Settled in Germany and back online...YEAH !!

October 14, 2000

Hi all,

We are finally settled in our tiny base housing in Germany. It is very

beautiful over here and we have been able to start taking a few day trips on

the weekends ( I let my husband do most of the driving because the autobahn

still scares me). I am hoping to do much more. I still don't know a lick of

German, but I am starting to get the money down...great exchange rate now

(2.20 to the dollar as of today)...this is very good for shopping.

I am so glad to finally have internet access again, I have really missed

you all and reading the daily messages. We have a different ISP now, but we

kept our AOL acct., so we can still receive mail at the same address. Sounds

like a lot has been happening since I left in Aug. and I have a lot of

catching up to do. The move took a lot out of me and I have had an increase

in problems. The leg tremors have gotten so bad they actually wake me some

nights and they have now spread to my head (luckily this isn't to bad yet). I

am having more problems with pain when I walk or stand for to long and the

front part of my feet actually start to go numb. I think my general

circulation has gotten worse, or at least it feels that way. I am hoping that

this is all just a big flare and as we settle in more my body will settle

down. My primary DR sent me to a leading German Neurologist and he did more

test (he is the first dr to do an EEG and I had plenty of tremors for him...I

hope it shows on this test). I still don't h

ave any results back and I have no idea what he has planned. Pretty much all

he said to me is " you present a very interesting and challenging case " , I am

not sure if that statement bodes well for his final DX, oh yeah, he also

asked me which version of lyme did I have the American or German (for some

bazaar reason I found this amusing).....ticks are very bad here, too. I will

keep you posted.

Hopefully now that we are starting to get back into some kind of routine

I will be able to start conversing more. If anyone is a night owl look for me

online because we are 6 hours ahead of eastcoast time. I am trying to setup

the AOL IM so that I can get my buddy list back up and running. I have really

missed you all and am so glad to be back with you. I hope to talk more soon.

Your Lyme Friend,

in Stuttgart, Germany

P.S. How is Marta doing ?

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