![]() I’m bad but not that bad, I would think while walking through a photograph exhibit on chronic Lyme in the local library, with its pictures of hollow-eyed sufferers with platoons of pill bottles, dozens lined up in rows - until I found myself with drawers full of enough pill bottles to put those medicine cabinets to shame. I’m bad but not that bad, I would think when people told me about taking months of IV antibiotics - until I took IV antibiotics myself. ![]() When you have a chronic illness and struggle to get better, you try to maintain a certain equilibrium by distinguishing yourself from all those other sick people, the ones who are trying truly crazy things while you are proceeding sensibly and moderately along the path to health.ĭuring my own multiyear struggle to get better from Lyme disease, I spent a lot of time reassuring myself this way, only to have my resolve crumble in the face of continued sickness, mounting desperation.
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