- J
Howdy y'all I'm Sarah,
As some of my friends and family may know in 2018 I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme disease, for those of you that don't know here's my story:
In the early spring through the summer of 2017 I left my job temporarily working as an EMT at Eskenazi hospital on a family emergency to help care for my grandfather in California who was placed on home hospice care with cancer in his brain and lungs my family and I and many loved ones cared for him for 7 weeks until he went to be with our Lord.
During that spring I had started college towards an RN degree/ respiratory therapist degree which I never came back to due to my health.
During that time of stress, sadness and limited sleep my Lyme disease (which I didn't know I had at that time as it was dormant) started to flare up.
So when I returned to work at the hospital in July of 2017 I started to feel very sick daily, I wasn't able to walk without feeling dizzy, I couldn't see straight to drive the ambulance so I usually opted for the other tech to drive and I would be with our patient, my heart would race and pound when I was sitting down, I had trouble breathing, I couldn't walk without directing myself to do so, I was fatigued, brain fog to the point I couldn't comprehend much and I couldn't remember my sweet nurse friends by name who I daily loved to work with.
I also started to have severe anxiety issues and attacks, mood swings and rage, depression snuck up on me before I knew it and then started the night seizures the list of symptoms kept growing, so I went to find a Dr.
I had heard about Lyme disease from a friend who was treating for it and sought out there advice after much research.
During the wait to meet this Dr. I had to leave the hospital due to the stress of the hours and how emotionally exhausted I was (that was one job with wonderful people that I still dearly miss)
The road following my diagnoses has been one of great joy and disappointment, I seem to find myself feeling so much better while on antibiotics only to slip back once I finish taking them. The supplements help a ton in many ways but for the anxiety and depression that still haunt me and the fatigue they don't do much for my day to day life.
It's a constant battle that I have prayed to go away so I may once more live a normal life as a wife, employee and one day a Mother.
Recently my husband and I found out that with my Lyme disease it can be spread to my baby if we should have children, if I am on antibiotics for my whole pregnancy then our baby shouldn't become sick and have any issues.
(Being on antibiotics that long isn't good)
We also found out that I had the Lyme disease in my red blood cells which means I can't get rid of it ever.
With Lyme comes many co infections and those can also be passed to the fetus and cause miscarriages, heart defects, down syndrome and the list can go on.
My husband and I have been trying to decide what we should do as we've always wanted to have a large family and it just seemed like it wouldn't be something we should do to take the chance of our child to be born with life threatening health issues.
I was very sad and depressed by this but my husband encouraged me and said "there has to be a cure for this."
The Lord blessed us with dear friends who told us about their sister who had Chronic Lyme for 7 years and successfully got treated at a clinic in Florida and for 5 years now she has been symptom free! Praise God!
She said 6 months after her second treatment she was completely better.
After much research on our part and talking with our Dr. We got the green light to fly to St. Augustine Florida for three days of treatment. Depending on their scheduling we should be able to go down there in late February or early March.
We are so overjoyed and Pray this may be where the good Lord will send us so I can be cured and we can start a family in the near future!
The unfortunate thing is that this clinic does not take insurance so we will be spending anywhere from $1,500 - $3,000 for treatment while we are there plus food and lodging. They will be running tests on the first day to see what I will need for treatment and the next two days will be treatment, that's why the price is so unsure at this time. All the money we receive will go towards the cost of my treatment, any funds we receive from here that will not be needed for treatment will go into savings account to help us start a family in the future.
I still can't believe this may be the way that my husband and I can start a family in good conscience knowing that our children (Lord willing) will have a better chance of having a normal and healthy childhood.
If there is anyway you could help support us through this time in prayer and /or a donation we would be beyond thankful and blessed!
Thanks so much!
May the Lord bless you!
As some of my friends and family may know in 2018 I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme disease, for those of you that don't know here's my story:
In the early spring through the summer of 2017 I left my job temporarily working as an EMT at Eskenazi hospital on a family emergency to help care for my grandfather in California who was placed on home hospice care with cancer in his brain and lungs my family and I and many loved ones cared for him for 7 weeks until he went to be with our Lord.
During that spring I had started college towards an RN degree/ respiratory therapist degree which I never came back to due to my health.
During that time of stress, sadness and limited sleep my Lyme disease (which I didn't know I had at that time as it was dormant) started to flare up.
So when I returned to work at the hospital in July of 2017 I started to feel very sick daily, I wasn't able to walk without feeling dizzy, I couldn't see straight to drive the ambulance so I usually opted for the other tech to drive and I would be with our patient, my heart would race and pound when I was sitting down, I had trouble breathing, I couldn't walk without directing myself to do so, I was fatigued, brain fog to the point I couldn't comprehend much and I couldn't remember my sweet nurse friends by name who I daily loved to work with.
I also started to have severe anxiety issues and attacks, mood swings and rage, depression snuck up on me before I knew it and then started the night seizures the list of symptoms kept growing, so I went to find a Dr.
I had heard about Lyme disease from a friend who was treating for it and sought out there advice after much research.
During the wait to meet this Dr. I had to leave the hospital due to the stress of the hours and how emotionally exhausted I was (that was one job with wonderful people that I still dearly miss)
The road following my diagnoses has been one of great joy and disappointment, I seem to find myself feeling so much better while on antibiotics only to slip back once I finish taking them. The supplements help a ton in many ways but for the anxiety and depression that still haunt me and the fatigue they don't do much for my day to day life.
It's a constant battle that I have prayed to go away so I may once more live a normal life as a wife, employee and one day a Mother.
Recently my husband and I found out that with my Lyme disease it can be spread to my baby if we should have children, if I am on antibiotics for my whole pregnancy then our baby shouldn't become sick and have any issues.
(Being on antibiotics that long isn't good)
We also found out that I had the Lyme disease in my red blood cells which means I can't get rid of it ever.
With Lyme comes many co infections and those can also be passed to the fetus and cause miscarriages, heart defects, down syndrome and the list can go on.
My husband and I have been trying to decide what we should do as we've always wanted to have a large family and it just seemed like it wouldn't be something we should do to take the chance of our child to be born with life threatening health issues.
I was very sad and depressed by this but my husband encouraged me and said "there has to be a cure for this."
The Lord blessed us with dear friends who told us about their sister who had Chronic Lyme for 7 years and successfully got treated at a clinic in Florida and for 5 years now she has been symptom free! Praise God!
She said 6 months after her second treatment she was completely better.
After much research on our part and talking with our Dr. We got the green light to fly to St. Augustine Florida for three days of treatment. Depending on their scheduling we should be able to go down there in late February or early March.
We are so overjoyed and Pray this may be where the good Lord will send us so I can be cured and we can start a family in the near future!
The unfortunate thing is that this clinic does not take insurance so we will be spending anywhere from $1,500 - $3,000 for treatment while we are there plus food and lodging. They will be running tests on the first day to see what I will need for treatment and the next two days will be treatment, that's why the price is so unsure at this time. All the money we receive will go towards the cost of my treatment, any funds we receive from here that will not be needed for treatment will go into savings account to help us start a family in the future.
I still can't believe this may be the way that my husband and I can start a family in good conscience knowing that our children (Lord willing) will have a better chance of having a normal and healthy childhood.
If there is anyway you could help support us through this time in prayer and /or a donation we would be beyond thankful and blessed!
Thanks so much!
May the Lord bless you!