Gone so long....

I cannot believe it has been more than two months since I have posted anything. It really makes me sad to think of the events I have missed putting into our family history forever. But posting is not the only thing that has had to get lain aside... for now. In the last five months, the rest of the Dustin family has been diagnosed with lyme disease. We have all joined Hannah in the ranks of the tired and the sick. Some more than others. Needless to say, it has been extremely challenging to keep up with all the doctors visits, prescriptions, supplements, crisis, ill health, school, church, friends, and life in general.

We drive Hannah all the way to Connecticut to see a lyme specialist every 3 months and the rest of us drive an hour and a half to a doctor in Virginia.

Every day, we all take countless pills and supplements.

Every few weeks or so, someone needs a blood draw.

Several times a week we need to pick up prescriptions, now at three different locations.

We rarely get the school portion of our day started before ten or eleven o'clock.

Most of us battle insomnia and don't sleep well. Again, particularly Hannah.

While we don't want lyme disease to define our life and who we are, there are sometimes that is unavoidable. Sometimes it takes it's place in the background of life and we almost feel like a normal family, and sometimes it is all we can talk about or think about as issues move to the forefront. It is a physical, emotional, and spiritual battle. Daily.

So, posting on my dear little blog has taken a back seat, and I will attempt to summarize and catch up on at least the major events over the last months. Meanwhile, here are some pictures of what our medicine cabinet and counter look like. We are being taken over by pills!!

Hannah looking with enthusiasm at her morning pile of pills...