Topic: For a laugh - You know you have Lyme when ....
Haley
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YOU KNOW YOU HAVE LYME WHEN:
1) You don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along. 2) You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police. 3) "Getting lucky" means you find your car in the parking lot. 4) Your sweetie says, "Let's go upstairs and make love" and you answer, "Honey, I can't do both!" 5) Everything hurts; but you don't know when or where it will hurt. 6) You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead. 7) You get exhausted just waking up. 8) Your children can do math better than you. 9) People call at 7 pm. And ask, "Did I wake you?" 10) You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions [for once you don't have brain fog]. 11) You look forward to your IV infusion of abx [or oral abx]. 12) You turn down the lights because of photosensitivity rather than romance. 13) You sit in a rocking chair and get motion sickness. But the rocking chair isn't moving. 14) Your GPS becomes your best friend when driving 15) You get motion sickness when you drive. Forget about trying to be the passenger! 16) You burn the midnight oil until 9:00 PM or 1 AM or 6 AM depending on your internal clock's daily computations. Everyday is different. 17) You put the margarine in the toaster oven and try to butter your bread. You put the margarine in the cupboard, the knife in the refrigerator, and the toast in the sink. Then you walk around in circles trying to find the toast. 18) You get exercise by going to the bathroom 10 or more times a day. 19) One shelf of the refrigerator is filled with abx (or supplements, herbs, etc) 20) You can't remember how to turn the shower off. 21) You can't figure out how to get the key out of the ignition [you forgot about the little black button you push in]. 22) You can't find your way home and you only took a walk around the block. 23) When your little black book contains only names ending in M.D. 24) You get winded playing chess. 25) You look forward to a dull evening. 26) The best part of your day is over when your alarm clock goes off. 27) You have too much room in the house and not enough room in the medicine cabinet. 28) When you wake up with that morning-after feeling and you didn't do anything the night before. 29) When it takes longer to rest than to get tired. 30) There are three signs of Lyme Disease. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget. 31) The only part of your body that gets a "workout" are your thumbs - from clicking on that remote or mousepad all day. 32) When your idea of cleaning the house is sweeping the floor with a glance. 33) You know you have Lyme when you stop to think and forget to start again 34) When you wake up screaming and stressed - then you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. 35) When your day was a total waste of makeup. 36) When you think to yourself: "This ain't no party...this ain't no disco..."
and finally: ***37) When all the pharmacists and lab workers in town know you on a first name basis.
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RDaywillcome
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IckyTicky
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Today is my oldest daughter's senior Prom. I decided to let her get her nails done at a salon and off we went.
Afterwards we were getting in the car and she was talking on her cell phone and suddenly exclaimed "OMGosh! Where is my PHONE!?!?" Even worse...I was looking STRAIGHT at her and exclaimed, "I don't KNOW!"
Oy..can I blame it on nail salon fumes? I stood outside most of the time LOL
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Loved it. So many things were so true for me.
I really related to #17... I am always going around in circles trying to figure out where i put things in stupid places
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My daughter's prom was also this weekend, Icky. When I was hemming her dress, my scissors disappeared. So I took another pair from my sewing box. Then when I needed them again, the new pair was also gone. So I yelled at another child for taking my scissors when I needed them, who responded "Ah, both pairs are in your lap, mom."
Oops.
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Thank you!!!! I really needed to read that today. I will send it on to my husband who was just dxd, too. We both need cheering these days.
I have not been able to drive for years....and I used to put thousands and thousands of miles on my car when working. Now I can't find my way home.
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Tricky Tickey
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................when you see a dark gray object shoot accross the room out of the corner of your eye & it's not a mouse!
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This was great! Get exhausted just from waking up,only exercise is going to the bathroom 10 or more times a day are my 2 favorites. How about at night too! Makes for a great night's sleep
I like being able to read something like this that so many of us can relate to and at least have a little chuckle. Thank you L
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Great list! From a friend: she arrived at the dentist at 8 pm, thinking it was her scheduled 8 am appt.
...when you can recognize Lyme-think elsewhere - a business downtown had Denver, CO and Geneva, Switzerland with the same time! I loved it - felt right at home.
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lol, I loved the list and can relate to so many of the items there.
Had my first getting lost event on Monday. It was quite scarey.
I was driving to my parents house for my mom's birthday, stopped at a store along the way. When I came out of the store I couldn't find my car.
I was looking for my old car and not the one I drive now.
I finally remembered that I had a little button on my key pad that would make the horn blow.
I found the car with the beeping horn and was a little confused for a few minutes. Then I remembered, oh yes, this is my car and there is my mom's gift on the passenger seat.
