Miss America Contestant Says Lyme Disease “the Worst Experience of My Life”
Miss America Contestant Says Lyme Disease “the Worst Experience of My Life”
Miss Delaware, Rebecca Jackson, says Lyme disease left her unable to walk, read and in debilitating pain for several months. Named by the Lyme Research Alliance as its Person of the Month, Jackson says she hopes to increase awareness of the illness and urges Lyme sufferers to “never give up hope.”
Stamford, CT (PRWEB) August 06, 2013 When recently crowned Miss Delaware, Rebecca Jackson, walks out on the stage of the Miss America pageant on September 15, it will represent far more than her triumph over other contestants in her state—it will mark her overcoming debilitating Lyme disease. The 21-year-old University of Delaware student, named by Lyme Research Alliance as its Person of the Month, not only dealt with a severe bout of Lyme seven years ago that left her “a shell of myself”—unable to walk and read for months—but she was infected again last summer and needed to undergo additional treatments. Read more.