But yes, Lymes incubation period is about right to explain the knee pain currently going on.

[NicknamedBob]

From a Canadian site... http://www.canlyme.com/lime.html

Lyme Disease is determined by clinicians, not labs
...no lab has a gold standard test to date, some labs are just better than others.

The only treatment available to date is antibiotic. If caught early and treatment given in sufficient dosage over sufficient time all is well in most cases. There remains a significant number of treatment failures usually as a result of insufficient dose/time of treatment and/or late diagnoses.

These treatment failures have proven to benefit significantly from longer term antibiotic treatment and patients sometimes have to be very demanding to receive such treatment.

[Darksheare]

Go ahead.
Doesn't bother me at all.

[Darksheare]

Lymes can do some odd stuff.
It is a possibility to get it without symptoms for awhile.
Or, you can have symptoms almost immediately.
Guy I know who is an EMT got Lymes.
He pretty much had no symptoms for roughly 7 months or so.
He had to transport a guy who everyone thought had a stroke.
Nope, Lymes.
Guy got Lymes due ot tick bite in his own yard.
He could whistle and was known for whistling tunes, when John transported him, the guy couldn't move half his face.

I'm hoping the Lymes test comes back negative.

[EsmeraldaA]

I am keeping a positive mind about this.
Still, you know you are in my thoughts and prayers Darks.

[Alice au Wonderland]

Me too.

On a different subject altogether, one of the mods has been modifying. I pinged you.

[Darksheare]

Okers.
Thanks.

[Darksheare]

Thanks>
I'm hoping it is just something minor that can be dealt with with a simple knee brace or something..