Then I headed out of the parking lot and couldn't decide which way I should go. I sat there for a few minutes and decided to go the opposite way from which I came.
After a few minutes of driving I realized that I knew where I was and where I was going. I was greatly relieved.
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...when you stump the people who check bags going through the metal detector upon entering institutions -
"What's that in your bag?!" I smile at them and say, "Guess!" Only one person ever did get it right - I carry a very metal chiropractic activator with me for my joints, which get disjointed easily and in need of immediate fixing - and for a small fee, am willing to demonstrate -
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Haha, so true! Not too many there that I can't relate to!
"6) You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead."
^I've been getting this lately. Have to find it somewhat humorous, but .. really? I guess more than anything, its bothersome that it doesn't even wake me when they check if I'm breathing!
And to think that I'd go so quietly that EVERYONE wouldn't know it when it happened anyway.. Posts: 60 | From MO | Registered: Jul 2010
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And you know you have lyme when you reread your own post and can't make sense of it.
Oh dear, I've remembered why I just read the boards here and never post.. Posts: 60 | From MO | Registered: Jul 2010
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penguingirl
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You know you have lyme when you are cleaning your house and see a little black thing and freak out thinking it's a tick, but really it's a piece of lint or black sesame seed or a peppercorn.
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quote:Originally posted by penguingirl: You know you have lyme when you are cleaning your house and see a little black thing and freak out thinking it's a tick, but really it's a piece of lint or black sesame seed or a peppercorn.
Ugh, I do that all the time now!!
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Dogsandcats
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Sbh93- I am so impressed that your were hemming your daughter's promo dress... I would have lost the needle then sat on it Sewn a hem down the middle and made pants The only kind of scissors I would use are the kindergarten kind
All very funny - needed a good laugh, thank you Haley!
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Billy Graham Posts: 1967 | From California | Registered: Oct 2010
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"Hemming" was a bold, boastful word. I ended up going for "last the night" and safety pinning two straps to be an inch shorter in the end.
How about searching for a ringing cell phone that's in your pocket, going mad wondering why the sound seems to be following you?
-------------------- ------------ It took 20 years to find out I'm not crazy. New bite in 2010 pushed my body over the edge. Positive for lyme, babs, bart, and myco. I am not a doctor and happily offer only my own opinions. Posts: 357 | From The Beach | Registered: Feb 2011
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penguingirl
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I was in the car on the way back from LLMD today and on the highway I saw a car pass us by that had "Labcorp" and their logo on the side of the door. I wonder if they just came from my LLMD's office to collect blood samples for CD57 tests.
Anyway - who would look at a van on a highway and wonder about other people's CD 57 scores. Only someone with lyme!!
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Sounds a LOT like me, minus the nap, but from bed to couch and couch to bed. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. lol
I actually tried to accomplish a few things today, and the entire time the COUCH was calling out my name.
I have seen the list before, but every time I read it, I get another laugh, because we DO need to vent through humor. I can't remember where I saw this, but some one had posted how she did not find it humorous to joke about such a serious disease. I believe we HAVE to lighten up, sometimes, and laugh at the craziness of it all, considering the alternative.
My son left his cell phone in my room the other day, it and started ringing. He laughed his butt off when he came into the room, and I was blindly bashing my alarm clock, half asleep (or still sleeping, because I do not remember doing this), wondering why the "snooze" button was not responding! lol!
And the son who lives with me is actually getting used to finding crackers in the frig and my cell phone or sunglasses in the food cupboard.
My middle son used to call me a "loser," when he lived with us, because I was constantly losing my keys, cell phone, sunglasses and many other items. At least he called me that, affectionately.
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OMG that was friggin hilarious!! I'm going to print that out and put it up so I can laugh everyday. Fantastic!!
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ktkdommer
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Funny, funny stuff!
Penguin girl, I do things like that all the time. It is good to know so much but sad to know so much.
My sister with Lyme lost her phone last week and called it. She could hear it ringing in the freezer. Why?
My husband asked me earlier this week if I was taking speed because I was washing the car, trimming the dog and potting flowers all at the same time. The crazy thing is I never had intentions of doing any of it. It just happened. The day prior I couldn't have done a thing.
Lyme! How nice to make it fun!
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Getting ready to leave, holding my various bags, then looking all over for my cane, then realizing I'm already holding it under all the bags...
akin to wondering where that cell phone could be that's ringing in the back pocket -
Oh, kt - you asked why the cell phone was in the freezer? I think that's called doing cold calling! And so reassuring to read that you didn't pot the dog.
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