Maine: Lyme Disease Resource

Within these groups of individuals across the United States and other countries, there are fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and so forth. As Dr. Jemsek states, “sooner or later” your family will be affected by this growing disease and you, too, will be trying to make a difference.

“In the Lymelight” ~ Lyme Disease Resource

Jenna is a daughter, mother, grandmother, and author of the action/adventure novel, The Goddess of Sumer. Once she was an accomplished and successful entrepreneur, and equestrian. With no college degree, Corporate Kids grew to over 200 employees. She was also a silver and bronze medalist as a competitive dressage rider. Jenna, a couple weeks later, (after her victory lap as pictured in her photo) came down with a mysterious “flu-like” illness.

Within weeks Jenna went from daily riding workouts to spending her days bedridden in a darkened room. Sadly, her family was forced to sell their farm due to the severity of her illness and the excessive cost of treatment which was not covered by insurance.

She recalls, “What really frightened me was the combination of symptoms – acute abdominal pain, body aches and chills, itchy rash, joint pain, profound weakness, debilitating sensitivity to light and sound, repeated migraines, dizziness, brain fog and wild mood swings – all of which I had suffered with over the years at different times – but separately. Previous doctor visits and medical tests revealed nothing, and the symptoms always resolved themselves so I stopped going to the doctor when something flared up. I never dreamed it was all tied together – and I didn’t know a thing about Lyme Disease (other than the risk to horses!)”

“If you’ve suffered with Lyme disease, you know how frustrating and depressing it can be – especially for someone active like me. Food shopping, laundry and household chores never even registered on my daily list – I just squeezed them in between riding gardening, managing a working horse farm and a mortgage business – now I have to plan a whole day to do laundry and I still haven’t the strength to leave the house let alone run errands.”

As Jenna struggled through the roller-coaster of good days and bad days, she tried to utilize any clear days to research as much as possible about the disease, and any life-style and diet changes recommended for beating illness. Her websites, Lyme Disease Resource and Jenna’s Blog, are the result of that effort. “It was so frustrating to find a list of suggestions, and then have to search for the web for the right products. I found a lot of great information in a great many places, but felt that a central resource site would help other people – especially for those who suspect they have Lyme disease.”

Jenna’s Full Lyme Story