Skiier Angeli Vanlaanen On Living With Lyme Disease

Skiier Angeli Vanlaanen On Living With Lyme Disease

After 14 years of misdiagnosis, the Olympic hopeful is back in the game. Long before the day she passed out in her chairlift, Angeli VanLaanen, 27, had been searching for answers: Why had she felt so sick for so many years? Why was her otherwise healthy and athletic body suddenly failing her? And why couldn’t her doctors figure out the heck was going on? As it turns out, the professional skier and 2009 World Cup Superpipe champion had been living with Lyme disease. “I suspect I contracted [it] when I was about 10 years old,” she tells GrindTV. “That’s when I started feeling the symptoms.” For 14 years, doctors had misdiagnosed VanLaanen, leaving her to fight a constant battle against the fatigue and soreness that threatened her impressive skiing career. Read more.