Starphoenix
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If you are at the register, about to sign a receipt, and you can't remember how to spell your last name.
You can go from manic dancing around the livingroom at 3 a.m. to crying hysterically the next afternoon.
When you say, "Where is my pen?!" while holding said pen.
When you want to ask for a "ten doctor visits, get one free" card.
When you have to remind yourself, in writing, to use the bathroom.
When you forget what side of the road to drive on.
When you want to ask for a third mortgage.
When you can't remember what you're saying and just say, "you know, THING."
Heather: It is sad, but so true. I am starting a new regimen with a new PA, and I need part-time work, having no idea when and how I will manage. I must wait a bit.
When you find yourself becoming somewhat of a "Lyme missionary," spreading the word about the pestilence.
Steph
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Gosh - seems like a lifetime since March when I last posted in this thread!
I remember it like it was yesterday . . . my second event of swimmer's ear drops in my eye instead of eye drops. Oh how stupid and inept I felt!
But wait . . . it was yesterday! Only, it was the THIRD freaking time I've done this and I cannot for the life of me believe it has happened again.
I had taken precautions to protect myself from the swimmer's ear drops. I had hidden them in the towel closet inside the first aid drawer wrapped w/ an orange ponytail holder! One would think it would have been enough.
But no . . . during some stupor as I finished my shower, it seems I threw them into my makeup case and put the stupid eye drops in the protected place.
Have no fear tho - I was prepared w/ left over eye medicine, gauze and tape. I didn't even have to call the opthamologist this time. I hated to deprive him of another of my comical yet PAINFUL escapades but, you know - I just couldn't take the ridicule again!
So there it is - a lyme babs bartonella brain on abx since 1999 - guess, I'm not well yet huh!
Sherry
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You might be a Lymie if...you've been sick forever, been to 23 different doctors and your sister in law diagnoses you because she's just finished Amy Tan's new novel.
OR
You've unknowlingly started a fashion trend at your daughter's high school for always wearing your sun glasses inside the school. "Hey look, I'm cool, I'm Rachel's mom".
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HEATHERKISS
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You might be a Lymie if you constantly say....... No I Don't Remember.
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Starphoenix
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Chroniccosmic: I can relate to the sunglasses!
I am a singer (though haven't sung publicly in a dog's age), and I had to perform once with dark sunglasses. It was embarrassing, but I also performed with another woman, who, for solidarity, wore them, too!
Steph
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trueblue
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I'll play...
You might be a lymie if... you just had problems spelling lymie.
I'll try again...
You might be a lymie if... you grab the bottle of probiotics at bedtime, take 2 and then notice your mouth tastes like pizza and you just took 2 oil of oregano. (Bizarrely, I woke up feeling better than usual. Ha!)
You might be a lymie if... you catch yourself putting the spoon in the refridgerator and turn around to see the yogurt still sitting on the counter (again).
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Ann-OH
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Somebody probably already posted this as the origin of the word.
You might be a Lymey if you were a British sailor in the 1800's and ate limes while at sea in order to stave off scurvy.
I don't like this term for Lyme disease patients. It is used to make fun of Lyme disease patients and advocates by people who don't believe in chronic Lyme disease and has been used in many publications by them.
I know I can't change it and if it gives identity or comfort to others, that is good.
hopeful123
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YOU Know you are a lymie if you are having a conversation with yourself about which are the last four digits of your phone number..9706 or 9716. had to dial my house to remember as i write this NOW.
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hopeful123
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you know you're a lymie if you can't remember if you already took your atx or not. should you take it "again" or skip it entirely....
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You might be a lymie if... as you back out of the garage, notice the right mirror will hit the side of the garage and break, and you just don�t care.
(It happened to me, driving my mothers car)
.... as you are taking a turn, realise the car is skitting (sp?), end up driving straight into the ditch/snow and still don�t care.
(I did that too. In my mothers car! ) Posts: 155 | From Norway | Registered: Jan 2006
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trueblue
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siggy ~ obviously your mother's car is a menace.
I've got a similar one though.
You might be a lymie... if you go to back out of the garage and see the hose is on the driveway and are too lazy to get out of the car and move it. So you cut the wheel to avoid it and rip the right mirror, mostly, off the car.
