[fabsroman]

Skeet,

I have been reading up on it, and my wife has too. She is the medical expert in the house since she is a pharmacist. She has also told me about the 6 to 8 weeks of IV treatment in the hospital, which scares the crap out of me. What really bothers me is that I think I know more about Lyme disease than my doctors.

Whenever I have a client that comes to me with something I only know a little about, I make sure I sit down and learn everything I can about it. I just do not get that feeling from my doctors. In fact, I feel like I need to create a time line for them every time I go to see them because they are too busy to look over my file and understand it for themselves and/or they see so many patients that they cannot keep my history straight in their head. I'm also sitting here wondering if it makes more monetary sense for them to keep me sick instead of curing me. I have gone to the infectious disease specialist 4 times now which has cost me $140 out of pocket. Mind you, I wouldn't be complaining about the money if I thought things were going well.

Tonight, the ankle pain seems just a tad worse than last night. I'm going to see what it is like on Monday and call my infectious disease specialist if it gets the least bit worse.