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A Scholarship Opportunity for Students with Chronic Lyme Disease!

3/26/2017

Having a chronic illness like Lyme Disease is expensive, and the financial burden often leaves patients making tough decisions about their education. That's why I am so excited to share this Chronic Lyme Disease Scholarship! This scholarship is open to both high school and college students and was created by Nate Preston, an attorney who has a personal connection to Lyme Disease. Nate has several close family members who struggle with the illness, and after seeing the physical, emotional, and financial damage of the disease he wanted to give back. This is such a selfless act, and one which will truly help a student in need.

Who is eligible?
One winner will be chosen for this scholarship. Candidates must be a student who has suffered from chronic Lyme disease. Applications are open to current college students as well as high school seniors, who are accepted to or currently enrolled in a college or university within the United States.

How much is the Scholarship?
$1,000. This $1,000 scholarship is designed to ease the financial burdens of one student each year who has spent a great deal of money in medical expenses for the treatment of chronic Lyme disease.

How is the winner chosen?
The award will be based upon academic achievement, school & community activities, and an essay of 500-1000 words describing how Lyme disease has affected the student’s life, especially in regards to their values and educational and career goals.

Where can I enter?
Visit this link HERE.

The best news? This scholarship will be offered yearly!
This years application deadline closes April 30th, and the winner will be selected by mid-May 2017.

Good luck to all who enter!

xoxo,
Christina

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Balanced Health Is Offering FREE Lyme Disease Assessment & Treatment - May 30 Deadline!

5/13/2016

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Balanced Health - Living With Lyme Fund

Lyme Disease is confusing, expensive, and painful. An innovative company is doing it’s best to give back to the community in which it was founded upon. In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness Month, Balanced Health is awarding $2000 worth of services to those in need! This national company specializing in scanning and holistic services is searching for one new client to take on free of charge for three months.

Balanced Health has helped numerous chronically ill clients feel better and now they’d like to take it one step further by helping with the cost. The Living with Lyme Fund is a program established by Balanced Health that awards one individual three months of services, products, and consults.

Owner, Samantha Stupak, lived through the expensive battle of Lyme Disease. She spent over $100,000 on trying to figure out what was wrong with her and the treatments to help get her life back. She knows first hand how debilitating and expensive chronic illness can be. When she was able to help herself get well, she founded Balanced Health, with a hope to help others around the world.

Apply NOW through May 30th, 2016 to have the chance to be chosen to win 3 months of scans, consults, and products from Balanced Health at no cost! This is roughly a $2000 value! What Balanced Health is looking for is someone who physically needs help and is willing to share their story.

Every U.S. Resident is eligible and encouraged to apply. All of Balanced Health’s scanning is done by mailing hair and saliva samples using a provided kit. All consults are done over the phone or via Skype. This makes it possible for anyone in the U.S. to be a client. There are two ways to apply:

Video record yourself and email it to [email protected] or post it to their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/creatingbalancedhealth

OR

Write a 500 word essay and send to [email protected]

In the video or essay please share your story, why you need the help, and what you are looking forward to doing once you feel well again. Don’t delay in sending your story as a winner will be picked and announced May 31st, the last day of Lyme Disease Awareness Month!

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Lyme Disease Co-Infections Poll 2016

5/8/2016

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For Lyme Disease awareness month I wanted to do something a bit different, and hold some polls that patients can answer and give input on. These polls are about co-infections, to see which of them are most prevalent for those with Lyme disease. I'm also doing these polls on twitter, but a bit differently (because of how it runs), and there I am putting a new poll out daily and giving my followers 3 days to respond. But on my blog they will be all available at once; I will have this poll open here (with all questions) from now until the end of May. So please do share this post!

These polls are anonymous, so I won't know who voted or how anyone voted. It will simply just give an idea of which co-infections and issues are most common. When all the votes are in at the end of May I will have a post sharing the results with all of you, so you can see what is most common in other patients. I will also have some guests post coming up in June about some of the less well known co-infections from patients/practitioners who can explain & speak about them. What I am noticing is that not all infections are equal in prevalence, however there is a large gap in much needed info about the lesser known ones. I hope this poll will be an outlet to recruit knowledgeable individuals to share about different co-infections so we can all learn more about them together. Thank you for everyone's help and input on this project!

POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED AS OF JUNE 1, 2016

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Inanna House: First In-Patient Lyme care Facility

8/10/2012

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DISCLAIMER: I do not run Inanna House, and have no direct affiliation with them. If you would like to contact those who run Inanna House directly please go to: www.inannahouse.org

I have received comments & emails asking for admissions, so before you read further know this is just an informative post. Again, I have no affiliation with Inanna House.

