I don’t have a picture of any of my doctors to insert here… even if I did, I would have a hard time choosing, since there are so many! Over the past week and a bit, most of my energy has been spent on one doctor or another. 🙂 For instance,

• last Thursday I had to go to what is apparently called an IME (Independent medical exam??) at St. Michael’s hospital. The infectious disease specialist there seemed to know very little about lyme disease. Even though I could barely walk in, he didn’t seem to really fathom the level of fatigue that I was experiencing until he had to try to get me to move my muscles and resist various forces. Yes, lyme disease is controversial, political, and not widely known or supported in public health and among medical doctors. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation is a great place to look for current research and up-to-date understandings. Opinions are very slowly evolving.

• this Tuesday I spent the morning at the Sunnybrook Hospital ALS/Neuromuscular clinic. My main doctor is looking for other complications of lyme disease – really, a second opinion for some of the neurological stuff. I can expect another MRI, EMG, etc… over the next number of months. “Oh, goody…” I had to be wheeled by a volunteer from one end of the hospital to the other to do blood work. He thought I looked 34! That made my day.