Category: Inspirations

Amanda M. Fairbanks is an award-winning journalist and author of The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Columbia Journalism Review, Air Mail, and the East Hampton Star.

Fred Diamond, Lyme podcast host and author of Love, Hope, Lyme: What family members, partners and friends who love a chronic Lyme survivor need to know, joins this beautiful episode of the LYME TIME podcast today.

The latest episode of the Lyme Time podcast dives deep into the teen years of Rachel Leland and her sudden onset of Lyme disease as a young athlete. Through detailed journaling, Rachel’s story tells us how this disease took hold of her youth and destroyed life as she knew it. Her family had no idea what was happening to Rachel and her illness took a toll on their dynamic to the point of multiple hospitalizations for various reasons.

Sometimes you can wait months for an important doctor visit, and it can be taxing on your body, mind and spirit. Join Dr. David Weill and Ali on this new episode of Lyme Time as they discuss how to talk to your doctor.