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There should be a sign on our front door: Enter At Your Own Risk. When good friend offered to drop off dinner this evening, I told her she should leave it at the curb and run away...quickly. Illness has struck our household...and seems to want to stay awhile.

Now, both of our kids always look a little unhealthy to me...dark circles, very pale skin...but lately I have been attributing that to Lyme and hoping treatment will turn them around. Now, my son was VERY sick off and on for a year, starting when he was about 1 1/2 years old. He was sick at least once a month. We could not catch a break. Since my immune system was so shot (I know now it is because of Lyme), I'd get everything he got and sometimes 10 times worse (I will never forget the stomach bug that landed me in the ER.)

But since then, we have been pretty lucky (knock on wood.) My son has had a cold or two, but they are rare and usually didn't last too long. My one-year old has only been sick once, that I can recall. I attribute that to being diligent about what we eat (organic, lots of fruit and veggies, little sugar), good vitamins (Juice Plus, Probiotics, Calcium, Vitamin D, Omega, Colloidal Silver), frequent hand washing and visits to the chiropractor twice a month.

In the last couple of months, I've even changed our diet...no dairy, no wheat and much less sugar. Since dairy, wheat and sugar tend to weaken the immune system, Lyme experts recommend cutting them out of your diet so that your body can better fight the Lyme bacteria, hopefully keeping symptoms at bay and and giving you a better chance at getting into remission.

Unfortunately, though, we couldn't escape illness forever. Our children have been sick for over two weeks now: low grade fevers, high fevers hovering around 104, runny noses and, most recently, my oldest with vomiting and diarrhea. I wasn't too worried when the fevers came on. I know their immune systems are weak as well, but because of our track record these past two years, I was hoping for the best. Well, two and a half weeks later and we seem to be getting worse, not better.

I am so worried about them! They seem so fragile to me. In addition, my oldest has seemed a bit sad lately and today he seems downright depressed. It's a combination of being sick for so long and the traumatic experience he had today getting blood taken for Lyme tests. It was a nightmare.

My daughter is asleep with a fever and a runny  nose and my son just started vomiting again. My stomach is starting to churn...and not in a good way. Here's hoping this is the last night of it. I don't know how much more we can take!Be a Fan