Although invisible to most, watching what Lucy has gone through the last 4 years has been incredibly rough. As her mother, I have felt so much sadness watching her suffer.

After searching for answers for years (going to dozens and dozens of doctors and getting every possible test under the sun, including hundreds of blood tests), she was diagnosed with late-stage Lyme Complex.

She has 2 forms of Lyme disease and 4 associated co-infections that have overwhelmed her immune system and left her with an array of complex symptoms, like constant muscle pain, kidney issues, cognitive dysfunction, heart palpitations, dizziness, fever, exhaustion, and on and on!

If you have had the pleasure of knowing Lucy when she's been healthy, you know she is the absolute life and soul of any party, class, group, or neighborhood. You would find yourself laughing all day long at the stories, perspective, and humor that she freely shares. Everywhere she goes, she connects with people and extends a hand of friendship. She is fiercely inclusive and holds no judgments. The number of people that she has met at the store, on a walk, or even the mechanic shop who have shown up to family dinners, Sunday afternoon music concerts, or just joined her on a hike in the canyon has left us in awe at her capacity to love. She pulls people into her circle at every chance!

This is one of the reasons why the last few years have been painfully difficult for Lucy. Since her mission in West Virginia (where she likely contracted the first form of Lyme), she has been forced to slow down, isolate, withdraw, and just survive these many intense and fluctuating symptoms. Weeks and months at a time have felt incredibly lonely and hopeless. These symptoms have dominated her life, and she has had nowhere to turn for answers—unable to function for more than couple of hours a day.

She has tried many treatments (the best there is to offer locally), but they have not been able to cure the complexity of this illness.

After exhausting every option, we've finally found a path forward — but we can't do it without help.

She was recently referred to the Lyme clinic. The doctors are leading experts in Lyme disease and part of the International Lyme Association.

No treatments or appointments have been covered by insurance and without the means to pay for this clinic, she has no way forward. This 5-week program that has helped over 5,000 people recover.

The clinic is going to cost around $55k for treatments, stay, labs, and the surgery she needs.

Lucy is the first to help others, but this is a time when she needs help.

This is her path to healing and hope in her future—to get her life back so she can move forward.

She would be able to get in as soon as October 6th , through a connection who put her in direct contact with the leading doctor at the clinic.

We are deeply appreciative of the time you have taken to read this and any help you can offer Lucy.