Help us cure our beloved daughter Caitlin McLean
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Help us cure our beloved daughter Caitlin McLean
We, as her family, we ask you from the bottoms of our hearts; please help us fight to cure our daughter.
Lyme infection, if not caught and treated early, can be devastating. It compromises the immune system. The tick bite can bring on several different other types of serious infections. It can leave a person weak, bedridden, with little quality of life.
This is the state of our daughter is in. It kills us to watch her suffering each new day.
Effective treatments of Lyme in the early stages is a common offering. It's covered by insurance. Lyme that goes undetected or misdiagnosed requires specific treatments from medical specialists. These treatments are rarely covered by health insurance.
Lyme and it’s co-infections can often go undetected. They share many common symptoms with other conditions. And as such, Lyme often sneaks under the radar and the conditions continue to worsen.
And this is what happened to our daughter. She was bit by a deer tick when she was a child. There were was not a tell-tale bulls-eye rash. Despite many lab tests, her Lymes went misdiagnosed for many painful years. Caitlin suffered from fatigue, unexplained rashes, infections, bronchitis, migraines, and other debilitating symptoms. Her body was losing the battle against stealth-like, disease-producing microbes. Over time, her symptoms intensified. She began to have joint pain, fevers, swollen lymph nodes, small blood vessel inflammations, night sweats and tachcardia. She became unable to sleep well at night. She went to scores of specialists, who gave many different diagnoses, none of which made sense. After tons of lab work Caitlin received a diagnosis of Chronic Lyme’s Disease. Along with a severe co-infection of Bartonella.
Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete called Borrelia. It changes shapes and moves into different tissues and compartments and can change forms to evade being killed. Bartonella are bacteria that live primarily inside the lining of the blood vessels. Both form biofilms and cysts, making the bacteria difficult to kill. A person with a co-infection experiences more symptoms, and a longer recovery. For more information please look at: www.lymedisease.org.
By the winter of 2018 Caitlin became bedridden, unable to attend her college classes. She began to have cognitive and neurological symptoms. Caitlin's pain is unrelenting.
After all the expenses involved in arriving at a diagnosis. After all the frustration and pain. There is now hope. She's accepted into treatment by a rheumatologist out of Yale. One considered the leading doctor in beating Lyme. His patients have a very high recovery rate. And we have confidence that he will do the same for Caitlin.
Chronic Lyme and Bartonella usually takes two years of monthly treatment to recover. The treatments are expensive, not covered by insurance, and out of pocket for the patients.
We pray every day for our child’s recovery. We're asking for any help towards covering her treatment expenses. Any donation of any size is a huge help.
If you would be so kind, please help us share this Go Fund Me Page with others. It’s crucial to successful recovery of our daughter. We need to reach as many potential contributors as possible.
Bless you, and thank you for your consideration and support.
Caitlin’s Mom, Dad, and Brother: Diana, Les, and Ian McLean
We, as her family, we ask you from the bottoms of our hearts; please help us fight to cure our daughter.
Lyme infection, if not caught and treated early, can be devastating. It compromises the immune system. The tick bite can bring on several different other types of serious infections. It can leave a person weak, bedridden, with little quality of life.
This is the state of our daughter is in. It kills us to watch her suffering each new day.
Effective treatments of Lyme in the early stages is a common offering. It's covered by insurance. Lyme that goes undetected or misdiagnosed requires specific treatments from medical specialists. These treatments are rarely covered by health insurance.
Lyme and it’s co-infections can often go undetected. They share many common symptoms with other conditions. And as such, Lyme often sneaks under the radar and the conditions continue to worsen.
And this is what happened to our daughter. She was bit by a deer tick when she was a child. There were was not a tell-tale bulls-eye rash. Despite many lab tests, her Lymes went misdiagnosed for many painful years. Caitlin suffered from fatigue, unexplained rashes, infections, bronchitis, migraines, and other debilitating symptoms. Her body was losing the battle against stealth-like, disease-producing microbes. Over time, her symptoms intensified. She began to have joint pain, fevers, swollen lymph nodes, small blood vessel inflammations, night sweats and tachcardia. She became unable to sleep well at night. She went to scores of specialists, who gave many different diagnoses, none of which made sense. After tons of lab work Caitlin received a diagnosis of Chronic Lyme’s Disease. Along with a severe co-infection of Bartonella.
Lyme disease is caused by a spirochete called Borrelia. It changes shapes and moves into different tissues and compartments and can change forms to evade being killed. Bartonella are bacteria that live primarily inside the lining of the blood vessels. Both form biofilms and cysts, making the bacteria difficult to kill. A person with a co-infection experiences more symptoms, and a longer recovery. For more information please look at: www.lymedisease.org.
By the winter of 2018 Caitlin became bedridden, unable to attend her college classes. She began to have cognitive and neurological symptoms. Caitlin's pain is unrelenting.
After all the expenses involved in arriving at a diagnosis. After all the frustration and pain. There is now hope. She's accepted into treatment by a rheumatologist out of Yale. One considered the leading doctor in beating Lyme. His patients have a very high recovery rate. And we have confidence that he will do the same for Caitlin.
Chronic Lyme and Bartonella usually takes two years of monthly treatment to recover. The treatments are expensive, not covered by insurance, and out of pocket for the patients.
We pray every day for our child’s recovery. We're asking for any help towards covering her treatment expenses. Any donation of any size is a huge help.
If you would be so kind, please help us share this Go Fund Me Page with others. It’s crucial to successful recovery of our daughter. We need to reach as many potential contributors as possible.
Bless you, and thank you for your consideration and support.
Caitlin’s Mom, Dad, and Brother: Diana, Les, and Ian McLean
Organizer
Diana Woolf McLean
Organizer
Wilmington, DE