Explaining what chronic Lyme disease feels like is almost impossible. Some people can comprehend the physical symptoms to a degree, the crushing fatigue, violent pain, migraines, nausea, ect, but the haunting sense of invasion, a kind of warfare with some invisible force, is not easy to articulate, not without questioning my sanity anyway.

It took me a long time to realise this wasn’t melodramatic or metaphorical. There is a reason chronic Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia feel like a physical, psychological, and even spiritual assault….

Bible verses about being tested, not as silver-linings or coping mechanisms, but surrender mechanisms I and others I know have found truth and solace in through the battle with chronic Lyme disease ….