Lyme Disease and Your Brain
I know my brain. It whips out four blog entries and responds to ten emails before 9 a.m. and multi-tasks the entire time. I chat with the kids, answer the phone and make a to do list for that day’s work tasks while I’m typing away. So, I knew right away that Lyme Disease was affecting my ability to think clearly and work effectively. Suddenly, a few morning tasks were taking half the day. And don’t even ask about freelance writing. It is a huge effort to get one 400 word article written in 2 hours when it used to take about a half hour. (These are how to articles and I’ve already completed the project I’m writing about the day before.) Then, I have to read through and edit the article twice to find all the sentences I started and left hanging, etc.
So, despite the fact that family members claimed there was no difference, I knew Lyme Disease was affecting my ability to think clearly and process things quickly. Sure enough, the Lyme Disease Research Center says:
Lyme disease may affect the brain in many ways, the most common of which is a disturbance in thinking (cognition).
Oh, joy. I’m making lists out the wazoo and that helps a lot, except sometimes I forget what I was going to write down before I get it written. It seems a bit better this week, though. I actually got two how to articles done today.
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