Thank you everyone for your support and advice! Seems like so many people are dealing with this, and yes, there are a lot with severe problems! Maybe I'm lucky that my infection was detected early! Looks like I still have to learn a lot about this disease. Ordered a little info book for starters today.

I'm still not doing well, actually this is not a good day at all. I'm feeling so ill!! But it's hard to tell whether this comes from lyme disease, Hashimoto's, stress, or anything else.

Looks like this is not a good time for my family: My stepfather, Reinhold, fell down some stone steps and obviously hurt his ribs (don't know if they are broken because he refused to go to the doctor! ) and is in severe pain, my brother-in-law is in hospital with an intestinal obstruction and will probably have surgery (it's for the second time this year that this happened, and it happened before; he has the Crohn disease), and my mother will have her knee joint replaced in November, she can hardly walk. Rough times!

Kirsten