I count my blessings a million times over. I could not imagine enduring what I have & what I will endure in the future without my parents. They make me every meal when I am lifeless, make sure I get all my meds, & give me constant 100% support. I'm one of the few who have this quiet peaceful retreat to recover in with a family that loves me & have gone into debt to afford my care.

For all of this I thank God. With my birthday being Sunday I reflected back on gifts I received. All materialistic items that are great, but I can live without them. "Health is true wealth, not pieces of gold & silver."

This brings me to my point about an amazing project that's being created by Mara Williams called the Inanna House. This will be the first non profit in patient Lyme treatment facility. People who need medical care the most for this fatal disease will now be able to receive it. I took the highlights from the fundraising website & condensed it below to get a better understanding. The Inanna House plans to be in locations across the US, but the first will be in Sonoma County, California.

A Retreat Style Center with 24 Private Rooms with Baths for In-patient stay, built on 14-15 Acres of viable land.

24 Hour Care and monitoring as patients undergo individualized treatment plans, incorporating all worlds of medicine to acheive optimal re-integration and healing, which would address each aspect of the individual: Mind, Body, and Sprit.

The Center will incorporate Green Energy to make it as self-sustainable as possible.

An In-House Organic Garden big enough to feed all residents and provide patients with a necessary "Clean, Alkaline Diet" to aid them in their recovery.

A $20 Million Dollar Endowment Fund for individuals who can't pay for treatment but desperately need it.

Fees that are on a sliding scale basis, and a "Give Back" Program so that those who have received treatment and recovered have the opportunity to come back and help give patients who are currently being treated hope, guidance, and support.

A Program specifically designed to help care-takers understand exactly what their loved ones are going through, and how Lyme disease and its co-infections are effecting them. This program will also give specific instructions so that care-takers will also know how they can help their loved ones recover.

Inanna house will train physicians properly for them to become Lyme Literate doctors.

Donation Page to Share: http://www.indiegogo.com/InannaHouse

To learn more about what other amazing features and specific therapies the center intends on offering, please visit their website at:

http://www.inannahouse.org/our-vision.html

Currently there is fundraising going on for this project with 22 days left to reach the $20,000 goal. As I looked around at all this stuff I had received, I knew in my heart I had to return what I could & instead of gifts ask for family & friends to donate that money to this cause. This fundraising is fixed which means if they don't reach the $20,000 goal, all the money will be returned to the donors. I really hope everyone of you can at least take a look at the site to read about how amazing it is, and share with friends. You can choose to contribute, or just by simply passing it along you are doing so much.

This is near & dear to my heart and I hope Mara Williams dream will come alive. It will be a huge step for patients everywhere. Such a vision & blessing to help those who need it the most.

Thanks friends! :)

Xoxo,
Christina

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Funding for Lyme Testing

5/14/2012

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Exciting news for the Lyme community! A friend shared this link which made me SO excited. Specialized tests through iGenX, Fry laboratories, & a few other smaller labs are extremely expensive. They are the most accurate tests out there, but not covered by insurance. A lot of patients can't afford to pay the $400 or more to get them run, leading them to not get a proper diagnosis.

Recently iGenX made a huge donation to start a program up called Lyme-TAP (Test Access Program). This program provides funding to patients nationwide to be able to get these tests. It's working on a first come first serve basis, and children under 18 are a priority. This program covers up to 75% of the cost, which is HUGE! Nothing of the sort has come about in the Lyme community, so they are leading the way to pave the road for other labs to get on board. Getting a diagnosis is the hardest part, and many times the cost of testing is a major deterrent.

Another step in the right direction :)

www.lymetap.com

God bless,

Christina

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A Scholarship Opportunity for Students with Chronic Lyme Disease!

Balanced Health Is Offering FREE Lyme Disease Assessment & Treatment - May 30 Deadline!

Balanced Health - Living With Lyme Fund

Lyme Disease Co-Infections Poll 2016

Co-Infections Poll

Inanna House: First In-Patient Lyme care Facility

Funding for Lyme Testing

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A Scholarship Opportunity for Students with Chronic Lyme Disease!

Balanced Health Is Offering FREE Lyme Disease Assessment & Treatment - May 30 Deadline!

Balanced Health - Living With Lyme Fund

Lyme Disease Co-Infections Poll 2016

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Inanna House: First In-Patient Lyme care Facility

Funding for Lyme Testing

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