What's your funny Lyme story?

That's a good one !!! LOL

I got in my car this winter-- wearing snow boots, hat, scarve, etc...and was half way to the store before I realized I had put on my bathrobe....instead of my coat.

Then I forgot what I wanted from the store.

My funny Lyme story is that before we got ac's upstairs and my asthma became bad this summer I had to inform my MOm everytime I have to go pee and she had to walk behind me upstairs to follow me with my inhaler, emergency number, and pulse ox meter.

 

Hum...what else...well I'm sure it's funnier than being told there is nothing wrong with you in the ER 15 times in 2 years.

Or waiting in the waiting room at your primary care who just says you have gerd and only spends 5 mins with you and doesn't listen to your chest when you have recently been told you may have bronchitis and it takes 3 hours for him to do this and he barely speaks English and thenthe nurse comes back 3 hours later with your referrals as your blood sugar is dropping badly and says "since your in a rush".

 

Or not being able to go anywhere without a 1 liter bottle of salt water because of dysautonomia, sugar tabs, juice, inhaler and now pulse ox meter. LOL.

I know it all affects different people differently and we are all different ages...but I am a young adult stuck in the house all summer...pale as can be and thinner than ever in my life living by the meal, the meters and the bathroom visits...trying terribly to entertain.

 

I guess God does have a sense of humor because I believe there are lessons in all illness.

 

I'll work on the funny. xo

 

 

 

My funny story . . .

The other day, I went to unlock the front door to my house. Perfectly normal, right? Only in my case, I was trying to unlock it with my car's keyless entry remote. I kid you not, I was standing there in front of the door pressing the remote at least 2-3 times before I realized what I was doing. Sad, but kinda humorous too!!

Lymmester, I'm jealous of you being so close to a Whole Foods!!!!

LOL Cat!! It would be a 2 1/2 hr trip one way for me!!

Oh I love this thread! I have been laughing so hard my eyes are tearing up. I love to laugh and miss it - I haven't laughed for 4 months - literally!

I only have mild neuro symptoms but I do lots of weird stuff and some words come out of my mouth that I didn't say tho- at least I didn't mean to say them.

For example -
One day I told my preacher "Happy Mothers Day" (he's a man!) Our eyes locked for what seemed an eternity and I knew something wasn't right with what I said but I couldnt immediatley figure what it was! I stammered, then he covered for me.
embarrassing but like achinggrace said - Pain x distance = funny.

This past Sunday before church I wanted to have coffee and eggs. Well I poured cup of coffee and instead of milk, I poured egg beaters in it! I looked at it and I KNEW it wasn't right but still took me a few seconds to realize it. Heck we don't even use the quart size - we use gallon sizes of milk!
I guess maybe I was trying to consolidate my breakfast.

Then right after church as we go shake hands etc with preacher and family - I was talking to my preacher and the lady behind me (they were asking how I was) when I lost my balance and leaned a little too far to the left almost into the wall. I guess I was embarassed and not sure if I really leaned or just felt like I did so I said to them "Did you just lose your balance or was that me?" STUPID!

OMG! I am still reeling from that one. I am thinking maybe I just need to avoid my pastor!

I guess it we don't laugh about this stuff then it is really scary so might as well laugh.

BUMPING because I need another good laugh today......

I love this thread. I think all of us have something that is a little funny.

The other day I had a craveing for mac and cheese, so I got out my gluten free, preservative free, all natural, over priced mac and cheese and put some water in a pot and set it to boil. In a few minutes it was rolling so I opened my mac and cheese but instead of pouring the noodles into the pan I poured the cheese.

However I didn't notice, I boilded the cheese mix for the alloted 10 minutes stirring occasionally, then carefully added my noodles some milk and a bit of butter. All the while thinking about how good my mac and cheese was going to be. I stired it all together, put some in a bowl and headed back to the couch. It wasn't until I took the first bite that I figured out something had gone terrible wrong. It took by brother comeing home to figure out what I had done.


One of my favorites is that being a neuro lymie I sometime has a skewed perspective, wich I have found at times isn't so bad, case in point.

I was walking to the front counter at my LLMD's office followed by my mother. We sat down and started talking with the nurse when my mom got up to use the drinking fountain that was behind us. I'm not sure if my brain fog didn't osmosis into her brain for a breif second because she, instead of drinking out of the fountain like a normal person she stuck her tounge out like a dehydrated cat and bent over while sucking in at the same time.

To me, this was the funniest thing I had ever seen. I began laughing uncontrolably. My mom and the nurse started looking at me but as I continued to laugh hysterically, to the point that I fell out of my chair they started to laugh to. We made such a distrubance that my doc came out from one of the rooms to see if everyone was ok.

By the time we had wrangled in my overactive sence of humor it was a half and hour later. But every time I have an appointment we still chuckle about it.

Whenever my friends pet me on the head my leg twitches and my foot thumps.

I think I might be part dog!

Well I don't know if this happened because of my neuro lyme or not but I sure hope that was the reason!

On Tuesday I was at a funeral for my aunt. After the service and before the cemetary I went in the ladies room and I knew there was another person in there as well but I didn't know who. When I sat down in the stall, that lady said " hi, how's it going?" I said "oh, not too bad I guess" (I thought she knew me!)

Then she said "can you believe this???" I said "I know! It's so sad - It was such a shock."

Then I hear her say "ok, well I'll give you a call later" bye!

OMG!!!!! She wasn't even talking to me! She was on her cell phone!!! Ok so, how embarassing was that???

My funny story is similar to Travelers................I was in a store one day and I kept feeling a vibration. Each time I took out my cell phone to see if someone was calling me. By the third time I checked my ringer, it was on. I finally realized the vibration was coming up through my feet through my body. I started laughing. I still laugh about it when I think about it. I'm also terrified of bees and wasps and sometimes I feel the vibration and scream because I think it is a bee.

I know when I was a newbie here, I would lay down on my bed and swear I felt an earthquake!! I grew up on the San Andreas fault line, so that was my point of reference. I was told by the 'old timers' then that I was experiencing my blood pounding through my system so hard that it kind of "shook" me with each heartbeat. LOL! I just thought hubby was being a really hard sleeper!!

Walking,
That's a hard one. I believe that first we have to accept that we are very ill, then we won't be so embarrassed about our symptoms. I don't make any excuses, but I will tell people that I have numerous tick-borne infections and that is what is causing me to do ______. Then if they don't believe me, that's their problem. Same goes for my family, although I am fortunate as my family has known for many, many years now that there has been something seriously wrong with my health.

I know when my memory was at it's worst, it was very hard on my hubby- partly because I had some pretty bad anxiety issues as well. So every time I couldn't remember something - or find my notes- I would have an anxiety attack. Poor guy! Sometimes he would comfort me and other times he was just terribly frustrated himself! He did yell at me a time or two, but I yelled right back that I was not doing this on purpose!! I think he had it the worst when I was really ill though. He wanted to 'fix me' sooo bad!

LOL, Lymester!! I though of that too!!!


As far as what I did - well I took a lot of notes, and I learned not to use those small sticky notes. I always lost those!! I had two separate Steno notepads. One was for things I had to do that day, and I wrote down everything I had to do!! The other was for the small notes like what time I put something in the oven and what time it had to come out. Why I was walking out the door (seriously), and other little things like something I needed to remember to tell my hubby (the car has a flat tire or whatever).

The other thing that saved me was routines. I wouldn't allow myself (and still don't) to put my purse down anywhere but where it belonged, I learned to attach my keys to the car and the house to my purse - so I couldn't walk out of the house and lock myself out - again. Kind of funny, because it's the little things like that that made my life a little easier.