Stories of my life
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The Invisible Battle
I’m lying on the couch, contemplating how often we take our health for granted. Sometimes I mourn the girl I was before this, before I found out Lyme was the reason I’m not myself, why I’ve been constantly exhausted and experiencing weird symptoms for the past three years. It’s evening. I am one with the couch, my legs…
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The Day My Salt Peeling Got Stolen at the Sauna
For the past few months, I’ve started a new ritual: detoxing in the sauna. I’m battling Lyme disease, and the antibiotic treatment is anything but a spa-like experience for my body. Still, life has a strange way of sprinkling small, absurd moments even into the hardest chapters. This is the story of going to a sauna with a brand-new salt…