*Originally published 8/15/18* $7,298.66. This is (about) the amount that my family and I have spent for my treatment so far THIS...

*Originally published 6/25/18* My Lyme friend Abby was here for a week and it was AMAZING!! We had so much fun I can’t even begin to...

*Originally published 5/31/18* For the last day of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, I decided to gather a list of tips for those just...

*Originally published 5/29/18* I wrote this on Memorial Day while stuck in bed: For the first time in a long time, I’m about to sleep...

*Originally published 5/7/18* Yesterday was my Lyme-a-versary! Six years. Wow. I never thought that I would still be sick six years...

*Originally published 5/1/18* Happy Lyme Disease Awareness month! I happened to start celebrating a few days earlier when I had the honor...

*Originally published 4/10/18* Relationships. This is one thing people with chronic illnesses do not talk about a lot, because it is...

*Originally published 3/3/18* This past Wednesday, I had the honor of testifying in front of the Maryland House of Delegates, and the...

*Originally published 1/12/18* I withdrew from school yesterday. Sadly, if you recall, this is not the first spring semester I will be...

*Originally published 11/22/17* This week for my blog for Montgomery College we were asked to write about what we were thankful for. That...

*Originally published 11/8/17* It’s time to talk about the two dark monsters that live underneath every Lymies bed: anxiety and...

*Originally published 10/13/17* I swear that Lyme has a super power of knowing when you have a lot to do and that is when it attacks....

*Originally published 9/8/17* I'm tired. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tired of not sleeping. I'm tired of feeling nauseous. I'm tired of...

*Originally published 5/7/17* When I first got a headache five years ago, I never thought it would last this long. I could have never...

*Originally published 3/9/17* I’ve found the cure for Lyme disease and his name is Braxton Jayce Kelley, also known as my 2 month old...

*Originally published 12/9/16* This year has been pretty bad all around. I started 2016 off with a new picc line and had just withdrawn...

*Originally published 10/3/16* It happened to me last night. The thing I have dreaded for the last 4 and half years. The thing I have...

*Originally published 8/16/16* Two Fridays ago, I woke up with some pain in my left arm where my PICC line was. As the day progressed,...

*Originally published 8/4/16* I have been doing pretty well this summer! The first thing I did this summer was get my Lyme Warrior...

*Originally published 7/5/16* A new weird poem by Cassidy Colbert (insomniac) Once upon a time I was whole, then you came along and...