(It wasn't my mother's car! )
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You might be a lymie if you stand in front of the telephone for 5 minutes trying to figure out what all the numbers and buttons are for...and what the part in your hand is for and why do you have it in your hand...
scared the he** out of me!
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Okay, my daughter Andrea and I got some great laughs out of this thread. Only problem is, she is insisting I get tested soon, because this stuff happens to me as often as her. I keep telling her it's just my age...
Hope you're all warm and dry! (here we are getting buried in snow even as I type.) Denise
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MagicAcorn
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If you signed on yesterday as Acorn and can't remember your password today and have to become a Magic Acorn instead.
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trueblue
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quote:Originally posted by MagicAcorn: If you signed on yesterday as Acorn and can't remember your password today and have to become a Magic Acorn instead.
Sorry, Magic Acorn nee Acorn... but I might be a lymie if I found that so funny I can't think of anything else to put here.
(not like I've ever done anything like that, mind you.)
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MagicAcorn
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Hi Trueblue
It is funny and sad at the same time. I guess I'm a slightly warped lymie. Anyway, I'm worthy enough to be a magical acorn instead of just a plain ole acorn.
Moi
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- you forgot where you hid the Christmas presents and finally give them to the recipients after finding them a month or two after Christmas.
- you can't remember your own home phone number if a cash register at a store asks you for it.
- you recalled a lymie moment but can't recall it to put it down by the time you get here.
- you can't remember if you'd taken your meds once, twice or at all. (Now, I keep all my pills in a SMTWTFS container so that I don't have to swim so hard through a brain fog, hopefully I'll remember which day it is and whether it's am or pm.)
- you find that so many of your wonderful skills or talents of yesteryear have disappeared, be it in writing poetry, quilting, knitting, and so forth. Let alone finding enough energy to complete a project, even if you meant well to make a gift for a friend or family member.
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Andie333
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Moose,
I loved your post re presents. I actually just found and sent a birthday card to someone
whose birthday was in August!
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- you pull your car into the garage and forget to shift it into park, until you've taken your foot off the brake to get out of the car. Eegads! (I've done this twice and luckily, I put my foot back on the brake just in the nick of time!! I feel seasick if I try to get out of my car while it's rolling...)
- it takes you about 5 attempts to back your car into the garage. (My mind can no longer or barely perceive which way I am steering while trying to drive backwards. I used to be a pro at this and now I am too confused.)
- you put away your son's dirty socks in the hamper then go into another room to sit down and read a book, but the book is not in your hand. Instead you still have a pair of filthy socks and can't remember where the book went.
- Re: Misplaced Presents -- I actually found a couple of Xmas gifts for my kids and gave it to them just in time for Valentine's.
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You might be Lymie if... You can hardly wait til your two year old is potty trained. So you can stop putting her diapers on backwards.
You can't remember when the last time you and your spouse had sex.
Sometimes because you honestly can't remeber &
Sometimes because your too tired or feeling like crap to have sex.
Great thread, Yemaya
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char
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You might be a lymie if....
You say,"Just 2 two things are important here" while holding up 2 finger on each hand for emphasis.
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5dana8
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You know your a lymie if...
At Christmas you are just as surprised and delighted as they are when they open the christmas present you gave them...because you don't have a freakin clue what you bought them.
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5dana8
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deleate.
Shoot, I all ready posted this!
...Sorry
I am crackin myself up here .
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- You walk in to your closet instead of the bathroom... (thank goodness I had piece of mind to check to see if the seat was down - would've been quite the laundry day)
- You have to check your drivers license to remember your name. (I do it all the time)
- You win arguments with your boyfriend out of pity... He knows you can't remember what set you off in the first place.
-------------------- Sometimes when I say �Oh, I�m fine� I want someone to look me in the eyes & say �tell the truth�
If you run your bath water into the tub (which takes a few minutes to fill halfway) and go off to do some other tasks forgetting that your bath water is still running. Eeeek! I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me.
In our former apartment, where we were staying temporarily while our house was being built, I accidently left the bathwater running too long several times, which flooded my in-law's peach market downstairs and caused their ceiling to fall through & it was during peak season. Ooops!
Maybe this is worse for me with being deaf and not being able to hear the bath water still running. Both my husband and I often forget and leave the water running for a while in some part of the house and if we are lucky, one of our kids would come to the rescue 'cuz they can hear it themselves!
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