Lyme Disease Lockup

Day 1 – Waking Up w/ Full Blown Lyme

I am in the locked facility with full blown lyme disease. I am sick but they have agreed to give me 28 days of antibiotic therapy if I agree to stay in the lock-up. I feel like I am being put in jail. I am so scared that my lyme disease symptoms will worsen.

I meet all the my room-mates and residents. My room-mates are all cool, enjoyable people, but I really piss off the most dominant person on the floor. Some are regular people with problems and others have bigger problems. My pissed off roommate is a regular person who is the leader wherever he goes. I opened the door and made a lot of noise throughout the night and he woke up kinda upset. But he calmed down, we talked and became friends. He has some issues of aggression to overcome, and I am sure he will overcome them if he gets a stable place to live and work. He is here voluntarily as are most people. I am here voluntarily too, at least on paper.

He said he was camping this summer and found a deer tick in his belly. I googled “aggression and lyme tick bite” and clicked on a link from the NIH, The National Institues of Health. The article stated that 55% of untreated Lyme Disease Sufferers have aggression. Out of that 55%, 25% have thoughts of suicide, and 11% have thoughts of homicide. I am so much pain just watching violent movies hurts. I am too sick to hurt anyone. All I want for myself is to feel better. I read all over the internet how people get the help they need by presenting their symptoms to medical personnel, but Doctors at the VA have completely disregarded my pain, the worst of my life.

I meet the Psychiatrist Dr. V. FRI Morning and I tell her my entire story, leaving out half of it. Like the abnormal growths of lymph nodes in my neck and spine from an untreated infection. I wonder what it could be? She says “I don’t know anything about Lyme but you made some statements, did you not My K?”

They refused to give me my morning antibiotic for unknown reasons. Then I got my night time antibiotic – the first treatment in 24 hours. My Lyme Disease is not a priority here at all. Two steps forward for the 2 doxycyclene pills I received the day before, one step back for the toxic processed food (additives and residues), toxic processed air, and the painful hard bed and terrible pillow affecting my spine. It feels skeletal and hard bed related but I hope it subsides with time and antibiotics!