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This morning was our test to see how we have progressed through Lyme treatment with the photons. Today was the day that my Lyme was due to flare, and it did .... but only slightly. Instead of wanting to lie in bed all day, I woke up before my alarm at 7 and got right up. I felt some slight pain in my shoulders and back along with some fatigue, but none of it was disabling as it had been prior to the photon treatment. I'd say I was about 75% today .... though Willow says I was 70 because of all my complaining (do I really complain that much when I feel bad?). So, I know you're waiting to hear .... I'm not Lyme-free .... I still test for the lowest level of Lyme ... much, much different from the first test where the machine sounded like it died, LOL! The machine showed that I had gotten rid of most of it, so the photons are definitely working, it will just take a little more time. I am bringing a machine home, so I will be able to continue treating. Dr. W said about 3 mo...

We went to France! Better Health Guy, his friend who is here for treatment, and I went to Strasbourg. It was a blast! We drove right up to the beautiful, Gothic Cathedral and some French guy told us we could illegally park for 3 euro. We thought he was the parking lot attendant, and maybe he was .... or maybe not, we'll never know, but we got a parking place right up front! We went up the 300 steps to the top of the Cathedral, looked at the views, and signed the guestbook. For those of you who follow us here for treatment, you now have a mission .... find sixgoofykids and Better Health Guy in the guestbook and sign there with us! We got a coffee in a cafe, bought candies at the fanciest candy store I've ever seen, bought girly stuff for me in the fanciest drug store I've ever seen, then headed out to a concentration camp. Wooo, what a contrast! It was a cold, dreary, misty day .... you couldn't ask for more perfect weather to travel to a concentration camp to lear...

Sorry it's taken me so long to get this written .... well, not really, I'm feeling good so have been too busy to write! Woohoo! The fifth treatment was the same as the others. I felt good beforehand, and felt good afterward. I am not 100%, but am improving, probably about 85-90%. My monthly flare up of symptoms is due. Normally it starts with air hunger, then in the next day or two I'm spending in bed about all day. My air hunger came two nights ago and I'm still feeling fine, so we'll see if the full herx comes or not. I will also look into mold nosodes and babesia nosodes when I get home to use with my machine to get rid of the air hunger. The only other symptoms I'm having are very small, random pains, nothing major at all. I am still taking my sleep medications and have been the whole trip. I didn't think that this was the time to wean off them and did not tell Dr. Woitzel about them. Was that the right thing to do? I have no idea, but I wanted ...

I felt great after the fourth treatment and today as well. I really feel like this Bionic 880 is helping tremendously. Prior to this, when I would stop antibiotics, I would decline, in fact, I was declining leading up to my trip to Germany. Now I am feeling as well as I do on antibiotics. Before my fourth treatment, I finally got my chiropractic adjustment (in my shorts, LOL). It was great! He is very thorough, working his way up from the toes all the way to the head. Today Willow and I went to Heidelberg. What a beautiful city! We walked, and walked, and walked! We walked up to the top of a hill to the castle there. The castle was built from 1294 through the 1500's, so much of it is in ruins. We had a wonderful time. I am feeling really good. I put myself at about 90%, but Willow says I'm more likely 80% from her observations .... but that's me always overestimating how I feel, likely because I have had Lyme for most of my life. Willow has not seen much change. ...

I just got back from a nice walk all by myself. I am happy to find that the bakery right here in Dobel has the best soft pretzel I've had yet. For those of you coming here, it's the second bakery. It's also nice that food is less expensive here. My pretzel and cappuccino were only 2 euro. When I got up this morning my mind was moving a mile a minute. I was thinking about the fact that my "healthy" over the years has not been healthy at all. I didn't know any different since I've had this for the majority of my life. All along I thought I had a tendency to be lazy, that I had to push myself to overcome my inherent sloth. As a result, I was the opposite. I worked hard at everything I did and was successful right up until I could no longer push myself to overcome the illness. I look back at the four times I was overcome by the Lyme and see that there were several factors that made me ill. All four times I believe mold exposure was part of the last ...

We had our third photon treatment yesterday with the same protocol as the previous treatments. We were all three starting to feel a little puny since our previous treatment was five days earlier .... with the weekend and having a Tues/Fri schedule of treatments this week, it just happened to work out that way. I felt great as soon as we did the treatment and felt good the rest of the day. This morning I woke up a little sore ... a toxic sore .... so I took an epsom salt bath. Right now I feel good, but have a little air hunger, which I hear can be from toxins (your cells need more oxygen). I'm taking chlorella to try to move some of these toxins out. I don't have any of my other Lyme symptoms. Steel has some organ pain in his right side this morning, and Willow's back is sore ... Willow had chiropractic yesterday so the sore back is probably a result of the adjustment. It's a yucky, rainy day, so other than going to the grocery, we will probably just stick around he...

