Miss C -
It sounds like your immune system is working fine if you aren't getting the colds going around! The flu has been reported here where I live already and I'm already getting nervous and carrying my hand sanitizer with me!! Last year I managed to get not only the intestinal flu, but came down with the head & chest flu 3 days after!!
Carrie.
Your immune system should recover just find once it's not so overwhelmed with the Tick-borne infections. I know mine has certainly gotten better! Even though I managed to get the flu twice last year, I didn't get a lot of other colds and things! That was a first for me!
There are always things we can do to help our immune systems also. Taking Vitamin C, being sure to eat healthily and drink plenty good water. We can also take things such as echinacea, zinc, and a few other things - but I would check with your LLMD to be sure those things won't interfere with your treatment in any way!
AS for the cognitive issues seen with TBI's, I can be a good example. I literally couldn't follow written or oral instructions, couldn't even follow a pattern (think assembling kabobs), or even face any kind of decision making. Now that I've been in treatment I can able to not only do those things with some success, but I have had a lot of my memory return to me!!! I had trouble getting the names of my children right at one point in time and had resorted to only calling hubby "honey" rather than get his name wrong as well!
So hang in there!! Treatment times vary for each of us, and the rate in which each thing comes back to us varies, but we can all have hope of recovering most if not all of what we have lost!!! I'm sure of it!!!
