Healing for Jaden Klein.
Hi my name is Jessamy Day and my friend Jaden Klein has been sick for too long. She’s been fighting so hard and at only 18 almost 19 years old, she wants to have her life. It all started 8 years ago in the summer of 2013. Her symptoms were: on and off infections, very hard swollen lymph nodes, constant ear infections one after another, fatigue, pressure/plugged head and serious stomach problems. Over the years it has gotten chronic and more severe. It’s a constant battle. Now, she’s developed allergies to many things and most foods. She needs antihistamines just to eat.
Its like a flu that will not go away. In 2013, Jaden had tons of blood work with nothing showing except WBC(white blood cells) was not normal. She hadn’t been tested for Lyme disease when the initial infection started. A doctor put her on thyroid pills and a salve to use for the huge open wounds on the back of her head and neck. Both medications did nothing to help. The doctor was stumped at what to do. As a child, Jaden was forced to continue to try to live a normal life despite it all. Her body was strong enough to keep the disease somewhat dormant. She did not have many worsening symptoms until 2018, when the disease drastically came to the surface triggered by an injury.
Jaden was in a car accident where she got a concussion and hurt her neck and spine. Terrible symptoms re-surfaced and new ones began; fatigue, debilitating joints, bone and muscle pain, stiffness, swelling, angioedema, chronic inflammation that mirrored Rheumatoid arthritis, chronic autoimmune problems, dizziness/vertigo, extreme burning brain/headaches/blurred vision, plugged full pressure in ears, unable to focus her eyes to read, 5 months of constant diarrhea and lost 40lbs. It was so bad she couldn’t get up without nausea and sometimes vomiting from the non stop dizziness. Her brain had such a pressure that it felt like it was burning. And horrible brain fog. Throughout the years of 2018-2019, Jaden was seen by multiple doctors, specialist after specialist as the disease was spiraling out of control. Test after test it was definitely not MS. She was prescribed anti vertigo medication which only caused her body more harm. We now know that she has severe sensitivities to many medications. Being caused by autoimmune.
Jaden was a strong, independent and able girl who was physically active, loves nature, loves animals, good at cross country running, done farm work, welding, hiking, swimming, skating, snowboarding, ball, skiing, biking, quading, and taking care of her younger sister lots. Then, in 2018/19, she became almost completely bed ridden and felt stuck in a never-ending dizzy flu with her muscle and joints wasting away. Her joints red swollen and inflamed, Brain fog and memory loss was horrible plus she began to have way worse allergies causing more damage and inflammation.
Her family and friends suspected it was Lyme for the reason jaden had always been outdoors and grew up on a farm where she had bitten many times. In 2019 her family got her blood work sent to a lab in Germany and it came back saying Jaden was positive for Borrelia(Lyme)and Epstein-Barr virus. Then in March 2020 a test at Lyme Mexico showing positive for Borrelia again and another co infection Ehrlichia Chaffeensis. She has a low CD57+NK(natural killer cells)and T lymphocytes. In chronic disease and the number is shown to be below normal. it indicates chronic immune suppression. She has white matter in her MRI brain scans, which comes from chronic Lyme, or MS, Acute Disseminated, old age, Encephalomyelitis and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. She continues to lose weight, causing her to be frail and worn but she is still fighting with all she has!
Even once jaden and family finally had a definite answer with the blood tests her family paid for and got sent to Germany she was denied to see a Lyme specialist or any treatment in Canada. This is the case for almost all Lyme specialists in Canada, along with very little funding on the testing and treatment, and lack of awareness. It's terrible that people cannot be helped or even recognized as ill by the health care of their own country.
Then our citizens (Canadian's)are left with no choice but to travel for treatment and pay anywhere from $50,000 - $150,000 just to help treat the Disease. After that they have to continue with weekly treatments (also not paid for by Canadian health insurance) and costly supplements to take daily.
In 2020, Jaden had treatment that saved her life. Treatments were intense and not covered by insurance. Jadens family paid money they had in savings.Her family will do anything to have their jaden back but we are asking for help as her battle with Lyme disease is not over yet and she needs the treatment again. The long journey ended up taking her to Lyme Mexico Clinic where she got a list of intense daily IV treatment for almost 3 months that was costly but addressing the underlying infections and toxins. Treatment included hypothermia sessions, Dendritic cell vaccine, IV antibiotics, photo pherisis, Exosome Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy, ozone, hyperbaric ozone, vitamin infusions and several other methods of treatment.
She had a few months of her life and sort of a remission but Nearly a year later after that intense treatment she's just as sick as she was in 2018/19 with chronic Lyme disease and needing the treatment again. Jaden has talked with the doctor that treated her at Lyme Mexico and he’s willing to treat her again.
Jaden is hoping that her story of this long journey will bring awareness to the complex disease and complications of chronic disease and help others who suffer find a way and answer. Any donations we receive will go towards her treatment and the support means everything to jaden, her family and friends because she needs her good health. every bit helps! Even just a share.