Dear diary — me and the bee

I remember when I was 12, and I got my first diary. It was silky white with a little dancing bear on it. A diary was the thing every girl wanted at the time. I remember trying to make a point to write in it every night. Digging through boxes in the basement I found it!

My first entry started like this- “Dear Diary or Notebook, today is December 7 it is 12:00 midnight. Today is my birthday, and I had friends over, Colleen, Liz, Kim, Wendy, Shelia, and Cathy. We had pizza dinner and played many games, it was great having all my friends over. I got many presents, and this is one right now. This diary….” Pretty awesome to read through it and get the perspective of my life at the time. I even saved my ticket stub to my first rock concert….. Black Sabbath!!!! Oh and also I was boy crazy… some things never change.

I decided to keep a journal through my journey doing Bee Venom Therapy. Christian made me this awesome body stamp so that I could map out my stings.

I track my daily symptoms, my daily detox routine, what reactions I get to the stings, what I ate, and just plain life stuff. I can also track how many stings I’ve done to date. Because Lyme makes my brain foggy and can affect my memory at times I need all the help I can get. I think it will be cool to look back in time at all of this.
I’d also like to add that when I sting certain areas of my spine I’ve gotten super interesting reactions on the body which correlate to the meridian. Looking at a spine chart, it's amazing how certain areas of the spine link directly to a different part of the body. For example, while stinging the T7 area on the spine which links to the pancreas, duodenum, stomach, liver, spleen, gallbladder, and peritoneum I had strange abdomen pains directly following treatment. Here is a diary entry from a session once I had reached four stings.
“Wednesday 2/3/16/ week three day two - Stung at 5 PM- Major Herx one hour after stinging. I felt a wave of hell shoot over me. I am shaky, and I have a sub temperature of 97.2 (Lyme loves to keep your body cold. It cannot tolerate hot temps- most people with Lyme have very low body temperatures and are generally cold all the time) I had a panic attack, air hunger, sternum and chest pain and I’m uneasy. I have slight facial numbness, and I’m cold as hell! I have tooth pain in my molars, and I’m agitated. This lasted for about 4 hours intensely and then semi-intense through the night. Did not sleep great.”
What a ride.