Adi's Fall-Apart Tender Tomato Chicken!

Ever since I made that turkey for T-day, I've been all into fowl! I switched over to chicken because it's more reasonably priced and WAY easier to transport. My fave is dark meat, so I've been having Becky pick up thighs or drum sticks or whole legs. I can't help it...I'm a leg guy...;-)

The chicken is really hitting the spot. It's easy to make, healthy for Lymies, and you can turn the broth you cooked it in into yummy soup in a bout 60 seconds flat.

The Healing Compassion of Father Michael Bassano

"The spirit of compassion goes beyond language, culture, tradition...and makes us one with all living beings." -- Father Michael Bassano

We with Lyme disease know what it is to be sick. We know what it is to fall ill and not get better. We know what it is to be abandoned. I look at the patients in this video and I know some of what they go through. It's true, I don't know what it's like to be almost dead from AIDS. I don't know what that is like because the physical effects of AIDS are different than those of Lyme. What I do know is what it's like to be bedridden. I know what it's like to be written off by family, to be abandoned and have no one.

Prayer of Forgiveness

Because we the afflicted get persecuted, because we the afflicted need a way to heal our hearts.

The 29 Day Giving Challenge

Today I found out about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. I immediately felt so good about doing the challenge that I decided to start it today! Why do I feel so good about doing it? Why am I starting it right away? Why am I posting it on my Lyme blog? I'll tell you...

How do I make it to the other side of this damn disease?

I don't know about you, but the above question is probably my most popular thought since I got too sick to work or leave the house very often. It's the place my mind goes when I feel isolated and therefore depressed and therefore generally unhappy and therefore purposeless and therefore...hopeless. The above thought has ultimately been a hopeless thought for me, not because it is inherently a hopeless thought, but because for the last two years I've been thinking it and coming up without an answer. Rather, I suppose it would be more accurate to say I've been coming up with only one answer and that is: I don't have an effing clue.