This morning I went to Mass at a Church in Bad Herrenalb. It was a pretty church, but the churches here seem to be understated, possibly because of the Lutheran influence. It also wasn't heated. Brrr. Mass was very nice, but I didn't understand it, LOL. For a small church (maybe 50 people), they had 11 altar servers! I was surprised that they receive Communion in the hand as well as directly on the tongue as I had heard that in Europe it was on the tongue only. I had also heard that they kneel and stand at different parts than we do, but that was not true either. In fact, it didn't seem important to them if someone was kneeling, standing or sitting, though if someone kneeled it was the same time as we do in the US. They did no read a psalm, there was an instrumental interlude. The priest is the one to sing alleluia ... he went up to read the Gospel and sang alleluia first then the congregation followed. I have no idea what the homily was about, LOL. The altar serv...

Today we went to Baden Baden for the afternoon. It is a town about 45 minutes from here famous for its spas. There are natural hot water mineral springs and royalty has gone there for generations for healing. It would be fun to go back and visit a spa. We saw them, they are very beautiful. There is a naked spa and a dressed spa .... I think I'll opt for the dressed. :) The three of us went with a mother and daughter who are here for treatment. It was a wonderful day and all of us seemed to feel quite well. I am feeling really good. Very few Lyme symptoms .... the one I miss the least is the crushing fatigue.

I have felt really good, but not great, since last evening. For a couple days after the first photon treatment I felt really bad in the morning and better in the afternoon and evening, but today I woke up feeling good. The air is clean in Dobel. It's a small town about 25 min. outside Pforzheim in the Black Forest. The tap water is great .... I hear it comes straight from the mountains. I'm a total water snob, so it's unusual for me to drink right out of the faucet, but this is good. We are just a short walk from downtown where there are several restaurants. The food so far has been great. I'm not a big fried food person, or a big pork person, but my favorite meal so far has to be this fried pork we got at the restaurant closest to our guest house. The pork was as tender as veal and was served with roasted potatoes and salad. Yum. The forest is beautiful, absolutely beautiful! It looks different than the forest in the US because of the gigantic spruce trees. I...

Well, I made it to Germany and have had my first appointment with Dr. Woitzel. He is a very nice man and really seems to care about his patients. He speaks English well, though the nurses are more limited. One of them asked if we knew any other languages and I said Spanish, so she spoke to me in Spanish! She was very please to not have to speak English. Then today, Dr. Woitzel and the other nurse asked if I spoke Spanish to her and he started speaking Spanish to me, too, but only for a couple minutes. I was tested with the Biocom machine and tested to have a heavy load of Lyme. What a shocker, LOL! After the testing, we went to the pharmacy and bought the nosodes for Lyme and the minerals, etc. for the IV after treatment. Then we came back and they taped the nosodes and two live vials of borrelia to our solar plexus, then we used the Bionic on the designated points. One person in our group is hyperthyroid, so she wasn't supposed to use it on her thyroid. Next we got the in...

I'm at the airport waiting for my flight to Atlanta.  I'm a bundle of emotions ..... It's the longest I've been away from hubby in 24 years.  The goofy kids were sad to see me go.  I was sad to leave them all. Yet at the same time I'm so anxious for the possibility of getting well.  Anxious in a good way about the idea of not feeling this pain all the time.  Anxious in a mixed way about getting back to living life fully ..... what will I do?  How will I get involved again?  In what?  I've been sick for years now and the prospect of a cure makes me anxious.     I'm nervous to be going to a foreign country where I don't speak the language and to see a doctor who speaks mine in a limited fashion. I'm really excited about getting to spend time in Europe, see another country, and live in their culture for a time.  What an opportunity! My head is spinning .... I'm overwhelmed.  We left to go to Starbucks with the kids on the way to the airport ... I fo...

Tomorrow is the big day!  I am so excited! My goofy kids are not looking forward to my being gone for three whole weeks .... neither is Mr. Sixgoofy!  It's not that I'm looking forward to going or am excited to leave, it's that I'm excited to be well ... okay, I'll be honest, I'm excited to spend three weeks in another country, too.   I have most likely had Lyme for 35 years.  I have a great immune system so was healthy most of the time though I had random symptoms for as long as I can remember.  I was disabled by the illness in 1982, 1986, and 1991. Through my healthy years I would have weird issues .... like in the fall my shoulders would ache.  I thought I was just in bad shape and the heavy sweaters caused pain.  I would have terrible fatigue and wondered why everyone else wasn't as tired as me.  They were all problems that could be considered somewhat normal. Then in 1982 when I was in college, I was so tired all the time that I just got up for class.  ...