We had a good summer, God blessed us richly despite ourselves. We did not get all the summer chores done as one health issue after another overcame our time and energy.
So I will make an attempt to start over at this address and see if I cannot move forward with it. If I fail to keep up then please pray for me because I will be busy or too tired to blog.
Back about mid-summer I began to realize that our oldest daughter, who was serving as a caretaker to her grandfather, was continuing to slide into a further state of not-being- well. What we thought was the issue was not improving with treatment. Instead she was getting worse. So after several years of trying to ignore what “it might be” we began to face the reality that the confirmed case of Lyme at age 6 was coming back to haunt her.
Lyme and its other vector-borne co-infections is a frightening world. Sadly, many are misdiagnosed with Fibromyalgia, MS, Chronic Fatigue, Autism, Adrenal/Thyroid problems, etc., etc. It affects everyone differently with some underlying similarities; the nervous system, the gut, and the muscles. It causes pain and neurological problems that are manifested in many ways. We have been told that it is treatable and the possibility of total recovery is there, yet there is a long road ahead of us.
As I learn more about Lyme and the co-infections, I am beginning to suspect that other members of the family have it as well. This is not an easy thing to consider.
So life is changing for us at the farm and so perhaps will the original intent I had for this blog.
The two daughters that were living with the grandfather have moved home while hubby is with his dad preparing him to move in with us. (That is going to take longer than we thought because the day they were supposed to come home, my father-in-law broke his hip…) This is going to be a huge transition for us particularly since we don’t really have an extra room. But then we have always been able to adapt fairly well and since that is what we are called to do at this time, then we will do it and just consider it another one of those seasons of our lives.
I have been moving things around, working on de-cluttering, and overall deep cleaning which was needed after a long hard summer. I need to make more space and make life easier for me. So I have boxed up a lot for storage and loaded up the trunk of the car a couple of times with stuff for the Goodwill.
Fall has fallen and winter feels like it is trying to push its way in. I can say that I am not ready for it this year. But then we can only take life one day at a time and either kick against it or be content with God’s blessings. So I put my shoes when I go outside and try to remember to hang my coat up when I come inside…..