Sexual Frustration? Lymie Dating?

Thea_ls said...

How's the weather? about -15*F lately :P

ohhh my!!!

I feel pain just thinking about it! Are you also intolerant to the cold weather from Lyme? I was thinking about moving down south.

It's incredibly frustrating, but I feel like I've got very little to offer anyone in a dating capacity at this point, so I try to avoid letting things go in that direction. Having lots of good friends helps keep me sane, at least. Usually people expect a lot of time and energy from a partner, and it just isn't always in me to give. Plus I have this personal conviction that the fact that I'm so ill makes me automatically unattractive. Lyme baggage ftw.

Funny story Sick.  Learn from my mistakes.

One day over the summer I was on the elyptical at the gym when along comes a very attractive woman striking up a random conversation with me.  I'm like wow, this doesn't happen every day.  Let's see where this goes....

So blah blah blah, we start talking about Lyme disease, how I got it etc.  Well classic foot in mouth crossed up with very ditzy bimbo- I said "well I mountain bike every day in the summer, so I guess I could consider myself high risk with Lyme.  Mountainbiking in CT to Lyme is kind of like Rock Hudson to AIDS-unavoidable".

Bimbo response:"Ohh you have AIDS?".

Well that was that.

WEll my hubby and I are both Lymies; independently of each other. We spend almost all our time in bed together, but the only sweating going on is from our Babs herxes.

It's a sorry state of affairs, believe me. But we have hope for getting better! We were healthy when we met and married; though he had lyme already he thought he'd been "cured" by those two weeks of Doxy. I got bitten 4 1/2 years ago, and the last two years we have both been really sick.

I feel bad for our kids most of all. But at least we do understand each other and what the other is going through.

Thea - I completely know what you mean about filling chilled to the core (even though I feel like I'm mostly recovered otherwise). I sometimes get SO COLD that I can't stop shaking, even under a couple blankets. My boyfriend will be sitting around in his boxers and a t-shirt. A really hot shower (like too hot to put my face under the water) or putting on lots of clothes and lying under a down comforter for awhile seem to be the only cures. It's such a weird feeling to feel THAT cold even though you know there's no reason to be cold. I keep the heat at 68, which I hate (I'd much rather have it at 76!), but my heating bills have just been too high to keep it warmer.