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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: Numb - an interview with Grace Anderson
Description: Grace Anderson is a 21-year-old Lyme disease advocate from the coast of Maine. She's currently studying mental health and human services.
Ms. Anderson first became sick with symptoms of Lyme when she was 12 at a Taylor Swift concert with the following symptoms: dizziness, nausea, swollen feet, excessive sweating, and vomiting. These symptoms quickly subsided, but they came back a month later and never went away with the addition of migraines, fatigue, difficulty walking, full body pain, and body weakness.
Ms. Anderson tested positive for Hashimoto's disease and the rest of her symptoms were dismissed as "...