Worst Word in the World

A Blue Hound Beagles Blog AKA when-not-writing…

IDIOPATHIC.

We probably all have our Worst Words. That one’s mine.

It means, roughly, disease without known cause.*

*PS That we have no idea how to treat because really, nothing truly works and good luck with that.

Over the years, all of my Lyme symptoms have been idiopathic (and now that they’re not, no one knows how to fix them anyway). And since I was in fifth grade (which is a mighty long time indeed, now), my dad’s mounting inexplicable neurolo...