“My family needs me, the world needs me. Please help if you can.”
It takes a lot of courage to ask for help, and it is not something the patients we have met or worked with do lightly or easily. For many, it takes months or years beyond the point of really needing help to finally be ready to ask for it…or, more likely, to no longer have a choice.
“Dealing with a life altering chronic pain and illness is like grieving for the death of someone close to you, except you are grieving for yourself and what you are unable to do now.”
Kate is about to embark on a very big and very far away chapter in her recovery. Hers will be an international migration for care, and across the Rockies and beyond there are a touching number of Lyme patients pulling for her, excited and hopeful for this chapter to bring her the most that it possibly can toward her recovery.
Kate Lamport, Helena MT
Continue reading Kate’s Story ~ And a new and far away chapter in a local patient’s recovery
Posted with permission. This is not from the Northern Rockies, but clearly applicable to all of us. Thank you Melissa.
I don’t want to just go away.
I want to live!
I have a lot to offer this world.
I am not just a number or face in a massive population.
I am a mother, daughter, wife, sister, aunt, friend who has a giving heart and creative mind.
Please.
My life matters.
I am here for such a time as this.
As we said in part one, there are a LOT of moms living with Lyme disease in Rocky Mountain states and provinces. Some contracted Lyme here, some did not, and some don’t know, but we all face unnecessary obstacles to diagnosis and care that could be reduced or eliminated through better awareness, better treatment guidelines, and better policies and application of guidelines in our respective local areas.
Continue reading Rocky Mountain Moms With Lyme, Part Two ~ Happy Mother’s Day!
These moms and many more are living with Lyme Disease in Northern Rocky Mountain states. Just surviving this illness makes them all heroes. But the longer they live with this illness, the more they learn, and the more people they reach, in their communities and beyond.
Please note that there are many more than those mentioned here making a difference. This is just a starter set, because May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and because we are heading toward Mother’s Day.
Continue reading Rocky Mountain Moms With Lyme, Part One ~ Making A Difference
Northern Rockies Lyme Disease Coalition 