About this Blog

~Hi, my name is Courtney. I was a full time college student, starting to be a dancer, and used to work with kids part time, living on my own until my illness disabled me.
~I became sick in 2005. I created this blog in the summer of 2006 to record my "headache" diary and to see if anyone finds it interesting.
~12/2006 I lost my job then after, failed a year of college.
~2/2007 Dx Lyme Disease with Bartonella: prescribed 8 months of oral antibiotics. I'm not even sure if I ever had the Lyme Disease.
~11/2007 The doctor took me off medicines while I was still improving but not fully recovered.
~6/2008 Dx Chiari I Malformation by a neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills.
~8/2008 Decompression and Lamenectomy helped 80% of my problems.
~2/2009 Dx Hypermobility by an Orthopedic Surgeon/School Doc: Started PT, dancing, going to school and working.
~6/2009 Started working full time as an Infant-Toddler teacher, which requires lifting. Dancing part time, maybe I'll finish school eventually...lol
~12/2009 Dx Chronic Sinusitis: Stopped dancing due to constant infections.
~2/2010 Sinus Surgery & complication: Severe Epistaxis: Became severely anemic.
~3/2010: Dx Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: by Geneticist
~4/2011: Switched jobs, now work at a Pre-K teacher for 3 and 4 year olds. Less lifting!
~5/2011: Started PT and exercising again

Saturday, February 21, 2009

to be honest

i feel like im getting worse. my eyes have been hurting for 3-4 weeks now, ive tried lots of things to help it and it seems like its only improving slightly. now tonight my upper spine feels sensitive. i'm trying to figure out the cause, if its me or what. i dont know. im going to keep track of my symptoms daily for now on.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just found your blog and I want to thank you for chronicling your story and symptoms so honestly. I'll keep reading. And I wish you many good days.

8:21 AM
Anonymous said...

Hi Courtney....no you're not crazy. I am a chronic lyme sufferer and I believe that alyme infection of the brain can be one of the causes of chiari malformation. I do not feel it is just genetics or that you have to be born that way at birth. I feel that a lyme infection of the brain can swell the brain, which forces it down into the spinal canal.

If you want to visit my blog which has to do with lyme, the link is www.lymesentinel.blogspot.com

10:25 AM

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