When a Mom - the CEO of the family corporation - gets sick, everything crashes.
Well, at least in my house. The laundry doesn't get done, the house doesn't get cleaned, the dog and the frog don't get fed, meals are lousy, I forget all the extra curricular things the kids are supposed to be doing, and soon it looks like someone took a leaf blower to the inside of the house, leaving mountains of crap everywhere.
I have advanced Lyme Disease.
And maybe my kids DID take the leaf blower to the inside of the house the other day....but because of my Lyme, I don't recall if they did.
I remember having the tick back in June, having a red sore spot on the back of my head. But I forgot to do something about it. Why?
Because I am the CEO/Chief Everything Officer and on top of doing EVERYTHING I was also dealing with horrible tooth pain, a root canal, company from out of town, kidney infection, kidney stones with horrible pain and the realization that I am 40. By the time I got done with my dental appointments, my other doctor appointment and had the capacity to think "hm, I think I had a deer tick", the burning sore was gone. And so the tick was a distant memory....until trip #3 to the ER.
I know I am lucky that an ER doctor was smart enough to identify all the symptoms I was presenting. Some people go for years before someone figures it out.
I wish it was LIME Disease. Because that goes well with a CEO. That wonderful, fresh green goes with just about everything in life. A cheerful, fun color. The color of my dining room and living room. The color of a cool margarita.
Lyme, on the other hand, does NOT go well with a CEO. It takes away everything I need in order to be the CEO. It is ugly, debilitating and for many a lifelong battle.
It has been hard for my husband and family to realize that Mom AKA CEO can't do everything right now. Multitasking is just out of the question for the time being. I guess they will figure it out sooner or later when they have no clothes left to wear or no more food to eat...whichever comes first.
Well, at least in my house. The laundry doesn't get done, the house doesn't get cleaned, the dog and the frog don't get fed, meals are lousy, I forget all the extra curricular things the kids are supposed to be doing, and soon it looks like someone took a leaf blower to the inside of the house, leaving mountains of crap everywhere.
I have advanced Lyme Disease.
And maybe my kids DID take the leaf blower to the inside of the house the other day....but because of my Lyme, I don't recall if they did.
I remember having the tick back in June, having a red sore spot on the back of my head. But I forgot to do something about it. Why?
Because I am the CEO/Chief Everything Officer and on top of doing EVERYTHING I was also dealing with horrible tooth pain, a root canal, company from out of town, kidney infection, kidney stones with horrible pain and the realization that I am 40. By the time I got done with my dental appointments, my other doctor appointment and had the capacity to think "hm, I think I had a deer tick", the burning sore was gone. And so the tick was a distant memory....until trip #3 to the ER.
I know I am lucky that an ER doctor was smart enough to identify all the symptoms I was presenting. Some people go for years before someone figures it out.
I wish it was LIME Disease. Because that goes well with a CEO. That wonderful, fresh green goes with just about everything in life. A cheerful, fun color. The color of my dining room and living room. The color of a cool margarita.
Lyme, on the other hand, does NOT go well with a CEO. It takes away everything I need in order to be the CEO. It is ugly, debilitating and for many a lifelong battle.
It has been hard for my husband and family to realize that Mom AKA CEO can't do everything right now. Multitasking is just out of the question for the time being. I guess they will figure it out sooner or later when they have no clothes left to wear or no more food to eat...whichever comes first.