our new life...

Life changed with a single bite... a bite from a little creature the size of a grain of rice. A creature created by God. A God that we serve & love. I'm going to be upfront and honest, this blog isn't going to be all rainbows & sunshine. It's going to be filled with the good & the bad, the ups & the downs... our life, "Our life in the {Lyme} light".

In the fall of 2011, my husband Jon came home from work with a little friend, well I guess I can't really call him a friend... enemy is more like it. He came home with a tick starting to embed in his body. Since he has (unfortunately) experienced ticks crawling on him in the past, he knew his new little enemy had to go. We both shivered and felt like we were covered in bugs, much like how you feel when someone starts talking about lice, but that was it. The tick had been on him less than 24 hours, so he felt like he was in the clear, and went on with life... our old life.

In the months that followed he began to "feel old". His body would hurt here and there, but nothing he couldn't deal with. Then in January 2012, things quickly went down hill, yet neither of us knew just what was in store for our family.

On March 5, on our way home from Jon's parents, Jon told me he thought he needed to go to the doctor. I had been begging him to go in for years, since I couldn't even remember the last time he went to the doctor, so when he brought it up, I knew something wasn't right. When we got home he showed me "the rash". There it was, surrounding the spot left by his enemy months ago. Thankfully our doctor's office has late hours on Monday and I was able to call and get him an appointment the next day. Our gut instinct told us Lyme Disease, and less than 24 hours later, his doctor shared the same concern with us.

His doctor shared with us that there were 2 different blood tests that could be done, one locally and one in California. The California test was his recommendation, but shared with us that insurance would not cover this certain test. A week later Jon had blood drawn and sent to IGeneX, Inc. in California.

In the meantime, Jon was put on the antibiotic Doxycycline. Of course this too came with a list of side effects. We're finding everything throws another curve ball at us.

3 weeks later, April 3 to be exact, we finally received the confirmation that we did not want to hear... Jon's testing came back positive for Lyme Disease.

Ugh, Lyme Disease... ticks... eew... how can a little creature, created by God pass such an ugly disease?!?!