Chronic Badass Lyme Survivor T-Shirts

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone,

I am posting this for a fellow Lymie. She created these awesome " Chronic Badass

Lyme Survivor " T-shirts. She is selling them to help pay for her medical bills.

Here is where you can check out the T-shirt design:

http://infectiousoptimism.blogspot.com/p/badass-t-shirt-shop.html

The whole idea to make these shirts came up when wrote on her fabulous

blog " 25 Reasons Why Being a Lyme Patient May Automatically Make You a Badass "

Here are the reasons:

1. While some people have a comic book collection or collect rare stamps, you

collect infections, and happen to have more than a loaded petri dish.

2. You take more than 55 pills in one day, and can swallow 6-10 at one time.

3. When you fill out a " symptom survey " at the doctor's office, you begrudgingly

check off 47 of the 60 symptoms listed. If you were being completely honest with

yourself, you'd probably check off 52.

4. You've opted to have a portacatheter surgically placed in your chest...while

you were awake.

5. You've given so much blood at one given time that the nurse had to switch

veins because the one in use " dried up " .

6. A surgeon has said " Oops " while performing surgery on you...and you were

awake to hear it.

7. You've swallowed a camera, drank radioactive dye or have been injected with

something that temporarily made you glow.

8. It has been proven that your stomach attempts to digest backwards, and food

magically travels upward rather than down.

9. You've been able to fill an entire day with meals despite having more food

allergies than you can count on your fingers and toes....and your Mom's fingers

and toes.

10. You've peed just about every color of the rainbow, except blue.

11. You've juiced more than 7 vegetables at a time, and drank it. You have the

tomato seeds on your ceiling to prove it.

12. Your spleen and/or liver has blown up, much like an inflated balloon.

13. Most girls don't leave the house without making sure their lip gloss is

safely tucked into their purse. In your purse, you've got an epipen resting next

to your lip balm and a mask folded up by your sunglasses.

14. Your liver enzymes have elevated to 10 times what was considered within the

" normal " range, and you never once puked.

15. You've had a head to toe rash which elicited a " whoa " from a doctor.

16. You've been diagnosed with a condition that nurses actually have to ask you

how to spell.

17. You followed orders without question when you were told to shoot ozone in

places where you never imagined it'd belong, or when you were informed to use

coffee in a way that is rather unconventional, to say the least.

18. You find yourself tapping your finger to the beat of your heart

palpitations.

19. You've had injections of liquid thicker than maple syrup shot into your

stomach, thigh, lower back, or in regions you'd rather not disclose, and you

didn't even cry...or receive a lollypop.

20. You've blacked out in the bathtub or in the shower, and you didn't drown.

21. You had your first colonoscopy before your grandparents had their first

colonoscopy.

22. You've had an IV bag full of something that an average person would never

even consider injecting into their veins, nor will they ever have to.

23. While watching Grey's Anatomy, you realize that you have the same blood

pressure as the patient who's excessively bleeding on the screen.

24. Your heart rate has either been half of what it should be, or double what's

considered safe, but you still managed to get up and make lunch.

25. You've been sick every day of your life for more than 4 years and still

manage to be optimistic enough, and brave enough, to wake up every morning and

do it all again.

Here is the full article:

http://infectiousoptimism.blogspot.com/p/chronic-badass-article.html

Anyway is also doing a project for those who buy a shirt. She wants

pictures of lymies in their shirts, showing off their badass attitude.

So yeah just wanted to pass this on. =)

Makayla