https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSsZMDL0s4w
My name is Rebecca. Before there was Lyme there was a small ranch in Colorado where I raised fiber goats, and spun yarn. I spent more time in the barn than I did in the house. That was my "happy place" or as a psychologist might refer my "safe space". Once I left Colorado my "happy place" was grooming. Now I don't know that I have a "happy place". I am at peace as well as content. I do find joy and gratitude in each day but I don't really have anything that I'm am all consuming and passionate about. The exception may be spreading awareness about Lyme. My "safe place" is a private support group, from Mississippi, on Facebook, where I find friendship, love, compassion, understanding and support. They are my family. My blessing. I do believe other people understand to the degree they are capable of comprehending; however, unless you have lived in a body riddled with Lyme and multiple co-infections you will never fully understand the disease.
The day I received my Lyme diagnosis from Advanced Labs was one of the happiest days of my life. For the 2 1/2 years prior to my diagnosis I desperately tried to convince my doctors I had Lyme. If not Lyme I was positive it came from the barn. I became ill in 2009. Since that time I had one curious illness after another. One misdiagnosis after the other. Now I have answers. One doctor, one mistake forever changed my life. There were countless opportunities for other doctors or dentists to get it right. Sadly, they did not. Tragically, I am not the only one this has happened to. The truth is it should not happen to anyone.
I've lived a full life. I've done everything I have ever wanted to do. Seen nearly every place I wanted to see. My children are grown. I suppose it will be Lyme that finishes my story. Until that day, I have a new purpose. I intend to Resist, Insist and Persist in spreading Lyme awareness so that those who have walked this path before me can R.I.P. and the numbers who follow become fewer. I have always told my children in the end it may not matter how many hearts you touch that makes the biggest difference but perhaps those you left untouched. I'vc reminded them to leave no heart untouched. If sharing my story helps even one single person get that critical early diagnosis then I will have finished living a life well lived. I will have done my best to leave no heart untouched.
Warm blessings to each of you. The past has faded into yesterday. Tomorrow is not yet here. Too many people carry the burdens of the past on their hearts and worry about tomorrow. No one has any guarantees on how many tomorrows they have. This moment is your gift. Live it fully.
http://underourskin.vhx.tv/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSsZMDL0s4w
My name is Rebecca. Before there was Lyme there was a small ranch in Colorado where I raised fiber goats, and spun yarn. I spent more time in the barn than I did in the house. That was my "happy place" or as a psychologist might refer my "safe space". Once I left Colorado my "happy place" was grooming. Now I don't know that I have a "happy place". I am at peace as well as content. I do find joy and gratitude in each day but I don't really have anything that I'm am all consuming and passionate about. The exception may be spreading awareness about Lyme. My "safe place" is a private support group, from Mississippi, on Facebook, where I find friendship, love, compassion, understanding and support. They are my family. My blessing. I do believe other people understand to the degree they are capable of comprehending; however, unless you have lived in a body riddled with Lyme and multiple co-infections you will never fully understand the disease.
The day I received my Lyme diagnosis from Advanced Labs was one of the happiest days of my life. For the 2 1/2 years prior to my diagnosis I desperately tried to convince my doctors I had Lyme. If not Lyme I was positive it came from the barn. I became ill in 2009. Since that time I had one curious illness after another. One misdiagnosis after the other. Now I have answers. One doctor, one mistake forever changed my life. There were countless opportunities for other doctors or dentists to get it right. Sadly, they did not. Tragically, I am not the only one this has happened to. The truth is it should not happen to anyone.
I've lived a full life. I've done everything I have ever wanted to do. Seen nearly every place I wanted to see. My children are grown. I suppose it will be Lyme that finishes my story. Until that day, I have a new purpose. I intend to Resist, Insist and Persist in spreading Lyme awareness so that those who have walked this path before me can R.I.P. and the numbers who follow become fewer. I have always told my children in the end it may not matter how many hearts you touch that makes the biggest difference but perhaps those you left untouched. I'vc reminded them to leave no heart untouched. If sharing my story helps even one single person get that critical early diagnosis then I will have finished living a life well lived. I will have done my best to leave no heart untouched.
Warm blessings to each of you. The past has faded into yesterday. Tomorrow is not yet here. Too many people carry the burdens of the past on their hearts and worry about tomorrow. No one has any guarantees on how many tomorrows they have. This moment is your gift. Live it fully.
http://underourskin.vhx.tv/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSsZMDL0s4w
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